We think it's a highly significant appointment which ought to be welcomed by the detractors of our president's policy.
Quotes about detractors (16 Quotes)
We had 10,337 people in the seats last Sunday, ... No church, no mosque, no synagogue in Michigan came close to that. Anybody like me is going to have detractors ... because I get things done.
Yes, there's a reason why some detractors, and even fans, prefer to call the long-running British band ''Depressed Mode.
Those who want the president to resign may go first if they wish because the president plans to continue the work she has started. These detractors have no plan for the nation at all. The president has not violated any law and is not charged with any crime.
It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was surrounded by a bake house, a milk house, a smokehouse, a chicken house with '44 big hens,' a workhouse, a cow house, and a barn that housed '30 big horned beasts.'
The Seahawks have done a fantastic job of trying to get all the business side of it and get all the tickets and rooms and everything situated for families. Trying to have that all set up and be as easy as possible for us. I think it's gone very smoothly. That is one of the major detractors from the game, just having to worry about all the other stuff.
There'll probably be some detractors. ... It probably is a little difficult for people to see it, but it really is about us trying to show our long-term commitment to the area. New Orleans is a very important city in America. It's a city that cannot be abandoned by this country.
Although Einstein enjoyed almost universal acclaim in his day, history has exalted his genius still further by forgetting those few detractors who did exist. . . . Herbert Ives, a physicist for Bell Laboratories, remained unshakeably opposed to relativity, though the Ives-Stillwell experiment which bears his name is generally interpreted as a direct corroboration of Einstein's theory 'His Ives' work on the so-called tranverse Doppler effect, performed with Stillwell in the period 1938-41, is one of three crucial optical experiments which, taken together, lead inductively to the Lorentz transformations as used in the special theory of relativity in a sense it, more than either of the two, may be considered as the cornerstone of the special principle of relativity, as formulated years before by Einstein. . . .' (Howard P. Robertson, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, 1956) 'The 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light is not merely 'ununderstandable', it is not supported by 'objective matters of fact' it is untenable, and, as we shall see, unnecessary. . . . Also of philosophical import is that with the abandonment of the 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light, the geometries which have been based on it, with their fusion of space and time, must be denied their claim to be a true description of the physical world.'
The president's detractors should know when to throw in the towel so that we can already get on with the real business of the people.
Always there will be, along the sidelines of life, inferior souls who throw mud at those whose attainments they do not quite understand. The man who really accomplishes doesn't pay attention to such detractors. If he did, he'd be on their level. He keeps an eye singled on the higher goaland the mud never touches him.
Gail didn't want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times' enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other.
There are detractors of ethanol, who given the opportunity, always like to blame ethanol. The facts suggest otherwise.
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this .... The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents.... Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.
The detractors from our successes might want to congratulate Saddam Hussein on his ability to hide them or destroy them, ... But there's no doubt in anybody's mind, including people like France and Germany and others, that he had weapons of mass destruction.
Each member is allocated a budget that he or she can spend at his or her discretion. The same criticism could be said of the quality of upholstery on the office furniture or any other disbursement ... It's public, it's disclosed, and members can defend it to their detractors.
Cleveland backed the gold standard, which detractors believed hurt the farmers and small business owners. Sibley did not support that...(and) had the wherewithal to stand up in Congress and tell the president he was wrong.