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For a decade critics have derided me as a China bull for arguing that China's economy would continue to see robust growth.

The children derided her for her fear of the snake.

But maybe the word has simply become tainted and is seen as a proxy for that other dreaded and derided phenomenon, bureaucracy.

By 1980, he was launching CNN, although it was not until the Gulf war that the often-derided channel came into its own.

Germany, by contrast, derided a decade ago as the sick man of Europe, is being held up as a model, at least when it comes to jobs.

The fox ran forwards to the meat and derided to him: "if you were wise, you could be the king of the birds. "

Alan Greenspan has been derided for his naive surprise that bank boards did not act in the best interests of shareholders.

Jack Welch, much admired for his achievements as chair-man of General Electric, was later derided for his retirement perks.

Facebook has disguised the system as a simple upgrade to Flyers , its much-derided system for selling cheap ads on a self-service basis.

Where Democrats derided her background as a small-town mayor, she replied that such experience gave her a feel for real Americans.

The floor speaker of South Korea's opposition party derided the revised agreement as an 'economic attack' and a 'humiliation. '

All this is true: but the old Mr McCain, who derided the religious right as "agents of intolerance" , would not have stooped to that.

She also derided Barack Obama's agenda, asking "How's that hoped change thing working out for you? "

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Ma, 22, a model from Beijing, has won plaudits for her stylish appearance, but is equally derided for her material girl image.

A former CBS News executive derided blogging as "a guy sitting in his living room in his pyjamas writing what he thinks" .

So few are the options that even a ratings downgrade of American government debt in August spurred buying of the derided Treasuries.

Moreover, Colonel Qaddafi is far more isolated and derided by his fellow Arabs than Mr. Assad is.

Those who disagreed with him feared reprisals if they spoke out, and those who did were humiliated and derided.

Without being specific, Zuckerberg derided some large internet companies, saying they won't make it past a social networking revolution.

For many months, we have been teased, even derided, for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism.

During the presidential campaign, Gore was widely derided as both pompous and incapable of deciding what he actually stood for.

Among many Iranians, an unfamiliar emotion is evinced for the long-derided Arab: envy.

Although Roubini is derided for being excessively bearish, he too believes China will collapse due to an excessive allocation of investment.

The boys all derided him as he failed to climb over it.

As an occupation force in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US became sucked into the nation-building that Mr Rumsfeld had long derided.

When Thatcherites first mooted privatisation it was derided as an impractical dream.

He is derided as charmless, even by some in his own party, but the martial aspect of opposition politics will suit him.

Interestingly, the much derided Facebook Beacon was perhaps the first mainstream application of this type of functionality.

Mr Obama has been derided for leading from behind, but he was far from alone in his hesitations.

A bigger foreign presence means shoring up a Somali government widely derided for corruption and infighting.

They felt Reagan and the SAG board had "screwed" them and derided the compromise as "the great giveaway. "

Across the Atlantic Ocean, the Puritans give their betrotheds useful thimbles instead of rings, which are derided as frippery.

Jordan's Hall of Fame speech has been derided as being childish, vindictive, and a show of poor sportsmanship.

Not long ago US officials derided Canada as a haven for movie piracy, lumping it alongside copyright scofflaw China.

Other extravagant promises (a plot of land for every family, for instance) are derided by economists, but lapped up by the credulous.

At the time, the paper was largely ignored, if not derided by many senior policymakers.

It was a slightly curious, much criticised and derided tactic.

MobileMe, rightly derided for being buggy and expensive, is expected to get a major overhaul to tie in with the iPhone 5's launch.

They think it is a revamped version of an earlier, much-derided scheme for a "grand canal" from Seoul to Busan.

Rather, he insists, firms once derided as copycats and scofflaws should be seen as essential allies in entering new markets.

BRENTWOOD in Essex is an unremarkable town, once derided as the most boring in Britain.

Ever since Rick Perry derided Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, economists and other pundits have jumped into the fray.

It is much derided for interrupting our work, but its interruptions are as nothing against the noisy, intrusive, brutal telephone.

But their punishment was widely derided as a mistake when Washington Mutual and Lehman failed.

Some Internet users were divided over Wu's smile, some saying it made them feel calm and warm, while others derided it as stiff.

