| 词汇 | example_english_discredit |
| 释义 | Examples of discreditThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. He discredited the then new theory that human beings had descended from apes because the proofs presented were purely anatomical. Elster clearly believes that he has discredited the loose interpretation. My view is that neither database should be completely discredited. We interpret this to mean that authoritarian regimes have been widely discredited across the continent. All of these efforts would be attempts to convert the discrediting situation into a less discreditable or completely creditable one. Although the record is mixed, events since 2002 have not really discredited these hopeful assessments. Churches were discredited and their role as agents of development has been curtailed. The scientific status of economics depended on the possibility of implementing free trade and laissez-faire in "real" countries and on discrediting socialist utopias. In this way opponents are automatically presented as conservatives; disposing of the old and discrediting opponents go hand in hand. Perhaps what discredited the system more was the implementation of market reforms for which there was no electoral mandate and which aggravated social tensions. In each case he points out evidence that convincingly discredits the causal link posited by the conventional account. In the textile industry's centenary volume, an anonymous writer declared triumphantly in 1951 that 'crude and corrupt methods have now thoroughly been discredited'. By controlled experimentation, as we shall see, such an interpretation has been discredited, and now preference reversals are generally accepted as real. Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma. Two features of colonial-era historiography, both discredited, make an unwanted appearance. Both concern over being discredited and concealing the pregnancy were experienced in relation to particular persons. The existence of one large and potentially unwieldy primary health care team is now largely discredited however. Political arguments drawn from analogy are discredited by placing them in the mouth of a tyrant. The discrediting aspects of stigma were operationally defined as being thought less of by other people. The crisis went some way towards discrediting the insider government-business relations. They did so because these beliefs had been discredited by the tumultuous events of the previous century. Moreover, his erratic memory discredits and displaces him as a narrator whose narration we would normally trust. Even though it has performed the useful function of discrediting technological determinism, the concept suggests too narrow a set of influences that shape technology. Her testimony on this was discredited, however, because she had not visited the school in person. The idea that ontogeny (the growth of an embryo) recapitulates phylogeny (the evolutionary history of a species) has long been discredited. Moreover, these errors have discredited the effort to find universals about family development. Apparently, being discredited as a science does not inevitably undermine such trust within our community. The sovereign artificer was discredited, the 'unencumbered self' revealed to be a fraud or a fantasy. In its awareness of its own subjective projection, the narrative voice itself discredits the elision of perspective entailed in physiognomy. Midwives as the traditional primary birth attendants were discredited, and women subjugated within the institutional machine of the hospital. Every environmental trigger - whether a crisis or non-crisis - creates the opportunity for structural change if it discredits existing institutions or raises concerns about the adequacy of current policy-making processes. Now, however it is claimed, when women make requests for obstetric technology they run the risk of having their choices discredited because they are not the ones expected. Here, and in other parts of the book, the author occasionally lends unnecessary credence to outlandish and scientifically unsupported explanations of tektites that have long since been discredited. Most of all, a program designed in such a way opens itself to charges of corr uption and unfairness and may end up becoming discredited in public opinion. The second was ultimately weakened by its association with credulity and with discredited attempts to prove that spiritual agents could be observed at work in the world. Earlier, on pages 136-137, he had discussed the use of ' discrediting mechanisms ' by those who do want to neuter the impact of diversity and disagreement on their cherished beliefs. A necessary condition for an incentive to critically examine one's conjectures is that the political status quo becomes sufficiently unattractive and the conjectures upon which it rests become discredited. As we noted above, challengers have a direct incentive to uncover the malfeasance of incumbents because they increase their probability of winning office once the incumbent is discredited. He thus indirectly exposed his own thesis to the peril of being potentially discredited; as the history of mathematics and science ultimately proved to us to be the case. The correlation between discrediting the idea of a 'moral motive' and denying the idea of intrinsic, absolute concepts of good and evil is a very close one. Bakhtinian stylization is therefore a subversive form of multi-voiced utterance, one that discredits hegemonic, monologic discourses by appropriating the voices of the power ful and reworking them for new purposes. The presupposition of the autonomy of syntactic structure from linguistic meaning is gradually being discredited, and linguistic meaning is taking the constitutive role in a new theoretical framework. While discrediting academic psychology, she takes in her str ide the child-rear ing experts who disseminate psycholog ical research, which explains the wide-spread popular appeal of her book. His very method of work discredits his achievement, at least by the standards of scientific orthodoxy. Although once highly esteemed, the rise of corporate agriculture and the negative environmental consequences of intensive crop and livestock production discredited the myth of the family farmer. However, when these were discredited it was on the basis that gross comparisons in terms of language teaching methods were too inexact to yield meaningful results. Indeed, our mental health laws work against the very aims of community care, becoming more and more discredited as tragic cases highlight their glaring limitations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The police are in danger of being discredited and placed in an invidious position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are both highly unrepresentative and the circumstances of their membership are now virtually discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thrift is being hopelessly discredited by the enormous burdens which are now being placed upon the locality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The use of the free school meals measure has been widely discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Almost everyone agrees that this discredited, out-of-date and bureaucratic structure, which has failed farmers, the environment and consumers, has had its day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Discredited though they were, they were supposed to be authoritative enough to deal with that part. