Sentence examples for facing derision from inspiring English sources

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Facing derision, and other inflamed passions, is part of life at the festival.

In the article "Bar Mitzvahs Get New Look to Build Faith," Laurie Goodstein writes about why some Jewish leaders are seeking to reinvent the ritual: The American bar mitzvah, facing derision for Las Vegas style excess, is about to get a full makeover, but for an entirely different reason.

After facing derision for wearing a scrunchie, Clinton now has a personal hair stylist, Isabelle Goetz, who travels with her, styling her hair from 7am, and the presidential nominee was recently spotted at the John Barrett Salon at Bergdorf Goodman in New York, where a haircut costs more than £450.

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Nor do they face derision, as they might in more aggressively secular parts of Europe.

Mr Clarke has faced derision for failing to match the impossible standards of his predecessor.

Women who report their attackers to the police often face derision and even shaming.

Yet even from those who consider themselves to be "lovers, not haters" we have often faced derision and discrimination.

A slang term – "ramène ta fraise" ("get your a** over here") was cited as the reason for why the girl might face derision.

When he was struggling to push cable in the 1970s, he faced derision, not to say obstruction, from the New York-based networks.

At the outset, Ryanair and easyJet faced derision and even — from the established carriers — outright hostility, but it soon became clear that this aggression was fuelled by fear.

She faced derision at an ill-tempered private meeting of Labour MPs on Monday, when she urged colleagues to put iron in their souls.

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