He told police his wife was cruel, demanding and belittling.
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Political backstabbing, socially undermining someone, publicly belittling others, and ostracism.
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You all sitting here belittling and making [us] feel awful.
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"I had no intentions of belittling my country," she wrote.
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Camille's former friends channel their frustrations into belittling other women.
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Complaints brought retaliation — reassignments, demotions, abrupt firings and belittling remarks.
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"Normally I would not think of 'emotional' as belittling," Adichie writes.
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She was then subjected to months of bullying, intimidation, and belittling.
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Some of these people soured on Trump's delight in belittling associates.
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Trump's constant belittling of Tillerson effectively eradicates that claim to authority.
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And the latest person to share their belittling, transphobic, and trollish comments?
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" Jan: Trump accuses "crooked opponents" of belittling his victory with "FAKE NEWS.
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This phenomenon of unconsciously belittling and commodifying the unfamiliar is deep-rooted.
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"Everyone was belittling that strategy," says Negatu, who was born in Ethiopia.
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That is belittling, distorting and an insult to the victims of Nazi Germany.
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"There's no belittling, devaluing, name-calling, or insulting your partner," Dr. Greer says.
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The process of establishing superiority over another group of gamers by belittling them.
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"Interactions like this are beyond frustrating and belittling," Thore writes in the post.
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Despite belittling the protesters, Mr Khan has felt obliged to negotiate with them.
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To date, Trump hasn't really come up with a belittling nickname for Mueller.
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Trump resumed his usual habits of belittling the press, his opponents, and immigrants.
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Recently, Trump called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas," actively belittling her and Native Americans simultaneously.
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Does he find your belittling of the job he's paid to do HILARIOUS?
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In April, he tweeted an altered video that depicted Omar belittling the event.
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" Clinton on Trump's degrading comments about women "Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger.
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People have said he is belittling, the same kind of things that I say.
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I didn't want to feminize women for the sake of it — that's just belittling.
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Graham gave us his own take on belittling people for the sake of comedy.
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Donald Trump has staked his campaign on demeaning and belittling women at every turn.
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He is victimizing his supporters by belittling their intelligence and lying to their faces.
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Trump's belittling of McCain never ceased, and Graham took proper offense — for a while.
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"More than it's affected Jersey," he added, as if belittling a voter warranted emphasis.
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They dream up outlandish festivities while belittling and humiliating the maid, Bess (Megan Tusing).
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The only thing off limits is making fun of or belittling someone else's problem.
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The attack annoyed Buttigieg and his supporters, who accused Biden of belittling smaller cities.
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Bitcoin Bears love belittling people who are fearful that bitcoin may be a bubble.
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Being self-employed, she figured, would mean not having to deal with belittling bosses.
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The actress also accuses her ex of being "psychologically abusive" and belittling her musical abilities.
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For Mr Trump, belittling critics and intimidating business partners has been second nature for decades.
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He actively focuses on belittling his opponents to score points with his most loyal supporters.
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It can take the form of spreading rumors or belittling someone over what they wear.
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I think you're going to have unmarried women who see this as belittling and patronizing.
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He has regularly demeaned and demonized immigrants, belittling the Gold Star mother of Army Capt.
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Presidential campaigns should not be about belittling people's appearances or bragging about your own appendages.
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We don't want to know about a suicide bomber's diabetic parents and belittling ex-girlfriend.
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When talk of food turns to hunting, Gilly chimes in, which surprises Sam's belittling father.
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He was belittling almost everyone at the table to the point that I had enough.
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The president undercut Mr. Tillerson the next day, belittling his efforts to start a dialogue.
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"The data that we're collecting is actually belittling the scope of the problem," she says.
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Democrats responded to Tea Party supporters by mocking them, dismissing them and even belittling them.
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Sure beats that other Boston fireballer and his relentless belittling of the little guys and girls.
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This can be the ritual humiliation of models, belittling of assistants, power plays and screaming fits.
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So, happy anniversary to one of the most confusing, assaulting, and belittling jobs I've ever done.
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Other prominent donors spoke out last week after Mr. Trump's belittling of the parents of Capt.
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Bloomberg has long been accused of making offensive and belittling remarks about women's appearances and sexuality.
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Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I hear his voice in my head belittling me.
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The book provides still more; it outlines Trump's petty belittling of others, his self-important grandiosity.
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And so, I - - I understand how some people are saying that and I'm not belittling them.
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I once had a boss, this guy you really don't know, but he was so belittling.
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To be clear, there is a distinction between assault and rape allegations and belittling and screaming.
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But on Twitter this week, the first daughter belittled an art exhibit she believed was belittling her.
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She said he was "very condescending, very belittling" and asked why she bothered to follow him home.
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Negan relentlessly bounces back-and-forth between genially belittling Rick and threatening real violence on the Alexandrians.
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Campaign messages criticizing or belittling #Metoo elicited negative responses from voters in the foundation's research, she added.
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Zeman has been a polarizing force, publicly belittling opponents and sniping at intellectual elites and the media.
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The comments raised eyebrows as some worried belittling Kim could put the summit in jeopardy yet again.
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The effect of a defense of this nature may be perceived as belittling or minimizing the concern.
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When Big Beer isn't imitating its craft brewing competitors, it counters their appeal by belittling their customers.
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He started belittling her and her work by calling her "insane" and saying her data calculations were wrong.
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"He said he was tired of waiting for me, and was constantly belittling and controlling me," she said.
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The idea of a "breakup cut" sounds flippant to me — it's almost belittling something that is so momentous.
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In that way, Obama's zinger served the dual role of reassuring the voters and belittling an opponent simultaneously.
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Reading from a teleprompter and not belittling opponents was enough to get some critics to call him presidential.
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Roman feels so emasculated by his father's belittling that he briefly considers having sex with his girlfriend Tabitha.
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In seven starts against them, he has now thrown 22 touchdowns without an interception, belittling their zone defense.
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"There is a belittling going on, as if she's a foreign girl, and this is OK," he said.
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She is uninterested in belittling or distorting her figures, showing how much power she can exert over them.
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A single tweet from the president belittling the press can birth tens of thousands of memes in its wake.
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Kate shoots dirty looks at her, and once Madison finishes, Kate stands up and starts berating and belittling her.
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That part's OK, but belittling all of that by following it up with this overly low-key phrase isn't.
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And Mr. Obama, who has long been adept at belittling Mr. Trump, could be an effective advocate for Mrs.
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He is everything I was raised by these good people to stand against: Belittling, lover of self, boastful, unrepentant.
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Mr. Trump has enjoyed political fortune by belittling his opponents, handing them demeaning nicknames, and even mocking their spouses.
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Donald J. Trump has acknowledged that he likes to brand his rivals with belittling monikers that tend to stick.
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It began with what were widely perceived as belittling statements made by two feminist powerbrokers and glass-ceiling smashers.
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This is especially true if you focus your snark on belittling others or enjoy giving backhanded comments to subordinates.
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As for the interviews themselves, it's still a delight to see Galifianakis toss off one belittling question after another.
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Trump bullies overtly by mocking and belittling his competition until they come bow at his feet, like Chris Christie.
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His temper would raise, and he'd be sort of belittling, and nice moments too, but it was really difficult.
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In comparing music with food in this way, I am not belittling music, ranking it below novels, plays, or poems.
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He reacted to that setback by belittling the leader of the Senate Republicans, whose help he needs to pass legislation.
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One complaint about the article was that the description of the activists as a "fractious bunch" felt belittling and dismissive.
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And Weisberg exhibits many of the signs, blocking Leslie every chance he gets and belittling her in wholly inappropriate ways.
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It's just the latest instance of Trump belittling his attorney general, a pattern that has astounded Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Stung Stung: "K" used his frustration over this as a justification for belittling an overweight woman, in his son's presence.
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TNT analyst Charles Barkley has a history of belittling LeBron James, and it seems King James has finally had enough.
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But the haters do so with very different conventions and language, along with an ironic and often belittling sense of humor.
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"I would think that an institution such as Vogue would respect young entrepreneurs instead of belittling them," PeaceLoveShea wrote on Instagram.
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" In a January 2, 2014 article for the Daily Mail titled "Why does the Left insist on belittling true British heroes?
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That position, though, is rarely said openly, with some Republicans careful to avoid publicly belittling a president who closely tracks slights.
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Not only was he unfaithful, but he delighted in belittling his difficult wife, Brown said, and made her doubt her sanity.
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What make less sense, however, is to simultaneously highlight a quote from one of those same customers belittling your core offering.