Even so, on the much-derided British side of the business, any improvement is encouraging.

According to the theory of uncompleted transaction, some action and economy result must be derided by negotiation again.

He eventually embraced the gay community that he once derided as a "hedonistic lifestyle, " joining a gay father's group in 1985.

Its stimulus measures, once derided as puny, have delivered a bigger bang for the buck than anyone expected.

Big software firms derided the idea that anyone would put their trust in free software written by mysterious online collectives.

They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed or derided, and their confidences will be honored.

Others have been quietly shelved or derided as monuments to corporate excess.

Critics have derided "Special Trains to Death" as a response to the first exhibition.

Goleo has been derided for having little relevance to Germany, whose national symbol is an eagle.

But they felt in a bind, because critics had derided the initial July stress tests as too weak.

A spokesman for Bank of America derided Mr. Blodget's analysis as "exaggerated and unwarranted claims. "

Steve Ballmer, the boss of Google's arch-rival Microsoft, has derided the search company for being "a one-trick pony" .

What happens when the much-vaunted democracy of the internet meets the much-derided elitism of the style set?

Critics derided it as the "Empty State Building, " and it was not profitable until 1950.

Perhaps a human-rights dialogue between China and the EU, long derided by liberal critics, is actually doing some good.

and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity in a world of lies.

Economists and analysts have habitually derided India's inability to attract FDI.

Lawyer and author Gordon Changwas derided as a Chicken Little for his 2006 book "The Coming Collapse of China. "

He derided the surrealists as 'leaders of modernistic imbecility'.

Mr Sadr was once derided as "Ayatollah Atari" , a nickname denoting his love of computer games.

"We are derided for how we dress, how we go about our laborers in a common society, " Jeffs said.

He was instantly derided by most of the Parisian intellectual elite.

The old continent's economies are widely derided for their rigid markets, high taxes and lack of entrepreneurial vim.

The selling means that Chinese stock valuations, in the past derided as crazily optimistic, are at remarkably sober levels.

Some have derided our federal courts as incapable of handling the trials of terrorists.

The king is widely derided for spending too much time abroad, allegedly buying birthday presents, such as a yacht for Queen Rania.

Derided for the blandness of its output during the 1980s and early 1990s, Fiat dared to start thinking outside the box.

Derided as awkward and underpowered , the PC jr. never caught on with kids or parents.

In the 1960s and 1970s he was a hate-figure for the left, derided by many as wicked, loony , or both.

China's wine, long derided by drinkers outside the country as cheap swill, has taken one tiny step toward respectability this week.

China's stock markets have been derided as casinos.

At first , Robert Fulton's plans for his steamboat were derided as chimerical nonsense.

India's is battered by scandal; Pakistan's is widely derided (see article).

The tweet derided Chinese people who supported with the Chinese government by protesting Japanese products.

In some solidly Labour cities, the reform is derided as a "Tory" gimmick.

Pakistan's government is weak and generally derided.

For many months, we've been teased , even derided , for talking about hope.

What do World Cup fans think about the country's much derided viticulture ?

Yet at the same time, we see scientists derided as fuzzy-brained eggheads or as coldly ruthless, emotionless makers of monsters.

Zhang Zhaozhong of China's National Defense University, who pointedly derided the "low level" of Indian technology.

He is frequently derided as someone with no real power.

The second reason for optimism is India's much-derided democracy.

Japanese are derided the United States come up with their own well-known sake, just go to drink rats, rats on a drunk.

Clinton's effort to mandate school uniforms, for example, became emblematic of what liberals derided as presidential tinkering.

Japanese are derided the United States come up with their own well-known sake, just go to drink rats, rats on a drunk.

Clinton's effort to mandate school uniforms, for example, became emblematic of what liberals derided as presidential tinkering.

AMONG classic-car buffs California is widely derided for its lead in setting pollution standards in America.

And when we treat religion as something to be derided, dismissed, or destroyed, we risk amplifying its worst faults.

I was entering a territory I'd long scorned and derided.

but computer mice were derided in 1983.

Here, when you are mocked and derided by all, I will meet you.

For example, capital punishment for white collar crimes in China that has been derided in the Wall St. Journal.

Two years ago, Burma staged a general election that was widely derided as a sham,

be an object of general derision, ie be derided by everybody