Or they mocked the fact that Apple is trying to take such a big role in education.

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The irrational one is obvious though: those in petty authority cannot bear to have that authority, meagre as it is, mocked or questioned.

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If it is not met in two or three years' time, it will not be Lord Irvine who is mocked in the tabloids, cross-questioned on television, besmirched as the young thugs' friend.

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He famously mocked the idea of American exceptionalism, deriding her as indistinct from Britain or Greece.

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Heck, if Jesus was mocked in his day, it's no shock Ray Lewis, Tim Tebow or anyone else today will be ridiculed.

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Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey is being widely mocked for a bill to ban the use of human embryonic tissue in the production or research of food.

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