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" Clinton has support from Capitol Hill Democrats, who are emphasizing "Trump's well known admiration for Putin and his belittling of NATO.
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The memo: To be clear, people on all sides of the political spectrum found the memo offensive and belittling to women.
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Not picking at your partner or belittling them is the best way to create a happy environment, [where] everyone is equal.
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"So, happy anniversary to one of the most confusing, assaulting, and belittling jobs I've ever done," he wrote in his post.
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Our Principles PAC quoted Mr. Trump using the word in an advertisement last week that detailed his history of belittling women.
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Exhausted and furious, Elizabeth demands that Philip try to maybe "earn" the esteem of those he's always complained are belittling him.
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" Later, she made maybe her most concise attack on his habit of demeaning women: "Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger.
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In August 2017, an employee at Casa Padre made a belittling remark to a child in the presence of other children.
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"The practice of demonizing and belittling is especially toxic to the world of aviation," Mr. Gadzinski said he told his congressman.
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He added that he had received allegations about Patel's behavior, including "shouting and swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands."
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In this case, impostor syndrome had hit this SEAL and the new officer responded to that anxiety by belittling the role.
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Making fun of and belittling a disease you don&apost understand is never the way, all it takes is educating yourself.
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White liberals can love Warren or Buttigieg until the cows come home, but the belittling of Biden's support reeks of privilege.
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A century later, it had curdled into a belittling insult, referring to issues of "small importance" or to "small minded" people.
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What he would do if elected is covered, but much of his speeches are spent belittling his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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Warren responded by implicitly belittling the ambition of Harris' demand: "I don't just want to push Donald Trump off Twitter," she said.
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Everyone is at the gym to better themselves and become healthier so please refrain from going up to someone and belittling them.
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Everyone is at the gym to better themselves and become healthier so PLEASE refrain from going up to someone and belittling them.
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You might think that belittling someone else is a great way to make yourself look better by comparison, but you'd be wrong.
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This must be an awkward development for all the progressive commentators who have staked their careers on bashing and belittling the hawks.
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President Trump responded Friday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions' statement pushing back on Trump for belittling him in a Fox News interview.
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Therefore, it is not unduly belittling yesterday's encounter to rate it as decidedly inferior in interest and merit to its immediate predecessor.
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Many have pointed out the ostensible irony of the first lady promoting anti-bullying given her husband's combative and sometimes belittling rhetoric.
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While my job was belittling, it was at least a job, and I took solace in the fact I was supporting myself.
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In the Dvorak concerto, the cellist Gautier Capuçon battled valiantly to assert himself against an ensemble that seemed intent on belittling him.
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Beyond the obvious ridiculousness of the comb incident, there are more unsettling allegations of belittling, demeaning, and borderline abusive behavior by the senator.
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It's deeply marked with a history of racial discrimination and of belittling black people, and globally it's something that you must never do.
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Ignoring, belittling or bashing viewpoints like the one Stephens presented won't change anyone's minds, no matter what the facts of climate science say.
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In fact, because of the word's feminine associations, it can be especially condescending to a man, belittling and feminising at the same time.
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"This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others," Popovich said.
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And though I didn't feel tipsy—which was my father's word—I'd been shamed and knew Niall was thinking belittling things about me.
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These pages are rife with unwelcoming diner workers, violent lawmen, unwarranted and belittling verbal and physical attacks that are both omnipresent and unrelenting.
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An exhibition like Strange Currencies pokes holes in such belittling comments as it challenges the narrative of a white, U.S.-dominated art world.
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This one has a mansion with an ocean view and a belittling attitude that ends with Bell in one of her knockdown brawls.
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Though "fingering" is a term that I don't like because it seems very, I don't know, nonchalant, I guess, or kind of belittling.
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The two devote a significant part of their time repressing (in the case of Alejandro) and belittling (in the case of Mariela) dissenters.
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But as a Democrat — and as one of the most popular Georgia politicians of his generation — his barrage of belittling was brilliantly executed.
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Nicholas Stemann's production for the Münchner Kammerspiele manages to confront Strindberg's chauvinistic fear and misogynist message without belittling or making fun of them.
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As an English professor, I also know that metaphors are intended to have multiple meanings and that hurt and belittling are among them.
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Rice said she wanted to make sure she isn't belittling the stories of women who have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct.
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But the message of the cancelled system is that there is a price to pay for belittling allied contributions to the common defense.
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"This man in the Oval Office is a soulless coward who thinks that he can only become large by belittling others," Pop said.
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And what fan of Lincolnesque elocution didn't enjoy Donald Trump calling Ted Cruz a girlie man, while belittling Jeb Bush for needing his mommy.
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Law enforcement often uses social media to speak in a way that's cheery and cutesy, belittling and heartless, or some combination of these things.
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While Democratic leaders are not blameless for government inaction, Republicans are largely responsible for the current belittling of science and disregard for the environment.
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The latest in this string of blunders is Louise Linton belittling another woman on social media Monday night for having less money than her.
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No.Why it's great: Valentino Shevchenko, the UFC flyweight champion, is already belittling the achievements of the UFC strawweight champion Weili Zhang to the media.
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In other words, while exercise can't "cure" depression, and it's belittling to assume that it could, it can be one helpful form of treatment.
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But nobody in the Republican presidential field, with the exception of Donald J. Trump, is as skilled as Mr. Christie at belittling his rivals.
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I think we can all agree that for a congresswoman to refer to a 28-year-old candidate as "this girl" is rather belittling.
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Yesterday he said Mitt Romney walks "like a penguin," the kind of belittling, dead-on, ad hominem attack that Sanders is not accustomed to.
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Seek out info that actually helps you be a better you in a more efficient way, and reject all the BS and belittling commentary.
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When she later criticized Buttigieg, it was by going down the line of Democrats on the debate stage, accusing him of belittling them all.
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"Center for American Progress leader Neera Tanden repeatedly calls for unity while simultaneously maligning my staff and supporters and belittling progressive ideas," he wrote.
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After the reporter repeated the phrase, it was still not clear if Trump understood the belittling implication and the relationship it has with Asians.
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From television to social media to everyday politics at the highest level, we see the powerful belittling, maligning and mocking those with lower status.
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Mr. McConnell's objective in the current battle is to bring about a speedy acquittal of the president, belittling the House's case in the process.
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Reporters were also charmed by his gruff, sometimes profane manner—even if he would get occasional low marks for, say, belittling a disabled journalist.
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This is a powerful and persuasive movement that is gaining momentum every day, which is probably why Democrats are so foolishly belittling the payouts.
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Aides are also mindful of how unsuccessful Republican candidates were in 2016 when they tried to follow Trump's lead of belittling or name calling.
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Clinton fired back, calling out Trump for belittling of accusers and offensive comments he's made about women and their appearances, as well as other groups.
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Donald Trump loves nothing more than belittling the media, and he's been happy to turn his administration into a vehicle for selling his family's products.
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It appears that the clearest path to the top of the "shining city on a hill" is blazed by insulting, demeaning and belittling your opponents.
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As reported by the Washington Post, Lonergan may have been constantly belittling his players and also, for some reason, trying to undercut his athletic director.
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Belittling them all as "crybullies" or "snowflake" protesters (for their exquisite fragility) ignores the breadth of their outlook, which is generally more historical than parochial.
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"The stupid media anoints her as a genius because she asked one tough question," Maher said, adding that Trump responded by "belittling" Kelly for months.
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They told a board judge that the mogul made his point by throwing a tantrum, shouting, belittling them and slamming his fist on a table.
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His response that she would be ill matched playing against even one of the lowest-ranked men fueled outrage that he was belittling her talents.
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Rather than belittling their preference for the "domestic struggles and joys" of their cozy yet threadbare lives, the film makes it OK -- even embraces it.
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But that won't stop them from belittling the process and, by extension, degrading the Constitution, if they can whittle away public trust in our institutions.
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But Trump is an expert at trivializing and belittling opponents, to detract from the gravity of their arguments and to feed the conservative media machine.
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Trump also stirred outrage during the Republican primary fight by belittling Bush's record on terrorism and blaming him for not stopping the 9/11 attacks.
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Streep was branded an "overrated actress" by U.S. President Donald Trump after she criticized him for belittling a disabled journalist at the Golden Globes in January.
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Taiwan has long complained about China belittling it on the international stage and forcing foreign governments and companies to refer to it as part of China.
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Ted Kennedy, who was a powerhouse in Congress at the time, reportedly endorsed Obama over consternation with Clinton belittling the young senator in a phone conversation.
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Senior aides were reluctant to confront Mr. Trump through television ads, even after weeks of his belittling Mr. Cruz in widely covered speeches and TV appearances.
