Sentence examples for hypocritical position from inspiring English sources

Yet dialogue can work only if the United States abandons the hypocritical position of telling others what they must not do while keeping its own options open.

But the judgment of the international community in the wake of the arbitration — despite the hypocritical position of the United States in the matter — may well have more of an effect on the Chinese than people expect, should the panel make a determination favorable to the Philippines.

But Mr. Lagos has announced that he will not speak at the events, and the leader of the Christian Democrats, Andrés Zaldivar, initially said he would not attend at all because "I was opposed to Allende and it would be a hypocritical position".

A spokesman for Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary who released Megrahi in August 2009, when the Libyan was dying of inoperable prostate cancer, said he was freed "on compassionate grounds alone" and "without any consideration of the economic, political and diplomatic factors that the UK Labour government based their hypocritical position on".

This is, of course, a fundamentally hypocritical position to take.

Critics were divided on the track, with some finding Perry to be in a hypocritical position, given the album's other material.

Trump not only violated the embargo but also took ostentatiously hypocritical positions on it.

As demonstrated, the nuclear issue is another example of the U.S. picking an issue on which it has taken the most hypocritical positions.

A few years ago I had a falling out with a friend because I couldn't understand why she'd support Obama, despite what I felt were his (then) hypocritical positions on gay rights (positions he's since made significant progress in reversing).

The problem with keeping silent on these hypocritical positions is that government policies--even in countries where the government is undemocratic--in the long-run often create tacit legitimacy and instinctual acceptance of the values based of which those policies are made.

This hypocritical, reactionary position arguably reinforces the narrow-focused output of mainstream pornography: it's no wonder so much of it is such offensive, sexist shit.