All sorts of actions that distort and disparage heroes and martyrs, challenge just conscience, derange value judgments, and cause the public indignation and vigilance of the whole society.

But he did so without ever seeming to despise his opponents or disparage their intentions. Obama s aides have confessed that he modeled his own election program on the sunny and optimistic decency of the Republican actor.

Environmentalists make several arguments for leaving the bitumen in the dirt. They disparage hideous strip mines and toxic tailing ponds that even superstar marketers cannot greenwash. 160 The scale is unusual, but open pit mines and tailing ponds are normal mining operations everywhere.

It has recently become fashionable to disparage the economic performance of the large emerging countries, particularly China and the other BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, and India). But it is hardly a surprise that these countries are no longer growing as fast as they once did.

LONDON From blaming him for the renewed collapse of the Greek economy to accusing him of illegally plotting Greece s exit from the eurozone, it has become fashionable to disparage Yanis Varoufakis, the country s former finance minister. While I have never met or spoken to him, I believe that he is getting a bad rap (and increasingly so).

To loud cheers from the crowds, the populists damn elected politicians as thieves and looters, but in the process disparage the institutions and processes of representative government. In the not too distant past, widespread denigration of this sort in Africa, Latin America, and other parts of South Asia often made it easier for populist authoritarianism to take hold.

g Section 267 of the Criminal Code provides (1) Any person who violates the personal honour of another by offensive words or conduct or by making or spreading allegations of an act likely to disparage him in the esteem of his fellow citizens, shall be liable to a fine or imprisonment for any term not exceeding four months.

Some Jews take words out of their context and say, We have heard, but we disobey, or Hear without listening. And they say Look at us, twisting the phrase with their tongues so as to disparage religion. But if they had said, We hear and we obey, and Listen to us and look at us with favour, that would have been better and more proper for them. God has rejected them for their defiance so that they shall not believe, except a few of them.

Some Jews take words out of their context and say, We have heard, but we disobey, or Hear without listening. And they say Look at us, twisting the phrase with their tongues so as to disparage religion. But if they had said, We hear and we obey, and Listen to us and look at us with favour, that would have been better and more proper for them. God has rejected them for their defiance so that they shall not believe, except a few of them.