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The Republican president had bristled at the investigation since taking office in January 2017, belittling Sessions and calling the probe a witch hunt and a hoax.
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By talking about punching the president, Booker was projecting his own masculinity, then belittling Trump's, and at the same time trying to soar above the fray.
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"Look, Rush Limbaugh has spent his entire time on the air dividing people, belittling people, talking about blacks in ways — African Americans in ways," Biden said.
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Or Trump's attacks on an independent judiciary (recall the collective Republican gasps at Obama's public belittling of Supreme Court justices at the State of the Union)?
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President Trump took aim at the media early Friday morning, accusing journalists and news outlets of belittling and disparaging his early accomplishments in the White House.
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The turban is considered one of the five critical "articles of faith" in the Sikh community, and Sikh's accused the luxury brand of belittling their faith.
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Trump has responded by belittling North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as "Little Rocket Man" and threatened "fire and fury" if Pyongyang doesn't stop its threats.
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Other women, including former Democratic New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, have accused Bloomberg of regularly belittling women and making disparaging comments about their appearance.
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So, essentially, Rob's persistent harassing and emotional belittling left her so beaten down that she was too tired to fight him off anymore and just settled.
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She keeps insisting she has a lot of work to do, but he stays around, needling her, belittling her and insisting they take a selfie together.
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She proceeds to list belittling words reserved for women, before delving into the troubling gender politics of fairy tales and the public perception of female stars.
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"A woman who constantly finds joy in belittling black women (Beyoncé, Rihanna, Skai Jackson, Remy Ma), can't try and stand for them because it's convenient!" she said.
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In recent weeks, that fury spilled out into public view, with the president openly criticizing and belittling his attorney general in interviews with reporters and on Twitter.
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" Trump also accused the Democrats of "belittling" the concept of a wall, arguing that it is "like a wheel" — both are "old-fashioned" but there's "nothing better.
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She believes Trump's recent days-long feud with the Gold Star Khan family, and his belittling last summer of former prisoner-of-war McCain, have provided openings.
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No wonder the amiable Jekyll in public turned into a vicious Hyde in private—abusing, assaulting, belittling, stalking, and eventually murdering the woman he professed to love.
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He has been an apologist for Vladimir Putin, while belittling alliances that have preserved US and Western security since World War II. I cannot vote for Trump.
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"You know, Chris, your mother would not be proud of you the way you're behaving," Barker admonished, before belittling Jericho in the most Barker-ish ways possible.
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Many go further, suggesting trans women are men's right activists working purposely to erode women's hard-won protections, commonly belittling our experiences to score social media points.
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"Elected officials shouldn't be on social media mocking and belittling people who are expressing their concerns about their community and the nation," she said during her campaign.
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That he was accused of belittling and being dismissive of female employees was significant given that he was brought in to help clean up the firm's culture.
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"I know that the strongest propaganda machine is turned against me, as Manafort once did," she said, lambasting Manafort for "destroying my honest name, belittling my activities".
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Lagging behind him in second place is Representative Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right lawmaker with a long history of incendiary, crude remarks belittling women, blacks and gays.
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But Mr. Trump changed that with an overnight diatribe on Twitter, belittling Mr. Bloomberg's modest height and accusing the Democratic establishment of favoring him over Mr. Sanders.
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There is the belittling, by nearly everyone, of the acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney ("He'll take whatever I offer him"; "Mick just wants to be liked.").
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Perhaps we should also remember that belittling the pain of others is actually an abusive habit, and that emotional safety matters and isn't something to be mocked.
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Chief among those, Rubio has said, was belittling Trump for the size of his hands in the leadup to Super Tuesday, which he has publicly said he regrets.
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But the hacked emails, showing that DNC officials who were supposed to be neutral were privately belittling Sanders and his campaign, came out on the very first night.
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His opponent was not naive to this fact either, but produced his usual bombast in the pre-fight press conference, belittling Watson for his inability to accept defeat.
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He has taken to belittling potential Democratic rivals during his frequent political rallies to support Republican candidates, and has been building his supporter lists for nearly two years.
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It is wonderfully entertaining to watch him defy the rules of civil discourse by insulting and belittling Republicans as well as Democrats and disrupt everything considered politically correct.
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In an email before the interview, Mr. Wang expressed concern that foreign news reports had portrayed him as "belittling" Mr. Xi by comparing him to a small insect.
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Georgiou is prepared to recommend the cooly logical Burnham, even though the ridiculously lanky alien science officer Saru (Doug Jones) keeps belittling Burnham by Saru-splaining to her.
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Trump's continued belittling of McCain speaks to the president's pettiness and also his desire to remake the Republican Party in his image by casting aside all internal critics.
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" Smith has made comments against the Trump administration in the past, including attacking the president for "belittling" reporters and fighting back on Trump calling the media "fake news.
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I'm sure it's true, but the reason I wouldn't say it is that I would be concerned that it could appear to be belittling the tragedy at Parkland.
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Was he the authentic man on the street that Ford Nation adored, a sympathetic figure who desperately craved respect from his hard-ass father and belittling big brother?
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I appreciate that for many people, including some Italian-Americans, the celebration of Columbus is viewed as belittling the suffering of indigenous peoples at the hands of Europeans.
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"That would involve belittling, screaming, verbally abusing the staff to the point where he would explode and the staff would feel they were on eggshells," Mr. Tester said.
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I feel that true taxidermy is an art form in itself, and I would almost be belittling the true skill of taxidermy by calling what I do taxidermy.
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Americans were very good at belittling each other's political opinions and believing in demonstrably false news stories long before Russian hackers allegedly got involved in the first place.
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As my colleague Frank Bruni writes: Nomination contests often get ugly, with candidates in the same party — candidates with some of the same core values — belittling one another.
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But his revisionist views and association with individuals belittling the grievances of Korean and Chinese people have led right-wing organizations to see him as a legitimizing force.
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Republicans especially delight in belittling the bureaucracy and complaining about what they call federal workers' "lifetime tenure," the Civil Service rules that help shield them from political interference.
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" Trump also had harsh things to say about Perry during the campaign, even belittling his eyeglasses by saying, "He put on glasses so people will think he's smart.
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Both seem energized by opposition, even if they respond to it differently — Mr. Trump by ranting and belittling his critics; Francis never directly, but gently, in pointed asides.
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" Trump also had harsh things to say about Perry during the campaign, even belittling his eyeglasses by saying, "He put on glasses so people will think he's smart.
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Clinton, sensing her rival's relative inexperience on world affairs, offered a somewhat belittling reply at one point in the exchange: "It's a big, complicated world out there," she said.
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So he started his rally by belittling reporters, reminding his supporters that Washington journalists were busy cavorting in a ballroom with Hollywood celebrities at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Instead, it's a contrast between the left belittling and ignoring average Americans and the right welcoming all to a lasting coalition of voters never before seen in American politics.
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" A few artists called her out for seemingly belittling an important black art style, to which she responds that "there's no public art that isn't subject to public critique.
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As the campaign gained strength, the opposition worked to dehumanize and demonize the "suffragettes"—a belittling nickname bestowed by the Daily Mail, but which the protestors reclaimed and embraced.
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"He thinks this kind of stuff is funny, and mocking the disabled and mocking and belittling our vets with his betrayal — in my book — is not funny," Palin said.
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Ava DuVernay oughta meet the woman she accused of belittling a young black man by cutting off his dreadlocks before going nuclear on her ... so says the kid himself.
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As ever with Mourinho, none of this was intended as praise for a superior opponent; there is, after all, no club Mourinho takes more joy in belittling than Liverpool.
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Former HHS Secretary Tom Price toured the company's Wilmington, Ohio, plant last year to tout Vivitrol — stirring controversy by belittling rival medication-assisted treatments that are more widely-used.
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The belittling of critics as pathetic and impotent is entirely of a piece with his giving mocking nicknames to rivals, like "low-energy" Jeb Bush and "little" Marco Rubio.
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NFL players have slammed the president's comments and accused him of belittling the purpose of the anthem protest: speaking out against police brutality and racial injustice against African-Americans.
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Constantly belittling their interests reinforces the message that they don&apost matter and that their needs are inherently lesser, feeding into the system that dismisses women in every arena.
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"If he is not buried there, it would appear as if we are belittling his efforts in liberating us as a nation and economically empowering us," Mr. Nyakadya said.
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"On no account do we want this music prize to be a platform for anti-Semitism, contempt for women, homophobia or for belittling violence," it said in a statement.