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such measures are part of defending the integrity of the asylum system itself and preventing it from being discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They achieved nothing and the concept is thoroughly discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The report is certainly discredited as a statistical exercise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He knew too much and had to be discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We believe that they meet all the concerns which led to the perception that the community charge was not fair and which discredited the rates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They hoped either that it could not be enforced or that a jury would not convict because the legislation had been discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The policy of the quota has been discredited in every country where it has been tried. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When people are placed in a position in which non-violent methods are discredited because they are ineffective, we should not be surprised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Either the prosecution or the defence may be discredited in this way and the evidence concerned will lose, or will be thought to lose, credibility. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The directive would merely result in a failure, which discredited other genuine efforts on behalf of equal opportunities for women. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If clause 3 discredits ballots to strike, it also discredits a ballot to return to work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does he appreciate that the whole of our immigration policy has been discredited by that episode? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Has he not fatally undermined and discredited the only virtues ever claimed for the poll tax—that it would somehow be simple and would improve accountability? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there anything more likely than this to cause democracy to be discredited? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the chopping and changing of views, policies and principles and all their inconsistency have come about because they have seen their political credo discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not only was that force disarmed, but it was demoralised and discredited and has never fully recovered from that action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now, in many ways, his ideas have been discredited because we have had a series of agricultural revolutions which have transformed our society. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Indeed, you are right to stress the importance of applying these rights, as they are liable to become discredited if they are not applied. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Intervention will be discredited if this failure to act persists. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The earnings rule is really discredited, not as an abstract matter, not as a statement of general morals, but simply as a matter of practice. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The nonsensical idea that poverty and poor health were not related has at last, thank goodness, been discredited and discarded. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot see the discredited and rather corrupt politicians of the last régime being brought back by popular acclaim. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old ambassadorial system has failed, and is discredited in the eyes of most people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The system has been discredited and the harsh realism of the figures—a very substantial increase, well above the local authority budgets this year—underlines that point. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The point about the range of other vehicles that can be utilised has not been discredited. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Having failed the first interview, they used the present discredited, long-winded appeal system to spend as much time as possible in the area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The programme may be discredited, but the advertising did the trick—it got the message across to people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are committed to avoiding the very high bills which discredited the rates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not believe that the crisis has in any way discredited the concept of planning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Parolles, who has had his moments of verse during the play, enters the final scene wholly discredited, and speaking prose. In its traditional forms, the thesis has been largely discredited. When it comes to architectural theory, historicism in the strict philosophical sense is surely largely discredited. In the early twentieth century, examination of rhyme came to be discredited as a procedure for analyzing the phonology of language. The rest (and they are many) are either discredited or dismissed. One such influential doctrine of this order which, though now discredited in its strong form, still influences methodological thinking is the notion of" operational definitions". The church would only regain the influence it had enjoyed in previous ages, they felt, if it cut its discrediting links to the state. To put it differently, the moral of the small-state realism remained when small-state realism itself was discredited. Both the army and the regime were also discredited. How can the abstract notion or idea of authority remain sacred when all around its embodiments are being discredited? The final eclipse of "proletarian race hygiene" came when the notion that acquired traits could be inherited was discredited in biology. In the vari-directional case, the speaker voices the style with the intention of discrediting it (that is, parodies it). With the regime's popularity and legitimacy discredited by these events, it sought ways to find a new source of legitimacy. Generalisation from input without the pre-requirement for grammatical architecture or a symbolic system, for so long discredited as behaviourist, was now a tenable proposition. With science discredited, there was a need for alternative (and anti-realist) forms of staging. 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