Mr. Monti said he shuddered at the idea that the world of professional soccer, which should value sportsmanslike conduct, had become mired in reprehensible qualities like "treachery, illegality and falseness," and known for its hooligan supporters.
LONDON — A British network of more than 40 part-time Islamic schools and clubs with 5,000 students has been teaching from a Saudi Arabian government curriculum that contains anti-Semitic and homophobic views, including a textbook that asks children to list the "reprehensible" qualities of Jews, according to a BBC documentary broadcast on Monday.
But that was before Monday's Panorama programme about 40 Muslim weekend clubs and schools in the UK using Saudi textbooks that, among other niceties, describe Jews as descended from "monkeys" and "pigs", denigrate nonbelievers, advocate killing homosexuals and refer to the "reprehensible qualities of Jews".
Imam al-Ghazali says of the Sufis: "The aim of their knowledge is to lop off the obstacles present in the soul and to rid oneself of its reprehensible habits and vicious qualities in order to attain thereby a heart empty of all save God and adorned with the constant remembrance of God".
As your numbers plummet dramatically in the polls, your supporters desert you, and your staff makes news for tell-all disclosures and foul mouthed rants, I look like a wise parent for all the advice I've given my kids over the years about how to live an upstanding life and not be a morally reprehensible human being: qualities that you continue to demonstrate against so effectively.
To describe a human being no matter what size as a "scrap" is reprehensible, and the discussion of the "quality" of a child seems Orwellian.
If Jackass was the Velvet Underground of people filming their friends doing stupid things, then Bumfights was the genre's GG Allin nihilistic, morally reprehensible, and devoid of any redeeming qualities whatsoever.
"Not only were Sen. DeMint's remarks reprehensible and irresponsible, but they add nothing to the dialogue on quality public education, or on the preparation, ability and skill of teachers".
The debatable nature of the penalty itself, the arguably boring quality of the game, the impossible task of the referee, the reprehensible anger of Felipao - that's not football?
If the work the social workers had done was of poor quality and their arguments biased, as the judge concluded in his summing up of the case, that is reprehensible.