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He jam-packs the news cycle, belittling foes' appearance and personalities, thumbing his nose at the political establishment, and making his lead in the polls the core of his message.
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In a blog post Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang emphasized that his company has an ongoing collaboration with Google, while also indirectly belittling part of Google's tensor processing unit initiative.
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"In our less-assured moments, we might respond to our negative feelings in an antagonistic way; antisocial responses to envy include belittling the other or becoming defensive," Dr. Knight says.
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Whenever the whole family was at the table, it was painful to see how much their parents blatantly favored the younger sister — constantly praising the younger and belittling the older.
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His belittling wife (Magdeleine Bérubet) might herself lay claim to the movie's title were it not for Legrand's succumbing to the charms of a mercenary prostitute named Lulu (Janie Marèse).
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O'Rourke's nonchalant quip that his wife cares for the couple's three children "sometimes with my help" irked a number of the former Texas congressman's critics, who saw it as belittling.
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For your convenience, we've scoured her experiences to provide you, dear readers, with a handy, 41-step guide on how to navigate hideous, belittling and sexist behavior at the office.
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Heidi Heitkamp, the Democrat who holds the seat now, has said the tariffs would cause a "devastating blow" to the state's agriculture sector and accused Cramer of belittling his constituents.
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An Instagram Comment Gone Wrong Louise Linton, a wealthy Scottish-American actress married to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, responded to an Instagram commenter who criticized Linton's designer outfit by belittling her.
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Cam Newton is straight-up apologizing for a comment he made to a female reporter that many branded sexist and belittling ... going so far as to make a video for it.
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"He might be inconsistent when it comes to his policy stances, but he's been consistent in demeaning, belittling, and inciting harassment of women from day one of his campaign," she said.
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GUTFELD: I think it&aposs a great idea, get your political messaging from Alyssa Milano who spends 90 percent of her time on twitter belittling anyone who isn&apost like her.
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That we will all be more fully whole, more fully equal, more fully human, when we scrub the rot of sexist abuse, assault, belittling, interrupting, grabbing, objectifying, and diminishing of women.
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Lin said she decided to share her story after watching Monday's presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton berated Trump for calling women "pigs" and belittling a Miss Universe winner for gaining weight.
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For months now, President Trump had been humiliating his top law enforcement official, belittling him in public and yelling at him in private, in a clear attempt to force his resignation.
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" CRAMER GETS CRANKY OVER TRUMP'S LOVE FOR HEITKAMP WaPo: "President Trump is aggressively campaigning for Republican Senate candidates around the country and belittling their Democratic rivals, with one notable exception — Sen.
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Emotional outbursts, belittling others, shutting co-workers down when they speak, and just generally being a jerk are other ways a lack of emotional intelligence will leave you looking for work.
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But belittling lawmakers and badgering them to work doesn't help instill voter confidence in Republicans already facing an enthusiasm gap with Democrats fired up to go to the polls, strategists say.
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It was unclear which fans responded to more favorably: a dowager countess mowing down meritocrats with one-liners or a romance that involved an earl's daughter belittling the bourgeoisie as foreplay.
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Outrage discourse involves efforts to provoke emotional responses, (especially anger, fear, and moral indignation) from the audience through the use of overgeneralizations, sensationalism, patently inaccurate information, and belittling ridicule of opponents.
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It was just as rebellious, only it rebelled against punk itself: its nihilism, its bad-boy pose, its mockery of melody, its belittling of sentimentality, and above all, its self-seriousness.
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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) set the cable news world alight Sunday with a controversial tweet belittling immigrants and siding with a Dutch politician who has been convicted of hate speech.
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Donald J. Trump's hyper-masculinity — the sexual swagger, the belittling of his opponents, his need to dominate — appealed to some men who believed he could restore them to their rightful place.
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People were coming out of the shadows to share personal tales of injustice and discrimination, of disparaging and belittling encounters that made them question their sense of belonging in the world.
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The term "sexual harassment," used here in a social sense, not a legal one, refers to a spectrum of behaviors from unwanted sexual advances to belittling, intimidating or uncomfortable sexual comments.
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There's no need to be embarrassed or feel badly about committing a small offense, if the deed is so insignificant that only a jealous, belittling stepmother could find fault with you.
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Ms. Cacho-Olivares said she thought the government's macho attitude and its belittling of women might have made Mr. Marcos hesitant to come down hard on her and her fellow journalists.
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Just because someone chooses to wear leather bodysuits on stage doesn't mean that their work—their performance that night, or another period in their career, or both—is worth disregarding or belittling.
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" The actor has no plans to retire from Hollywood, and "I'm not negating or belittling what I've done professionally because people need to laugh and be taken to places of suspended reality.
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"By you shaming me and any other victims you're helping the abuser accomplish their task of belittling, intimidating, and discounting all the abuse they've put the #victim and #victims through!" she continued.
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"The nature of our campaign is not belittling people, it's not opposition research, it's not attacking other people, but is a serious discussion about the issues facing the American people," he said.
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Not that the administration has demonstrated much interest in seeing that courts can do their jobs well; the president has a long history of belittling courts and judges and undermining their independence.
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Rabbi Irving Greenberg, who was the president of the Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life for a decade, said he repeatedly rebuked Mr. Steinhardt for using belittling language toward both men and women.
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Billy Bush says part of the reason he penned an op-ed calling out President Trump had to do with his accusers, and what Billy perceived as the Prez belittling their claims.
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The president's coarse language, belittling nicknames and aversion to humility help explain why his approval ratings over all in Utah have been below 50 percent for most of the last three years.
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Video "By you shaming me and any other victims you're helping the abuser accomplish their task of belittling, intimidating, and discounting all the abuse they've put the #victim and #victims through!" she added.
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"Sorry but I'm not going to be nice about what I think about your belittling attempts to educate me on the safety or better yet my intentions as a new mum," Duncan begins.
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Instead of belittling Sanders supporters by calling them 'ridiculous' for not supporting Clinton, she could have appealed to their common interests: higher minimum wage, Supreme Court appointments, climate change and women's health issues.
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Still, keeping in mind that, belittling commentary from family is often a reflection of the commenter — not the person whose life is in question — can help to deflect many of these unpleasant interactions.
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One appeared to enjoy belittling him, announcing to the class that "Tom found maths hard today," while neglecting to mention that he was doing work meant for children ten years older than him.
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To notice whether or not something is off, you'll need to know the signs of an unhealthy relationship, which include extreme jealousy, manipulation, isolation, belittling, and feeling like someone is obsessed with you.
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As multiple reports from HuffPost, BuzzFeed, and Yahoo News have detailed, former Klobuchar staffers describe a hostile work environment filled with belittling comments, unpredictable bursts of anger, and a vindictive focus on retaliation.
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"She said she was upset because Bettig criticized the way she raised her child and was belittling Isher, saying there were many things she had had enough of," he testified, according to PennLive.
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Money is a complicated, touchy, emotional subject, and you need to feel like you can talk openly with the financial professional you work with, without fear of them judging you or belittling you.
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He has exacted those misguided ideals by treating you with disrespect and disregard, all the while belittling you as a leader of your own people, and you, in turn have done the same.
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Ask Republicans in the state what they think of Mr. Sessions, who is running again for the Senate there, and many will use the same belittling adjectives the president has hurled at him.
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"I find this a belittling act from an alleged great democracy," she said in the interview, which the newspaper said was conducted in an exclusive hotel in Achrafieh, a neighborhood in eastern Beirut.
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I cannot be silent while my party's candidate employs belittling and dehumanizing language to my fellow citizens of Asian, African, and Latin-American descent -- in addition to women and the disabled -- day after day.
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Noah did something that few Facebook commenters can achieve: he dissected Lahren's arguments without belittling her or her views, even though it's clear he finds them about as valid as the world being flat.
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"Just a reminder that these are the same folks who assert their superiority by belittling the intelligence and good faith of others," Ocasio-Cortez, a frequent target of Fox News pundits, wrote on Twitter.
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Belittling, totalising comments about a people based on their skin colour is still a facile, unhelpfully tribal and meaninglessly antagonistic practice, even if a shameful history of systemic oppression does not lurk behind it.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A black model who appeared in a Dove advert denounced as racist by many social media users has defended the clip, saying that far from belittling black women it celebrated ethnic diversity.
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Countering his Fox News colleague Shepard Smith—who rightly knocked Trump for "belittling and delegitimizing" CNN correspondent Jim Acosta at the Wednesday event—Hannity heaped praise on the "pretty big beatdown" of the media.
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The scathing 56-page external review cited a "disconcerting" number of incidences of bullying, racism and sexism and multiple cases of managers belittling and publicly humiliating staff and making "demeaning, menacing", profanity-filled comments.
