Sentence examples for hypocritical notion from inspiring English sources

But don't let that hypocritical notion put you off watching the royals speak in six different languages in the clip below (you'll need to dive in around the 5.40 minute mark to see them in action).

The practice is based upon corporate "free speech" rights and the hypocritical notion that these advertisements "educate" the consumer.

The book details the enormous economic damage done to India by the Empire, takes apart the hypocritical notion that some of what the British did in India was for "the good of India", and calls for an end to the monumental ignorance surrounding the subject.

It argued that, with the possibility of a sovereign default by the superpower, "such alarming days when the destinies of others are in the hands of a hypocritical nation have to be terminated".That notion attracts some sympathy in South-East Asia but few would want an American-led international order to give way to one dominated by China.

"Choosing to use social media as a platform to tell people social media is a lie is hypocritical and contradicts the very same notion.

Mr. Carney rejected the notion that Mr. Obama was hypocritical for asserting executive privilege even though as a senator he had criticized President George W. Bush for making a similar assertion when Democrats were investigating the Justice Department.

Yet their sense of kinship with Iraqis in Falluja, Najaf and elsewhere runs deeper than any pull toward abstract notions of democracy offered by the Americans -- notions that to them appear increasingly hypocritical given the reliance of the occupiers on overwhelming force as a means to an end.

"I think anybody who says his platform or ideas or notions are impossible or unrealistic is hypocritical," Grant, who also serves a co-chair of South Carolina's Young Leaders for Bernie, says.

Nearly all share Holmes's view that the public purposes asserted for laws, like supposedly objective notions of right and wrong, are often hypocritical masks for raw power struggles.

The primal Foucauldian move is to locate abstract and universal rights, reason, and the notion of the human within concrete social practices, and show how they were coercive or hypocritical — or sadistic — from the start.

THE accepted notion that directors have no concern with the market price of their stock is as fallacious as it is hypocritical.