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    1. 'They've been sent to discredit the allegations against


    2. can discredit most of the other witnesses and offer to pay


    3. the time, labour, and expense of acquiring the talents, but for the discredit which attends the


    4. beauty of the talents, and the discredit of employing them in this manner


    5. Those other banks, therefore, were enabled to get very easily out of that fatal circle, from which they could not otherwise have disengaged themselves without incurring a considerable loss, and perhaps, too, even some degree of discredit


    6. } During the great re-coinage of the silver, which was going on at this time, the bank had thought proper to discontinue the payment of its notes, which necessarily occasioned their discredit


    7. She maintained that Helez had made up the whole story to discredit her


    8. He’d known that morning that she was up to something when she’d left so suddenly after he’d turned her down, little realising that she would go to all this trouble to discredit him with Helez


    9. Her days were so filled with satisfaction now, it would be a discredit to all of those who’d died to claim she wasn’t exceptionally fortunate


    10. ” As such, the population growth could not be used as a reason to discredit the belief in reincarnation

    11. He dares not do anything which would disgrace or discredit him in it; and he is obliged to a very strict observation of that species of morals, whether liberal or austere, which the general consent of this society prescribes to persons of his rank and fortune


    12. In Scotland, custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men ; but not to the same order of women, who may, without any discredit, walk about barefooted


    13. In France, they are necessaries neither to men nor to women; the lowest rank of both sexes appearing there publicly, without any discredit, sometimes in wooden shoes, and sometimes barefooted


    14. It makes no sense! There’s only one reason to do this, and that’s to tear down my standing in the community or discredit me


    15. choices…that others who would diminish their value(s)… not to enhance however… discredit its reputation…whose parity lies


    16. There appears to be among Men of Science a Will towards God but nothing approximating the traditional Godlike Qualities that typify the faith of true believers but rather the assumption of godlike features originating from Reason‘s assault on Faith, that, having shaken its resistance, seeks to discredit the conventional propositions of Eternal Wisdom


    17. Such nations, I believe, should be treated with caution until evidence of good will has been properly determined lest the ―Trojan horse‖ achieves its global objectives by continuing to discredit and undermine liberal democracy within the framework of assumed alliances


    18. A journalist who enjoys a First Amendment right to obtain certain information as it relates to his or her pursuit of a ―storyline‖ should properly consider the sensibilities of the individual being interviewed; that questions raised should be fair and balanced and not intended to either harass, embarrass or otherwise offend that individual and that the highest (professional) standards should be (properly) observed at all times and that that journalist should neither conceal some hidden agenda nor interpose pre-conceived biases that purposely seek to discredit, distract or place that individual in a compromising position and that answers to stated questions should never be taken out of context or pre-determined and that, (most importantly), privacy rights should be observed at all times


    19. Therefore, Doubt has neither the power to extinguish or discredit an


    20. A formidable opinion must be willing to confront the testimony of other opinions that might otherwise seek to either refute or discredit its (tested) propositions

    21. Having abandoned all scholarly pretexts, many set off on their self-appointed course that sought to discredit all forms of traditional manners and customs that would eventually leave a moral and intellectual vacuum in its (nihilistic) wake


    22. Century as his base of operations, or words to that effect, to discredit Christianity


    23. It does not require a great deal of imagination to discredit traditions


    24. Emerging accusations of pedophilia directed against the Catholic Church have promoted a groundswell of opportunity for the political left, that for years has sought every means to discredit an institution that arguably remains the final bastion of traditional religious and moral values in modern times


    25. How long will it take for Republicans to wise up to the fact that (all) the entitlement and discretionary spending in (all) the world will never earn them the gratitude of Democrats and that every spending initiative that they (Democrats) would have otherwise supported, were they in power, further invites criticism? President Bush, the man who would be loved by all, continues to set himself up as an easy target by his political opponents looking for every plausible excuse to discredit him


    26. The government claim was that the screams were later dubbed in to discredit the Guardia Nacional


    27. But, because the story had been concocted that the Bush administration had outed her in retaliation supposedly for her husband’s attempts to discredit it (the administration), someone had to pay