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The mayor took his disdain to a new level on Thursday, blatantly and pointedly ignoring the paper's City Hall bureau chief, Yoav Gonen, during a news conference, and belittling The Post while doing so.
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Among other things, his former aides have expressed concerns about Mr. Trump's questioning of the impartiality of a judge because of his Mexican heritage, and belittling the Muslim parents of a slain Army officer.
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Hanging has been abolished, a certain political sense is entering the country, and a young reporter named Clegg (Owen Campbell) would like a comment about it all, but Harry brushes Clegg off, belittling him.
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He did this by mixing overt appeals to white nationalism with a steady stream of insults against the Republican establishment (mocking John McCain's war record, belittling the Bush family, picking fights with Paul Ryan).
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It's easy to look at these changing poll numbers and see something blatantly hypocritical — that these Americans are knowingly giving in to Trump rhetoric praising Putin and belittling free trade, betraying their former ideals.
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Over the weekend, while addressing a gathering of his party's youth movement in the eastern state of Thuringia, he made that comment about the Nazi era, which drew widespread condemnation as belittling the Holocaust.
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Linton has kept a relatively low profile since a controversy in 2017 where she apologized after sustained backlash for a now-deleted Instagram post touting her wealth and her subsequent reply belittling a commenter.
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The state auditor general and a task force created by Snyder have faulted the Department of Environmental Quality for not requiring Flint to treat the river water for corrosion and belittling the public's fears.
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On Saturday, in response to the Biden campaign's ad attacking Buttigieg, Tom Cochran, the CEO of the US Conference of Mayors, tweeted, "It's unfortunate that Vice President Biden is belittling the role" of mayors.
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Some of the lawyers involved in Wednesday's attack said they were moved to act by a viral video by one of the doctors, who mocked and ridiculed them through reciting poetry and belittling remarks.
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She said that, starting in third grade, when children begin taking the state exams, embarrassing or belittling children for work seen as slipshod was a regular occurrence, and in some cases encouraged by network leaders.
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H: That brings me back to America again, and specifically to the way you've framed it, as a sort of 'challenge' to a dominant and often very belittling conception of cinema from the African diaspora.
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It is unfortunate that to celebrate one woman writer, to associate her with genius, Gerber has to go through the tired ritual of separating her from and belittling more "feminine" work (as "dreamy and sad").
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As if women didn't have more serious things to deal with in the workplace, (the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, equal pay for equal work), discussions about the outfit you chose that morning can be belittling.
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She was arrested in April on charges of belittling the 1994 genocide when she asked why Rwanda's official memorial did not acknowledge that moderate Hutus were among the 800,000 people killed in addition to Tutsis.
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The singer, who has previously opened up about her difficult marriage to Adams (they wed in 2009 and divorced in 2016), also accused her ex-husband of being "psychologically abusive" and belittling her musical abilities.
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Belittling her intellect or acumen in competitive domains is certainly one way of doing that — especially when backed by the sense that it's in her womanly nature to be oriented to people rather than abstractions.
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But when he got the prompt to overreact, Christie turned on the wind machine with, again, the polish of someone who has 10,000 hours of practice at belittling public school teachers from behind a podium.
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The comments following the story were damning—about the companies involved, about the culture of silence and denial, and about Kreisberg's behavior, which allegedly included subjecting female colleagues to belittling remarks and uncomfortable physical situations.
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"(It's important to note, however, that Walker did address Katherine, and found her representation equally belittling.) But throughout our email exchange, Ricci kept emphasizing over and over again that the game was "in its infancy.
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Beyond the procedural concerns and policy doubts, however, we are distressed by the president's extraordinary belittling of the United States, the smallness of his vision, his inclination to retreat behind walls, his dearth of empathy.
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Rather than belittling such efforts, Sessions' Justice Department should promote constructive measures -- such as facilitated dialogues across ideological lines, peaceful counterspeech, and stronger reporting mechanisms for hate crimes -- that address hatred without impairing free speech.
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While the patriarch, the Rupert Murdochesque Logan (Brian Cox), holds the power, the rest of the family resorts to manipulation, belittling, flattery and back-stabbing to wrest power from each other and all other challengers.
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It tells the true story of network head Roger Ailes (John Lithgow, in the film) and the sexual misconduct he allegedly committed at Fox News, which is said to include belittling and harassing female employees.
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Her 2005 split from now-ex-husband Brad Pitt inspired a veritable lifetime of demeaning and belittling headlines that constantly paint her as the heartbroken victim in a classic love triangle (with Pitt and Angelina Jolie).
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Sanchez had done nothing wrong in handling the Simakov fallout, but just at that delicate moment, another issue emerged: Kovalev felt the trainer was belittling him in order to enhance the reputation of his friend Gennady.
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Mr. Trump has trampled local sensibilities in myriad ways, from his belittling treatment of Mr. Rubio and Mr. Bush to his personal coarseness, slashing comments on immigration and endorsement of open relations with the Castro government.
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Some Chinese developed a bloated sense of nationalism, belittling Japan; while the Japanese developed a conflictual attitude towards China — marveling at its rapid growth but sneering at its society that is still backward in many aspects.
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"When ugly, belittling terms are used to describe groups of people, those terms can make discrimination seem O.K." Despite the Democrats' efforts, the amendment seeking to retain the term made it into the House appropriations bill.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump showed up late to Cohen's son's bar mitzvah and then made a belittling speech about how he had come only because Cohen had begged him and everyone around him.
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The White House's use of a national security argument to justify the duties against a close ally, along with President Trump's repeated belittling of both Mr. Trudeau and his trade policies, has offended and angered Canadians.
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But what he's, as it were, the top of the ladder of is a system of harassment, and belittling, and bullying, and interference, and what my mother would have referred to in the olden days as 'pestering.
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During more than two hours of emotional evidence, Gracie told the committee that women at every level of the BBC were under-valued, accusing managers of belittling women's work in their efforts to avoid admitting gender bias.
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The fact that vacuuming is read by the installation's maker and detractors as a belittling activity shows the really disturbing common ground between them: the notion that the work women are expected to do is highly problematic.
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This was the candidate who used the media, then turned on it, attacking and belittling reporters, blacklisting news organizations he didn't like, and threatening to tighten libel laws even as he misrepresented events and bent the facts.
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While they were prepping her in the operating room, Cormier says the nurses were belittling her and mocking her request to wait to start surgery until later that evening because they were prepped and ready to go.
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However, he did have an opportunity to commence dialogue and instead chose to recite the law again," he told CNBC, adding: " Dialogue doesn't start by constantly belittling the person who you are supposed to be negotiating with.
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If Trump elects to fight back—as he is notoriously likely to—with a series of fulminating and belittling tirades, this might afford his female challengers in the 2020 field the opportunity to seem strong and presidential.
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Having been thoroughly dressed down by Negan, Simon scrapes up a bit of his masculinity by belittling Jadis and her Scavengers, going so far as to shoot her followers one by one, right in front of her.
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He is dismayed by the many former players criticizing the current game on broadcasts: belittling analytics while bemoaning the rise in strikeouts, homers and infield shifts as well as the decline in singles, bunts and stolen bases.
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"We are the party of President Donald J. Trump," she told supporters after the returns made her victory clear on primary night and just hours after Mr. Trump endorsed her campaign with a tweet belittling Mr. Sanford.
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A state task force appointed by the governor blamed state officials, including the Department of Environmental Quality, saying they took a lax approach to enforcement and responded to concerns about the water by belittling people who complained.
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Amaral is part of a growing number of women who opinion polls show have recently warmed to Bolsonaro, a divisive candidate whose comments belittling rape and defending the gender pay gap have long alienated many female voters.
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Throughout her career, Dr. Reich fought to redress belittling portraits of Clara Schumann by earlier authors and to have her recognized as a significant composer, pianist and educator, as well as a central figure of German Romanticism.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump, who spent months belittling charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, has managed to revive questions about how his predecessor, President Barack Obama, handled suspicions about Russia in the months before the election.
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The video makes liberal use of popular former President Barack Obama in a belittling rundown of some of the city-level issues Buttigieg faced as mayor and also takes a swipe at his troubled record with African Americans.
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That feeling has dwindled into non-existence, but it has been replaced by unease at the policing of other people's faiths—Reddit atheists launching spectacularly unfunny attacks on the religious, or Ricky Gervais belittling believers from his iPhone.
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But seriously, among his tweets aimed at Wiz, he took some pretty misogynistic shots at Amber, belittling her, calling her a "stripper" and saying she trapped him by having his child ("this girl got you for 27 years").
