Sentence examples similar to provokes scorn. from inspiring English sources

The idea provoked scorn from many, given the current circumstances in the occupied territories.

A team that, less than a year ago, provoked scorn and mirth has to be taken seriously again.

His rise from humble origins to leader of 1.25 billion people has inspired many – but also provoked scorn from elite politicians who have mocked his background.

The festivities ignored centuries of Islamic rule in Iran, provoking scorn from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, patriarch of the revolution that toppled the shah.

They provoked scorn in my postwar mother, who cared little for keeping chickens or making jam in the sophisticated 1950s and did not believe women should join together.

Whittingdale, who for 10 years was chair of the culture select committee, has previously suggested that the BBC should not be showing popular entertainment shows such as Strictly Come Dancing, an idea that provoked scorn from Bryant.

At the turn of the 20th century, industrialization had forced many of the rural poor into the cities, and France's infant mortality rate had become so high that it provoked scorn from other European countries.

Last week, he provoked scorn from serious commentators by using a $7.5 billion windfall of higher tax revenues not to trim France's debt (as its partners in the euro zone would have liked), nor to cut initiative-sapping higher tax-rates, but to court the favour of the left with tax cuts angled towards the low-paid.

And because the 2009 Cairo University speech ramped up expectations about the president's commitment to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, failure to address this issue now, or to address it only in generalities or with more vague promises "to advance the peace process", risks either deepening mistrust or provoking scorn or rage.

But now, in an experiment that has provoked scorn from the largest firefighters' union and criticism from some elected officials in Queens, the department is trying to speed response times in the borough by shortening the time dispatchers spend on the phone before they send firefighters out the door.

This provoked scorn from some of those affected.