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I will not have the Prover name held up to ridicule.
None of your blameless personal life will be held up to ridicule.
Above all it held up to ridicule the idea that political decisions should be taken within a moral framework.
His recent triumph was being held up to ridicule.
Yes, the quotation held up to ridicule is long.
The principle of subsidiarity will be held up to ridicule, as it has been for the past 12 years.
The term "politically correct" had not yet been held up to ridicule by a dumb television talk show.
Those who pile on the hyperbole by the digger-load are to be held up to ridicule.
Jay Mac is also not held up to ridicule."
"If it's all done verbally, with nods and innuendo, then it can be held up to ridicule."
Caesar can't be held up to ridicule, even by the finest poet in the history of Rome.
"We are being held up to ridicule and I am willing to take action and to take it immediately."
Only conservative women have their looks held up to ridicule because only liberals would be so malevolent.
Her every aesthetic - in clothing, home design, movies and music - is held up to ridicule for its conventional artlessness.
He'd be held up to ridicule, or worse, accused of all the ugliness inventive minds could conceive.
And my country is held up to ridicule in front of the entire world as a bunch of lawless international gangsters?"
He is best known for employing his skill in holding up to ridicule the peculiar foibles of the Dalmatian folk.
All the things we were taught to believe in, love of country, of Empire, of devotion to duty, are being held up to ridicule."
He also launches a personal attack against Aeschines, whom he holds up to ridicule as born of low and infamous parents.
They were held up to ridicule for their accents and their "obscure" origins by the progeny of the "blood of Israel."
Satires are cultural texts in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule.
So they had nothing to lose by being held up to ridicule, and gained exactly what they want - a bigger audience for their insane rantings."
Their idiosyncracies and weaknesses had been held up to ridicule with mordant wit and subtle irony.
"On the other hand there was a gnawing suspicion in his guts that if he selected an improper name he risked being held up to ridicule."
They also say: "No religious belief or practice may be held up to ridicule and no religious group may be portrayed as inferior."