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"In 2016, the Republican Party's candidate for president — my party — is belittling and scapegoating people of other religious and ethnic minorities in the harshest language," David Irvine, former chairman of the Davis County Republican Party, told the Tribune.
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AGs set the activist agenda and example by flaunting the law, subordinates work the trenches in partisan litigation while belittling adversaries, officials ignore the Supreme Court, and Justice strong arms corporations to fund outside allies, then hires them.
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Trump's belittling of a Gold Star mother, Ghazala Khan, mocking the physical disability of a reporter, vulgarities toward women and negative generalizations about immigrants, all point to an alarming lack of a sense of justice, if not humanity.
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Trump's fundamental bucking of the mainstream was a major part of how he dominated the debate stages: Not by finesse or sophistication, but by drawing sharp contrast and mocking and belittling hesitation or disagreement from his fellow contenders.
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A petty, belittling neighbor, two books from the 11th century written by Japanese women, and accounts of babies in the classics: Galchen wryly examines small moments in literature and life with the fresh eyes of a new mother.
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"It is our observation that its correspondents followed journalistic standards and that neither they nor any other journalists should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States," he said on his program.
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Ask Republicans today what they think of Mr. Sessions, who represented Alabama in the Senate for 20 years, and many of the same belittling adjectives that Mr. Trump has hurled at his former attorney general come spilling out.
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Trump can't hideNever before has America had a president so focused on sowing domestic discord with his constant us-versus-them rhetoric, his daily barrage of angry tweets belittling and demonizing any who call out his failures and abuses.
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Last season, we called out the show for its weird jokes about millennials and feminism that ended up belittling both of them, and it appears the show might have the same problem this time around with the #MeToo movement.
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The overwhelming effect of seeing, in codified form, every marketable thing in the world laid out before you is overwhelming and oddly belittling, as if all human wants and needs were so easy to anticipate, catalogue, and cater to.
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Torrent of insults Christie, the New Jersey governor, unleashed a torrent of insults at Rubio this week -- belittling him as the "boy in the bubble" who hides behind "canned answers," and is not ready to be commander-in-chief.
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As for his "mildly subversive references" — consisting mostly of jabs at the value of what he has been asked to teach — they affect his paycheck to about the same degree as belittling John McCain's war record affected Donald Trump.
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Pansexual people sometimes have to deal with &apospan-erasure&aposBi-erasure, or the erasure of bisexual identity through belittling comments and other forms of discrimination, comes from the idea that people cannot be attracted to people of multiple genders.
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In March, for example, Belarus adopted a new "informational security concept" aimed at countering not so much democratic ideas from Western Europe as the flow of aggressive, chauvinistic propaganda from Russia belittling Belarusian statehood, its language and separate history.
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He's a little too late to the game; his publishing schedule is too erratic; and he insists on maintaining a positive outlook, refusing to play into the expected norm of letting viewers feel superior to their entertainment by belittling it.
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In Not That Bad, Roxane Gay collects essays that illuminate the experience of women in a world that asks them to expect and tolerate regular harassment, belittling, and aggression, and then shames and insults them if they speak out against it.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some rabbis and Jewish students are planning protests against Donald Trump's speech on Monday at a conference of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC over what they say are his belittling comments about Muslims and other groups.
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We need Congress' help to end the decades of government neglect of millions of disabled Americans with the serious neuro-immune disease Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome -- a belittling name eschewed by patients and disease experts alike.
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Senator John McCain of Arizona called on Donald J. Trump to make amends to veterans for his belittling comments about prisoners of war and suggested he would be unlikely to appear on a stage with Mr. Trump until that happened.
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"Donald Trump's disregard for our institutions, his belittling of our intelligence and law enforcement community, as well as the press, and his insistence that the rules do not apply to him have been troubling from day one," said spokesman Phil Shulman.
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"When ugly, belittling names are used to describe groups of people, those terms can make discrimination seem O.K.," Mr. Castro said on the House floor on June 9, in an effort to stop the provision from being included in the bill.
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From the outset, many millennials viewed Trump's belligerent language on race and immigration, and his belittling comments about women, as an explicit counterrevolution against the ideal of a more inclusive and tolerant America that most of them say they support.
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It's not just that Trump has been accused of misconduct more than a dozen times, and has a well-documented history of demeaning and belittling women; he also rose to the presidency by fomenting sexist doubts about his opponent Hillary Clinton.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Trump inserted himself on Monday into the Democratic presidential nomination contest on the eve of its biggest day, belittling the resurgent Joseph R. Biden Jr. as a feebleminded has-been while fanning resentment among supporters of Bernie Sanders.
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But in this moment of reckoning around women's treatment in the workplace, she believes her experience deserves attention too — especially because the discrimination and belittling she feels she suffered came from someone who publicly portrays himself as an advocate for women.
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The chances of that happening, however, are near zero, not least because his would-be country claims territory, like the border town of Brcko, that does not belong to it and has a habit of belittling Bosnian Muslims as fanatics.
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She was immediately a target of renrou sousuo: The state-owned media depicted her as an unpatriotic traitor belittling the homeland, while angry netizens spread everything they could find out about her, including the address of her family back in China.
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Guard leaders, these people said, had been incensed by recent statements from American officials belittling Iran's military prowess, like an accusation by Brian Hook, the State Department's special envoy for Iran, that Iran had "photoshopped antiquated aircraft" to overstate its capabilities.
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And on Thursday, a White House plan surfaced to oust Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, who had presided over the mass resignations of senior diplomats while watching his authority undermined by repeated contradiction or belittling from the Oval Office.
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The ad opened a bitter new chapter in the Democratic race, with Biden belittling Buttigieg on the campaign trail Saturday and the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor's supporters responding by calling Biden dismissive of those in small cities and towns.
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"I have received allegations that her conduct has included shouting and swearing, belittling people, making unreasonable and repeated demands — behavior that created fear and that needed some bravery to call out," Mr. Rutnam said, reading an emotional statement before television cameras.
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When Justin Trudeau was overheard at the summit belittling Trump for taking too long with his press conference, the Canadian prime minister sounded to many Americans like a child whining that a working parent had kept him waiting for supper.
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"I hope very much two things: One, that the nature of our campaign is not belittling people — it's not opposition research, it's not attacking people — but it's an important discussion," he told a crowd of 1,300 at the state fairgrounds on Saturday.
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Ken Cope, a Texas delegate who had backed Cruz for president but will vote for Trump, said the New York businessman needs to "swallow his pride" and stress the contributions his 16 defeated rivals made to the primary process instead of belittling them.
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McMahon's staff -- played by the likes of Anthony Michael Hall and Topher Grace in under-written roles -- is intensely loyal, so much so that they join in freely belittling the president and vice president within earshot of the Rolling Stone reporter (Scoot McNairy).
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The tapes also contained several different belittling comments about women, including Carlson saying he wouldn't have voted to confirm Supreme Court Elena Kagan because he didn't find her attractive, in addition to saying women are "extremely primitive" and "just need to be quiet."
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They have cited staff for drunkenness; shoving, using other physical force and belittling children; for keeping kids in unair-conditioned rooms in mid-July at a shelter in El Paso; and in one case for having an "inappropriate relationship" with a child.
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"Given Donald Trump's well-known admiration for Putin and his belittling of NATO, the Russians have both the means and the motive to engage in a hack of the D.N.C. and the dump of its emails prior to the Democratic convention," Rep.
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I don't mean that in a belittling way, like she was fragile or a pushover, just that it seemed more like she was about meet a person she admired for afternoon tea rather than to attempt to publicly beat them into submission.
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But Trump has long set an example for the entire country of condoning sexual misconduct and belittling those who come forward as survivors — maybe it was only a matter of time before someone interpreted his boast as a free pass to assault women.
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However, a task force appointed by Snyder and the state auditor general placed blame for the high lead levels on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for not requiring Flint to treat the river water for corrosion and belittling the public's fears.
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When asked by CNN's Fareed Zakaria about Trump belittling former President Barack Obama for how his administration had handled a swine flu epidemic, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said she didn't "think the facts support that assessment" in a clip that aired Friday.
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On Long Island, Representative Lee M. Zeldin fended off an aggressive challenge from Perry Gershon, 56, a former real estate lender who jumped into politics after growing alarmed by what he called Mr. Trump's belittling of the press, of immigrants and of science.
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As a professional defender of Donald Trump, Conway has built an entire chapter of her career around belittling and dismissing the allegations of dozens of women who have come forth accusing her boss of sexual harassment, abuse and assault -- accusations he has denied.
