Sentence examples for odious conduct from inspiring English sources

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During a news conference Thursday, Liu Jianchao, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, described the House measure as "odious conduct" and said the United States should stop "making use of so-called religious and human rights" issues to score political points, Agence France-Presse reported.

It was also before the events of last week, when China restricted Internet access for reporters covering the Games (only to lift some restrictions following an uproar from the news media) and accused American lawmakers of "odious conduct" for making an issue of its human rights record.

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They're effective thorns in the side of the established parties, even though frequently sidelined, even gagged using John Prescott's odious "Code of Conduct" for councillors.

What is particularly odious about this man's conduct is the contemptuous disregard he has for the American people.

Uganda's behaviour is odious.

It's the odious and fawning way that golf people conduct themselves in the presence of the professional players or the R&A officials, who all seem to resemble the male staff of Grace Brothers in Are You Being Served?. Golfing society is more deferential than the Queen's garden party.

You may remember Kelly for her rightfully challenging Trump on the ample number of odious things he's said about women – not to mention Trump later explaining her conduct as having sprung from "blood coming out of her wherever".

A day after Gary Lineker was tweet-tweaked by QPR midfielder Joey Barton as an "odious little toad" – because of his comments on Barton's weekend sending-off for violent conduct – he was confirmed as lead presenter, fronting three and a half hours of peak-time coverage on BBC1 daily throughout London 2012.

In the lawsuit, Timiriasieff described the hospital's conduct as "outrageous and beyond the bounds of human decency as to be regarded as odious and utterly intolerable in a civilized community".

Teach for America is also a partner as well as the fairly odious "National Council of Teacher Quality," a self-appointed watchdog of teacher "quality" whose signature "study" of teacher preparation quality was conducted by reading online course catalog materials.

Something odious.

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