Примери за discrediting

• The church would only regain the influence it had enjoyed in previous ages, they felt, if it cut its discrediting links to the state.

• In the vari-directional case, the speaker voices the style with the intention of discrediting it (that is, parodies it).

• All of these efforts would be attempts to convert the discrediting situation into a less discreditable or completely creditable one.

• The scientific status of economics depended on the possibility of implementing free trade and laissez-faire in "real" countries and on discrediting socialist utopias.

• Discrediting traditional ritual practice is a common feature of new religious movements.

• This discrediting of their ideological bases comes precisely when they begin to operate as legal political par ties.

• Lessons from social psychology on discrediting psychiatric stigma.

• 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.

• In this way opponents are automatically presented as conservatives; disposing of the old and discrediting opponents go hand in hand.

• Even though it has performed the useful function of discrediting technological determinism, the concept suggests too narrow a set of influences that shape technology.

• 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.

• Social stigma involves inter-personal perception and interaction by concentrating on traits, viewed by the person possessing them, as discrediting in the eyes of others.

• Stigma is a social attribute which is discrediting for an individual or group.

• 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.