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What makes Obama's case more unusual than his predecessors' or a Fortune 500 CEO's is that the president has spent the last four months belittling Trump and his candidacy, and just days before the election had called Trump unfit for the office.
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Mueller's team, which is investigating alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, has questioned witnesses about Trump's private comments in late July and early August, around the time he issued a series of tweets belittling Sessions, according to the Post.
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The border visit was "not going to change a damn thing," Mr. Trump said, belittling the plan as a photo op urged on him by "these people behind you," he said, pointing to Mr. Shine and a cluster of other communications aides.
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WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) - Leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have been rebuked for belittling the significance of the Nazis and criticizing a Holocaust memorial, but this has not stopped a small group of Jews from throwing their support behind the party.
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"Woke", briefly popular to playfully describe someone politically enlightened and on the left, peaked in Google searches in May 2017; it seems primarily to be used sarcastically, either by woke types themselves deriding the faux-woke, or by conservatives belittling the whole woke enterprise.
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The newly minted president-elect put aside his penchant for bashing the media and belittling his political rivals, instead repeatedly emphasizing that his next focus will be on unifying the country, which has been battered and deeply divided by the intensely vitriolic 2016 presidential campaign.
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The whole thing was pretty awful, with Bateman repeatedly saying "not to belittle it, but..." before immediately belittling her story anyway, continually minimizing Walter's experience as something that just happens on set sometimes and steamrolling her as she and Alia Shawkat tried to argue otherwise.
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Total political correctness has returned as a priority, only now the hanky-clutching arbiters of what is kosher to pronounce in public inhabit the right and earnestly turn up whenever they believe someone has gone too far in criticizing or belittling their anti-PC president.
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Rather than ignoring or belittling these concerns, Democrats should forcefully express that they are not in favor of distorting U.S. constitutional rights, and should clearly identify property right protection as an element of strategies preventing and mitigating the adverse effects of global climate change.
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The past two Republican presidents, George Bush senior and junior, will also stay away, as will their son and brother, Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, whose nasty, comedic belittling by Mr Trump in the primaries gave an early taste of his political method.
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And for all the belittling of "bird brains," she shows them to be uniquely impressive machines within their own evolutionary contexts — unrecognizably so to science, at first, because, though they have equally high concentrations of neurons, they're quite differently designed from our primate brains.
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You know, the thing that was really frustrating to me throughout both Vanity Fair and The New Yorker is the sort of belittling language that's used about women, which somehow is just very subtle but it's a way of sort of minimizing your achievement.
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Eventually, she pushed back on the offensive, rude, belittling things he said to her, but she made a good faith effort to explain herself to him until the very end — despite the fact that he'd given every indication that he wasn't willing to empathize.
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It's hard to tell whether it's a legitimate offer, or a snide geopolitical belittling of one of its fiercest critics, but Moscow has extended an offer to Ottawa to help battle the raging forest fires in Fort McMurray which have displaced more than 80,000.
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Here's the snippet from the indictments: To be sure, the tension between Sanders and Clinton was present long before the emails were released — it's one reason the DNC emails made such a splash, because members were privately belittling Sanders and his campaign in emails.
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But his warning might have seemed rather rich to his opponents, coming from a commander in chief who has made a habit of belittling his opponents, argued for days about the size of his inaugural crowd and peddled untruths about millions of illegal voters in the election.
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The committee's ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff, pointed to previous comments he'd made in which he said he had "serious questions about the truthfulness of Mr. Nix's testimony" in light of TV news footage showing him belittling the committee and explaining his use of self-deleting emails.
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Debate commission chief: Candidates should fact-check each other Rather than wait for his rivals to finish their attack, Trump might interject with a snide comment belittling the line or deploy one of his many facial expressions that will catch the attention of the television audience.
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There are different styles, and I'm not belittling the project of life extension, but I think quite a few critics of medicine have pointed out the advantage of a holistic approach to people's health and the kind of understanding that the best old-fashioned doctors had.
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She did not seem to be belittling the former Alaska governor in any way, though I should also point out — and this does not come through in the transcript — that Clinton uttered her "we're cooking up some moose stew here" line with a passable Palin impersonation.
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Spencer's Walker is even more hateful to her husband, belittling Underwood's C.J. at every turn and giving him absolutely no credit for her success -- even though it was her husband's father who allowed her to set up her first beauty salon and business in his home.
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Mr. Trump demonstrated that a presidential candidate could violate many political norms — slurring and insulting groups of people, attacking and belittling fellow Republicans, offering few policy details, refusing to release his tax returns — and still win the office without expressing much in the way of contrition.
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That criticism has taken many forms: the public humiliation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions; the belittling of investigators and prosecutors working for Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel appointed by Mr. Rosenstein; and the president's private threats to fire Mr. Sessions, Mr. Rosenstein or both.
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By publicly sending a dismissive, belittling letter about the negative experience of a woman veteran patient, Secretary Wilkie has sent a strong message to VA staff, including VA police, as well as women veteran patients and potential perpetrators, that he does not take this problem seriously.
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"Another Fake Book by two third rate Washington Post reporters, has already proven to be inaccurately reported, to their great embarrassment, all for the purpose of demeaning and belittling a President who is getting great things done for our Country," Trump said in a tweet on Saturday.
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He's not upset about the guns—honestly, after the zombie horde and the Wolves, everyone in town should be keeping a firearm in their home—he does berate Spencer for stealing food and booze from the community, calling him "small" and "weak," belittling him in front of everyone.
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" A Republican political operative and Capitol Hill veteran told me: "It doesn't take long for ordinary voters — who are very different from people in Washington — to start seeing participating committee members as pompous, rude and belittling, and begin to side with whoever is sitting in the hot seat.
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Barbara BoxerBarbara Levy BoxerOnly four Dem senators have endorsed 2020 candidates Hispanic civil rights icon endorses Harris for president California AG Becerra included in Bloomberg 50 list MORE (D-Calif.) on Wednesday shared her experience with sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, saying it was a "shaming" and "belittling" incident.
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"He's had a lot of success degrading and belittling his male rivals, but I don't think the attacks on Megyn Kelly or Carly Fiorina worked," Mr. Brock said, referring to the Fox News anchor and former Republican presidential candidate who both found themselves in Mr. Trump's cross hairs.
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Before his appearance was canceled, Macdonald had issued a tweet apologizing for his statements, saying that he was "deeply sorry" if it sounded as though he were belittling the people hurt by Barr and C.K. Roseanne and Louis have both been very good friends of mine for many years.
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In a study published in the journal Australian Social Work, 26 adults reported being estranged from parents for three main reasons: abuse (everything from belittling to physical or sexual abuse), betrayal (keeping secrets or sabotaging them) and poor parenting (being overly critical, shaming children or making them scapegoats).
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"Facebook is violating its most fundamental mission of building human connection, as well as the trust placed in it by billions of people, by advancing extremist far-right conspiracy theories that are aimed at denigrating Jews and belittling people of color," said Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change.
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"Even as we are lashed by the tsunami of slander belittling the government and leaders, I would like to say that we cannot build a future for a nation-state based on slander and personal attacks," he was quoted as saying in a report by state newswire Bernama.
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Instead of appealing to her in a reasonable, mature, respectful way, however, he chose the sarcastic, arrogant, belittling route of a bully -- and a mansplainer -- offering her detailed instructions on how to end the meeting, as if she were a child and did not understand the problem here.
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Orientalism is a foreign ambassador in an Arab city belittling popular concern about Palestine and depicting Arabs as a docile mass who only woke up in 2011, during the Arab revolts, and then reverted to being a disappointment to a benevolent West that merely seeks to be a good tutor.
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Although the police have tentatively concluded that the murder was not a hate crime—the suspect was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2008, and had been in psychiatric care as recently as last year—the man's explanation to the police that he "hated women for belittling him" has stunned South Koreans.
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But billing her San Diego speech on Thursday as a foreign policy address was also something of a ruse: It turned out to be an acidly funny takedown of Mr. Trump and his temperament, giving him the same sort of belittling treatment he had used on his opponents to great effect.
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Whether it's your mother punishing you for staying out past curfew, your abuela being unimpressed if you dare to talk back, or Cardi B being done with Nicki's constant shade and belittling of her success—the throwing of la chancla is a symbol for the fed up, exhausted Latinx women.
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When pressed on Trump's tweet expressing calm over North Korea firing "off some small weapons" -- a view at odds with his national security adviser John Bolton and then-host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- and belittling former Vice President Joe Biden, Mattis cited his experience as a retired Marine Corps general.