    28. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a ‘religious crutch


    29. “Number Twenty-nine: Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis


    30. Even this is a very poor attempt with its sole intension to discredit the scriptural burial

    31. Still some of our teachers sow seeds of doubt and shame in the classroom, to their discredit


    32. Of course, he already knew about it and was hoping to use your involvement to discredit your family before his father


    33. Of course, perhaps it was only lies designed to discredit the family, he added


    34. big relationship problem, and so the search for ways to discredit


    35. By discrediting the messenger, they were able to discredit the message


    36. But the Jewish Left did more than just to discredit McCarthy and his message in its era


    37. The task for the Left was not simply to destroy McCarthy the man and the Senator, but to discredit the message


    38. anything they possibly could to discredit that kid


    39. to discredit Central Intelligence


    40. They try to eliminate or reduce them by attacking those opponents personally as in elections where all manner of past questionable behaviors of dissenting contenders are “dug up” to try to discredit the persons

    41. In a word, when Socialism’s worth is propagated through aspersions of individuals and Capitalism, as socialists do by maligning and trying to discredit the system of Capitalism, then Socialism’s weaknesses are masked and are harder to detect, but the results are still negative


    42. This authority, far from scare me, made me glad; it was as if I was directing a strange supernatural force despite the discredit that I had suffered in Eisenbaum


    43. Beatrice turned a deaf ear and whispered that she had never felt inclination by that young man and that the rumor was started by people who wanted to discredit her in the eyes of society


    44. Pon could be shot as a spy and then Tighe could discredit Thailand to the rest of the world


    45. Finally they agreed upon appointing five groups to go out among the people and seek to entangle him in his teaching or otherwise to discredit him in the sight of those who listened to his instruction


    46. In answering them as he did, while not claiming authority from John, he so satisfied the people with the inference that the effort of his enemies to ensnare him was effectively turned upon themselves and was much to their discredit in the eyes of all present


    47. It was their systems of teaching and practice which he sought to discredit


    48. It was also the opinion of the majority that a determined effort should be made to discredit him in the eyes of the multitude before he should be arrested and brought to trial


    49. At last, the Pharisees, Sadducees, and even the Herodians were all united in this effort to discredit Jesus in the eyes of the Passover multitudes


    50. It was the prearranged plan of the confederated Pharisees, scribes, Sadducees, and Herodians to fill up the entire day with these entangling questions, hoping thereby to discredit Jesus before the people and at the same time effectively to prevent his having any time for the proclamation of his disturbing teachings














































    1. Marx has been discredited as a philosopher, except of course for his mush-headed acolytes on America"s college campuses


    2. Sanitation and the water supply of the camps seemed a secondary consideration; and the issue of rations and suitable outfits to the army would have discredited a staff of school-boys


    3. Suspicious ‖suicides‖, in particular, do not seem to make much of an impression on liberal journalists eager to protect one of their own by glossing over the legal and ethical failings of their favorite sons and daughters (which is putting it mildly) and reporting them on page 23 of the Washington Post or the New York Times; that would otherwise have discredited a Republican Administration and brought it down to its knees


    4. Assumptions by modern revisionists seeking to belie historical traditions, avidly supported by special interests with political axes to grind, however discredited such assumptions oftentimes are, may further promote muddled-headed thinking by ultimately winning the battle of ideas, however questionable their premises, by perpetuating falsehoods that, on the surface, oftentimes appear plausible to variable, ―discerning‖ young minds armed with partial knowledge, but sufficient enough to receive distorted impressions at their face value, rendering many vulnerable to questionable or unlikely propositions that bear little or no resemblance to the truth; advanced by (political and social) deconstructionists alienated from their (hated) customs, offering in exchange, contemporary standards predicated on historical fallacies, deception, inflicted reasoning and ignominious viewpoints


    5. Nevertheless, race unquestionably influenced their decision although I believe there was something more to it than that; a feeling, perhaps, that workingmen and woman were somehow being marginalized; that is to say, their religious, moral and social values were being discredited


    6. In this manner are Deist assumptions that God created the universe however did not interfere with its internal affairs, discredited


    7. Truth, in whatever manner it is misrepresented or discredited, is oftentimes sufficient in itself to overcome the censorship of its harshest critics


    8. I would like to propose a hypothetical question to the progressive reader: If given a choice, which of the following options would you choose: having been created in God‘s (own) Image or having descended from the apes? Should you choose the former, how come so many of you are willing to embrace evolutionary arguments that have been widely discredited rather than entertain the Divine Wisdom of scriptural teachings that offer a more plausible explanation for our existence? Why restrict your beliefs to worldly perceptions or ideas encumbered by the limits of your (finite) senses rather than explore the wondrous miracle of the human imagination, both moral and intellectual, or ―a capacity for self-transcendence‖ (Reinhold Niebuhr) uncommon among the Beast?


