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Rodriguez was benched during last season's playoffs and has been ridiculed for repeatedly failing in October.
The fund was shunned by Wall Street and Bogle was ridiculed by the industry.
This past year, the GOP House submitted a budget, which was summarily rejected and ridiculed.
Take the list of names ridiculed at Deadspin and originally assembled in a Parents magazine poll.
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Travolta is ridiculed by his "buddies" over the relationship but, of course, love conquers all.
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In particular, her answer when asked to describe her foreign policy experience was widely ridiculed.
So how did the approach that Democrats once ridiculed become part of their dogma?
Miss Montesinos says any complaints she makes about the behaviour of her father's lawyer are ridiculed.
He ridiculed the Liberal Democrats for describing the Budget as a "Robin Hood Budget".
For 18 years, the watch industry rejected and ridiculed the coaxial and its inventor.
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But many rural and working-class whites adore her, and resent the way she has been ridiculed.
On April 1 of last year he ridiculed regulators for blaming Lehman's problems on rumor-mongering short-sellers.
If people were worried that their ideas might be ridiculed by the group, the process would fail.
Hussain struggles to describe how people ridiculed her in her community in Kashmir, where infertility is taboo.
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Welcomed by some, ridiculed by others, Belfast's first private family planning clinic opened its doors last October.
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If he fails to properly evaluate his sources before he uses them he must expect to be ridiculed.
Until recently, Thailand's prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, ridiculed those who suggested there were terrorists lurking within his country.
Advocates of robust economic growth are very used to being ridiculed by those who say it cannot be done.
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In the case of "Da Vinci, " audience members laughed at some of the film's dialogue and ridiculed its melodrama.
These uniforms will be ridiculed on social media for a while and do their job of grabbing brief attention.
Ford won plaudits for trying, but his peace ship was ridiculed by the smart set as the pipedream it was.
At the same time, the center publicly ridiculed other courses, such as one on the culture of the Beat Generation.
"It looks like a hot dog pizza, " he ridiculed, as his two culinary colleagues, also in white coats, cracked up.
Crew or Banana Republic, safe stores whose merchandise will prevent him from being ridiculed or from standing out too much.
If Cavallari wore the same exact outfit that Lena Dunham was ridiculed for that day, would people have lashed out?
For a man who spent his first months as Prime Minister being ridiculed as "Bambi" Tony Blair has shown an ability for ruthlessness.
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He ridiculed the prevailing legal view of the time that the Sherman Antitrust Act protected small merchants against large.
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Last year, for example, the state had to toss out questions related to a passage that was widely ridiculed for being confusing.
"When we published these findings in 1997, we were ridiculed, " they said.
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