Sentence examples for provokes disapproval from inspiring English sources

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Lolita still provokes disapproval and controversy not because of the explicitness of its sexual passages, which are restrained by today's standards, but because they describe a relationship between a mature man and a girl well under the age of consent, this being one of the few kinds of sexual behaviour that are almost universally anathematised and punished by law.

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The initial round of questions and responses provoked disapproval, a few pointed fingers and sporadic shows of humility from the witnesses.

The depiction of Max's home life and his impulsive, aggressive behavior seem almost designed to provoke disapproval from some concerned, hypercritical party or another, even if those opening scenes of domestic chaos also elicit a flicker of pained recognition.

CHICAGO — After enduring seven years of beatings from her husband, a young Yemeni-American woman recently fled to a local shelter, only to find that the heavy black head scarf she wore as an observant Muslim provoked disapproval.

The decision provoked disapproval among the judiciary and from the public; a correspondent wrote: Dear Sir: You are a disgrace to all mankind to let these women break up homes and expect us chaps to keep them while they rob us of what we have worked for and put us out on the street.

Sponsors will stick with champions as long as they remain within the law but large investments in proven cheats tend to provoke the disapproval of shareholders.

But the woman, who gave only her first name, Rivka, for fear of provoking the disapproval of her neighbors, also told a story that revealed the costs of separation: one night, the extremists came and removed all the public benches from the neighborhood, so that the women could no longer sit outside with their children in the street.

He had, however, become critical of the development of Marxist thought and provoked the disapproval of the ruling Communist Party officials; the journal Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, which he edited from 1953, was suppressed, he was forbidden to publish, and in 1957 his works were condemned.

Because of his reputation, Origen was much in demand as a preacher, a circumstance that provoked the disapproval of Demetrius, bishop of Alexandria, who was anxious to control this free lay teacher and especially angry when Origen was allowed to preach at Caesarea Palestinae.

As a young woman, Nawal provokes the violent disapproval of her family when she falls love with a Muslim and flees her hometown for the capital.

Self-reflection at first notices objective as well as subjective willing, but when the object has been completely represented, viz., the individual will as a member or relatum of a will-relation, then this complete representation of the object also provokes approval or disapproval as an immediate "aesthetic" effect.

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