    9. that four new regulations imposed by the EPA are based on thoroughly discredited findings of the


    10. imposed by the EPA are based on thoroughly discredited findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (U

    11. ’ However for most of them the term God does not adequately capture the depth of their experience, since it has been distorted, trivialized and discredited by mainstream religions and culture


    12. She insisted that I pay her to take the spell away but I was skeptical and immediately discredited everything she had said on the account that she wanted money to help me more


    13. And later still, Gertrude's girls entered also the hotel, without any objection of what this act might do to their already injured reputation, knowing that decent misses do not stroll under the night, in places so discredited like that one


    14. His stiff gestures discredited the ostentatious position that as Regent Magician was exercising


    15. I discredited it as trepidation (though strong as it were) caused by the history associated with such houses in countless forms of art and entertainment and nothing more


    16. Consignment was a solitary letter and a signed document that could, if exposed during the Revolution, have seriously discredited the Bolsheviks


    17. And he read how the whole thing had been discredited


    18. as a fraud, and how the discreditors had themselves eventually been discredited,


    19. During the previous weeks they had seen the gangs who were laying ties and tracks and no one paid attention to them because they thought it was some new trick of the gypsies, coming back with whistles and tambourines and their age-old and discredited song and dance about the qualities of some concoction put together by journey-man geniuses of Jerusalem


    20. They explained how their appeal advanced the true Gospel, not discredited Christ’s cause

    21. Known as the “social gospel,” it became popular among white liberals until the First World War’s atrocities discredited its emphasis on creating a global community


    22. She saw the queen of diamonds with her throat wounded by the steel of the jack of spades, and she deduced that Fernanda was trying to get her husband back home by means of the discredited method of sticking pins into his picture but that she had brought on an internal tumor because of her clumsy knowledge of the black arts


    23. If there is anything that this costly, cruel conflict should have taught you, it is that the age of imperialism is well past and should go, forever! The ideas and attitudes that went with that imperialism, like the smug and racist belief that it was the white man’s burden to civilize the rest of the world, have been discredited by the way so-called subhuman specimens, as the commander-in-chief of the Singapore garrison described Japanese prisoners he saw in China, outfought European troops during this war


    24. What if he painted with words? He discredited the notion almost immediately


    25. He fully understood all that Stan had explained, it made perfect sense; but Stan was just one man discredited at that, compared with teams of experts at the disposal of the Whitehouse


    26. By your indiscretion and your hostility towards her, you have potentially discredited our most effective military commander in that theater, Secretary Dulles


    27. Peace at all cost is a notion that has been amply discredited in Humanity’s history, sir, especially when those calling for peace are not the ones paying for it


    28. He has never openly discredited Hurd, but he has intimated it


    29. The slavish way he led the consortium during the Terran occupation of Ceres, using his pacifist convictions as an excuse to do nothing while the ISF goons of Zembelo basically looted the place, totally discredited him in the eyes of our citizens


    30. That simple act could haunt you for the rest of your life as a discredited affiliate marketer

    31. "Earth shattering" and "revolutionary" scientific discoveries and theories are discredited


    32. discredited council and angelical disgust without physical companion and green field


    33. The discredited Yadavs versus Modi’s promise of ‘hope’—it was a no-contest


    34. That a discredited cleric was being used to woo the minorities only reflected the bankruptcy of the Congress’s tattered secular vision


    35. But, his opinion is discredited and so is any anthropological evidence suggesting Keller is just a mere mortal slug like the rest of us


    36. “If ye wished,” he answered, “ye might say unto me, and say truthfully, and be believed: ‘Thou didst come unto us discredited, and we credited thee, forlorn and we helped thee, an outcaste and we took thee in, destitute and we comforted thee


    37. I should have removed the creature’s head a week later but before I could, three fellow courtiers discredited me in the eyes of the King and I fled into the forest


    38. “What happened to the men who discredited you?”


