Exempel på detest

• We detest the practice and feel ourselves insulted whenever a book of the trap kind is put into our hands.

• Throughout his career he detested the suffocating complacency so often found in faculty culture.

• He dealt with them as individuals, quite liking some, detesting others.

• They might be detested or mocked, but they could certainly not be ignored.

• It must have been galling to retreat so publicly, especially for a man who detested the status quo.

• The increasingly apparent linkage between confession and sedition was grist to the mill of those evangelicals who detested the traditional theology of penance.

• Conscription was a par ticularly detested and resisted practice.

• Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be an extraordinary achievement.

• Different from me, who detests them.

• Among other things, he tells us, they were staunch advocates of diversity, detested sexism and racism, favored social democracy and face-to-face community relations, and spoke out against foreign military adventures.

• As such it is inevitably the language of an elite, however defined, and for this reason many impoverished people detest it - mainly because they do not have access to it.

• It has become clear that old-age institutions, once deeply detested by the migrant population, are now seen differently by their children and by some older immigrants.

• I detest the campaign of arson and anarchy that is going on at present.

• I detest and abhor with all my soul any exploitation of the grievances of soldiers.

• Alas, many obnoxious blood sports remain in this country, but none is more detested than hare coursing.