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Another factor cited by some who frequently dealt with the mayor involved his personality; he often lectures his staff during meetings in what people describe as a condescending tone, and he is known for berating or belittling subordinates in front of others or shooting off emails criticizing them in brusque terms.
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A law firm wants to withdraw as counsel to Rochester Drug Co-operative Inc ahead of a major trial in New York state court over allegations it and other drug companies fueled the opioid epidemic, saying the drug distributor stopped paying it and its chief executive office was "belittling" its lawyers.
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" In contrast, Rad and Pambakian's attorneys said the "ensuing crescendo of retaliation — reminiscent of many Hollywood #MeToo cases — included [Tinder's parent company] Match circling the wagons around Blatt, publicly belittling Pambakian by chalking up the assault to 'consensual cuddling,' and firing her months later after she refused to sign an NDA.
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He has joked that maybe Trump's election is his fault because he helped Jon Lovett write a belittling "Celebrity Apprentice" dig for President Obama's speech at the 2011 White House Correspondents' Association dinner — a humiliating evening for Trump that some think sparked his desire to avenge himself by running for president.
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The person who really needs advice in this situation is the C.E.O. Surely he or she does not want the organization represented in such a haphazard, indifferent way, with H.R. representatives belittling potential employees and sending them back into the world with a thoroughly negative view of the entire enterprise.
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It is an approach based upon the narcissistic wish to take what he wants, and to break the rules in doing so, whether that be breaking contracts or the rules of personal consent, defying the usual definitions of decency and truth, or belittling the essential structures of elections and a democratic republic.
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In her romantic relationships, she finds herself playing the part of either the one who is perpetually neglected (in her passionate love for women who treated her cruelly) or else the one who cruelly disparages, as in her fascinating, boggling, sadistic but devoted relationship with Leibovitz, to whom she was notoriously belittling.
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The earliest definition on Urban Dictionary from 183 describes the term thus: "Call her an E girl cause she's always after the D." It's an insult lobbed frequently on gaming sites, where any attractive or popular woman who games can be labeled an "e-girl" as a way of belittling her presence.
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When pressed Thursday on Trump's tweet expressing calm over North Korea firing "off some small weapons" -- a view at odds with his national security adviser, John Bolton, and then-host, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- and belittling former Vice President Joe Biden, Mattis cited his experience as a retired Marine Corps general.
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"To me, as much as it was embarrassing and it was belittling and it was sexist, I also saw it as a scare tactic to get me to leave with my tail between my legs and leave without asking the questions I was there to ask," she said in a phone interview.
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Trump's introspection was fleeting, however, and he soon returned to his familiar repertoire of hits, belittling his Democratic antagonists on Capitol Hill and at one point venturing that Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, did not have what it takes to suit up for Louisiana State University's top-ranked football team.
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Mr. Manafort's exit came as Mr. Trump had been trying to reboot his campaign after a disastrous stretch in which he committed a series of self-inflicted wounds — belittling the mother of a Muslim soldier who was killed in Iraq and threatening to withhold an endorsement from House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, a fellow Republican.
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But such slight variations of narrative form don't alter the fundamental message in play: a running litany of shape-shifting grievance, one that centers and celebrates the solitary genius of the narrator at the expense of a cultural and political establishment—big names, not so smart—hell-bent on mocking, belittling, and victimizing him.
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Mr. Trump's comportment on Tuesday threatened to undermine his gains of the past month, and recalled his practice during the Republican primaries and much of the general election of belittling political bystanders in language that alienated voters, like attacking the Muslim parents of an Army captain killed in Iraq and a Hispanic federal judge.
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" When asked if she thought a suspension of his Twitter account would be seen as the social networking giant trying to silence Trump, Harris said it must be agreed that a US president's words should be "not about belittling, much less harming, anyone" and said Trump is using "his words in a way that could subject someone to harm.
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While some Trump supporters roll their eyes at the president's belittling of Corker, they said they had no problem with his war with the NFL, which has conflated players kneeling over racial inequality in America with being anti-American and anti-military, and they don't feel the focus on the fight takes away from his legislative agenda.
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As directed by Dominic Cooke, and performed with nuance and conviction by a cast that includes Sharon D. Clarke in the title role of a volcanic blues singer, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," more than confirms its reputation as one of the most lacerating stage portraits of how racism is internalized by those caught in its belittling gaze.
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And I, almost each step of the way, countered with my assertion that, if bullying, belittling, or not considering the circumstances which lead him and Otis to meet in the first place were elements that were required of him in his role as a police officer, his job was bullshit and those elements had to be addressed.
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After all, the belittling of John McCain's P.O.W. ordeal, the disparagement of the Khan family (whose son was killed in combat), the "heel spur" exemption from the draft and the puerile acceptance of a Purple Heart medal as a gift from a veteran: Were these not enough to rankle others like me who served in combat?
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It is a convention among athletes and coaches alike that you never risk belittling an opponent — pretty much every coach who faced the news media after the draw uttered some variation on the phrase "there is no such thing as an easy game" — but for those three, in particular, it must have been tempting to break it.
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Biden turned in a feisty debate performance on Friday night, and cranked the attack on Buttigieg up to a new level Saturday morning, when his campaign released the most negative advertisement of the election cycle to date -- 98 seconds of mocking and belittling Buttigieg's accomplishments as mayor in a spot that appeared on Facebook and YouTube.
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Though my coworker and I had both devised ways to avoid the staffer beyond professional interactions (I had taken to strategically wearing headphones), there was something about the daily drip of passive-aggressive jabs, the unnecessarily personal remarks, the pointed, belittling questions interrupting our workflow — all under the thin guise of professionalism — that just added up for me that day.
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Long ago, when capturing video of the game you were playing was something only pros and highly motivated gamers (the term had not its current currency and was, at the time, pejorative or at least belittling) attempted to do, and with as little glory as attended such vocations and avocations at the time, there was special hardware just for doing so.
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It has been unclear to what extent Mr. Trump will be able to capture this core Republican constituency, because some leading evangelicals have spoken of being disturbed by his penchant for boasting about himself and belittling others, his pledges to deport Mexican immigrants and bar Muslims from entering the country, and his past support for abortion rights and gay rights.
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In the deeply personal, emotional and often funny book, the sisters, who called the White House home from 2001 to 2009, wax nostalgic about the administrations of America's 41st president, ("Gampy" George H.W. Bush) and the 43rd (dad George W.), when D.C was a gentler place, while taking care not to fault only Trump for what Barbara calls today's "belittling and demeaning" political dialogue.
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Additionally, Color of Change, one of the civil rights groups that was involved in the Freedom from Facebook effort and received unrelated funding from Soros, wrote to Gizmodo:Facebook is violating its most fundamental mission of building human connection, as well as the trust placed in it by billions of people, by advancing extremist far-right conspiracy theories that are aimed at denigrating Jews and belittling people of color.
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"Masvidal said he&aposll be visiting Trump in his Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, taking the opportunity to announce the news while belittling a rival — the MAGA-hat wearing wrestler Colby Covington, who had his jaw broken by Kamaru Usman in a recent title bout at UFC 245"We&aposve got an invitation to the White House so we&aposll be stopping at some point.
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Only the sincere application of public diplomacy can break the impasse; only President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE can initiate the diplomatic process, which involves numerous steps, the first being the cessation by President Trump of the use of negative and belittling language when talking about or to Iran.
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Read more:Real Madrid is reportedly considering spending more than half a billion dollars to snatch PSG's 20-year-old French forward Kylian Mbappe away from BarcelonaNFL POWER RANKINGS: Where every team stands heading into Week 11Thierry Henry says France can win Euro 2020 but warns Cristiano Ronaldo will want to go out on a high in what would be his last international tournament'Monday Night Football' commentator under fire after belittling criticism of 49ers kicker for missed field goal
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When then-presidential candidate Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE insulted McCain in 2015 for not being a "hero" because Trump only admires men who were not taken prisoner — and when he continued belittling McCain, even as the senator began treatment for cancer — it demonstrated, for all of America to see, Trump's true character.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Wednesday claimed total victory following Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's testimony to Congress, belittling the former special counsel's performance and statements about the Russia investigation.
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Here's a look at the people and institutions that Trump has set his sights on — all in recent days: The media The Justice Department The FBI Attorney General Jeff Sessions Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein The intelligence community Special counsel Robert Mueller Mueller's team of prosecutors New York state investigators and prosecutors Democrats on intel committees Unreliable GOP senators Be smart ... This adapts a classic Trump technique that he used during the campaign: constant, withering criticism combined with brutal belittling, in an effort to create tectonic shifts in voter attitudes.
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