    39. He would insure that any report they dare filed with the council, would be discredited and destroyed


    40. “Even if they did not succeed entirely they reckoned it would in any case stir up the people to such an extent that the Chinese would be terribly discredited and more safeguards would be forced through to protect the population after 1997

    41. Then I discovered that all the charges of genocide against the Nazis at the famous Nuremburg trials have been discredited and proven to be false


    42. Any religious forms, any philosophical speculations, any policy, any art, any literature, any civilization, any barbarism, you please, if Christ may be but set aside, or His truth caricatured, or Apostolic Scripture kept out of view, or the Gospel discredited, or its faithful teachers deprived of their moral power


    43. Our direct knowledge of the psychology of the Pharisees depends on the testimony of Josephus alone, and his testimony is generally discredited on such subjects by the most learned men of both the Jewish and Gentile communions


    44. mostly discredited by the Assemblies of God and most other Christian


    45. In July 1975, Fletcher Prouty, a retired Air Force colonel and discredited JFK assassination conspiracy theorist, went on television to allege that Butterfield had been working as the CIA “contact man” in the Nixon White House


    46. Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality


    47. Mammy Richardson has been skillfully discredited as a witness, but she can defend herself a little too


    48. Its origins lie in a seminar I took back in 1996 under the tutelage of a now discredited stock market guru


    49. The discredited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of glory and grandeur


    50. The “buy on dips” mentality has been discredited in the current investor generation’s mind, unless the dip is very deep





    1. Disgruntled Catholics, (including the Clergy), operating within the Church, are precursors of The Antichrist; unwittingly paving the way for his eventual return; preparing a spiritual wasteland, confounding all aspects of Church doctrines and teachings superseding authoritative truths with (spiritually) vague and uncertain ecclesiastical notions pandering to the whims of an uninformed Conscience; discrediting revealed wisdoms and traditional customs inspired by the Holy Spirit


    2. The sixties injected narrow and intolerant viewpoints, uninformed ideologies that sought shatter core-values and social customs by discrediting traditional conventions, unlike preceding generations that sought to establish their own unique identity within the conventional framework of existing social and cultural traditions


    3. There is no question that the advent of recent hostilities, now elevated to a higher level, has re-awakened the dormant passions of tired old leftists (and their younger converts) who view this war as an opportunity to re-enact their most singularly egregious achievement; the discrediting of American Institutions


    4. retaliate the best way he knew how, by discrediting her business practices


    5. By discrediting the messenger, they were able to discredit the message


    6. No! Dorian was charming but with the vulgar delight granted by the learned gestures, that for fictitious, they are proclaiming to the screams its falsity and discrediting the one who carries them


    7. He had not succeeded in discrediting the evaluation, nor did he have a psychiatrist of his own to disagree with Bradford’s testimony


    8. It is not hard to imagine someone so distraught over the discrediting of Davis Keller and his movement, that revenge and murder were all this person could think of


    9. Whatever, and however, Darwin's theory has been interpreted, and intended to imply in the past, it could never conceivably succeed in opposing and discrediting the possibility that a Supernatural Being, or a ‘God’, is the Creator and Designer behind all things visible and invisible


    10. So far they’ve been focused on discrediting you, but it’s always best to be careful

    11. in a discrediting tone, „so I expect I should follow through with something more concrete


    12. Even if the money had been given merely to make him hold his tongue about the scandal of Bulstrode's earlier life, the fact threw an odious light on Lydgate, who had long been sneered at as making himself subservient to the banker for the sake of working himself into predominance, and discrediting the elder members of his profession


    13. Hence the ultimate result was that serious analysis suffered a double discrediting: the first—prior to the crash—due to the persistence of imaginary values, and the second—after the crash—due to the disappearance of real values


    1. Almost invariably, empirical evidence discredits such a hypothesis; naive yield-seeking seems to add value in the long run


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