Sentence examples for first scorned from inspiring English sources

The idealism of a generation was first scorned, then shattered.

"Ed Miliband has led calls for a more responsible capitalism and, despite having first scorned Labour's initiative, David Cameron now claims he has become a convert to the cause," he said.

In it, Shaffer traces the history of the paperback, a format that was at first scorned by publishers for being cheap and flimsy.

Her assistant Agnes Monica Raymundd), who is later dispatched to the apartment to pick up the pills, at first scorns and then succumbs to Oliver's seduction attempts.

A generation's worth of lessons have been learned since 1992, when Hillary Clinton, as candidate for first lady, scorned — and earned the scorn of — nonworking mothers with her "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies" comment.

In 1952 Sauvy wrote that "this ignored, exploited, scorned Third World, like the Third Estate, wants to become something, too".

At first scorned by the established churches, the Pentecostal movement has grown to a world movement with strong missionary activity not only in Africa and South America but also Europe.

Kuznetsova scorned the first three, two of them with unforced errors, when Schiavone served at 7-8 and three more two games later.

"Efforts to cobble together a Third Front can be scorned at, but hardly be wished away.

He quotes Thompson's "A snow-crystal is the same today as when the first snows fell": adding "so, too, the basic forces acting upon organisms", and comments that we have forgotten other early twentieth century scientists who scorned evolution.

Mr. Newby, who taught seventh- and eighth-grade math and science, scorned the idea that humans are related to apes.