make+remarks

  • 51foot-in-mouth disease — noun A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate. They attempt to straddle all issues and, consequently, when a slip occurs, the result is foot in mouth disease …

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  • 52First Balkenende cabinet — Netherlands This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the Netherlands …

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  • 53deride — de|ride [dıˈraıd] v [T] formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: deridere, from ridere to laugh ] to make remarks or jokes that show you think someone or something is silly or useless = ↑mock ▪ You shouldn t deride their efforts. deride sb as… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 54critique — 1 noun (C, U) an article, book etc expressing judgments about the good and bad qualities of something such as the work of a writer or artist (+ of): The final article is a critique of John Updike s latest novel. 2 verb (I, T) AmE to make remarks… …

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  • 55deride — verb (T) formal to make remarks or jokes that show you think someone or something is silly or useless: You shouldn t deride their efforts. | deride sb as sth: Wayne was derided as a mere playboy …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 56philosophize — also ise BrE verb (intransitive + about) to make remarks about the nature and meaning of things as if you were a philosopher …

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  • 57relevant — relevant, germane, material, pertinent, apposite, applicable, apropos are comparable when they mean having a relation to or a bearing upon the matter in hand or the present circumstances. Something relevant has a traceable connection, especially… …

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  • 58ARGENS, JEAN BAPTISTE DE BOYER° — (Marquis d ; 1704–1771), French novelist and deist. Using the then current method of ascribing bold ideas to fictitious foreigners (as for example Montesquieu s Lettres persanes), Argens chose to couch his religious and social criticism in the… …

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  • 59Hermeneutics — Gadamer and Ricoeur G.B.Madison THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: ROMANTIC HERMENEUTICS Although the term ‘hermeneutics’ (hermeneutica) is, in its current usage, of early modern origin,1 the practice it refers to is as old as western civilization itself …

    History of philosophy

  • 60Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 — The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that officially ensured the deregulation of financial products known as over the counter derivatives. It was signed into law on December 21, 2000 by… …

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