Sentence examples for in derisory from inspiring English sources

Mr. Pawlenty, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, described the logic of the stimulus program in derisory terms: "We're going to take a dollar from you in the private sector, bring it into government, spin it around, take 5 to 20 percent for overhead, and redeploy it into the private economy and call that growth".

He admitted that some small amount of Na+ transport could be possible, but in derisory proportions.

This distinguished crew either do not figure in the 1929 poll, or clock in with derisory counts (Joyce gets fewer than 10 votes – alongside Max Beerbohm, it's pleasing to note).

And I mean that in no way, in a derisory way, to Mr. McMahon.

The point being, school will teach you to think of addiction in a derisory way, which will in turn make you treat addicts in a derisory fashion.

He denounces "the brainless people in Washington" and repeatedly calls Mr. Bush "this guy" in a derisory tone.

One of those words that you strongly sense those involved in football only know because of its use by those involved in football, "derisory" is the put-down of choice when it comes to opening bids.

Monarchists like Dryden used the word in a derisory way: "Never was Patriot yet, but was a Fool".

I see them as having a larger-than-life-size iniquity, in the derisory shade of a tree you could not even hang yourself on".

And our government takes in a derisory number of the most vulnerable, makes vague promises and robotically talks about funding refugee camps in Syria – camps that cannot save people from daily bomb attacks.

The committee's report also called for an increase in the "derisory" fines averaging £100 for the unlawful trading of personal data, and the establishment of a robust registration system for investigators.