Example sentences of "be anathema to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , administrative arrangements can be countenanced which would be anathema to Hong Kong 's British rulers . |
| 2 | Such ideas tend to be anathema to the Army Board , not because they are against the creation of stronger reserves ; nor because of the difficulties of finding barrack accommodation and training areas in the cramped and over-populated British Isles ; but because the units withdrawn from the Continent would become vulnerable to pruning in some future retrenchment programme — reserves are always the first to go when cuts are demanded , since their size is based on subjective rather than objective judgments . |
| 3 | this is not to suggest that I function like a computer ( which would be anathema to me ) , for there is always something to react to , something new to learn , or to improve . |
| 4 | Why does the books business still have sale or return , a practice that would be anathema to other fast-moving consumer goods industries ? |
| 5 | I can see that England would be anathema to Fairfax . |
| 6 | Every composer has his own ideals , and what sounds well to one may be anathema to another . |
| 7 | This would be anathema to the Anglo-American tradition of business accounting , but would fit with the Continental European tradition . |
| 8 | It is the NACAB , which continues : ’ It is financially highly inefficient and imprisoning people because of their financial vulnerability should be anathema to a humane society . ’ |
| 9 | Although old-fashioned spheres of influence were anathema to the United States , there was a tacit acknowledgement of areas of primary leadership in the protection of Western interests from the cancer of Communism . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , there remains the issue of the ‘ popular front ’ and the ‘ united front ’ against fascism — both of which were anathema to a Labour Party hostile to the Communist Party . |
| 11 | Such Maoisms as ‘ Let a hundred flowers bloom ’ and ‘ Imperialism is a paper tiger ’ were anathema to Khrushchev . |
| 12 | High Church snobbery and cultism were anathema to him but his ripostes were as always stylish . |
| 13 | Roger Samways , Adviser for English and Drama in Dorset , was very progressive in outlook , holding views about children 's learning which were anathema to most right-wing Conservatives . |
| 14 | The days when teachers discouraged their pupils from reading Shelley and Tennyson , because these poets were anathema to Leavis , are now long gone . |
| 15 | It proposed longer-term measures for the reorganization of the industry , including the nationalization of mining royalties , amalgamations and some closures , Government aid for research and improved marketing , and a gradual extension of welfare services into family allowances , holidays , improved housing and some degree of profit-sharing , which were anathema to the owners and unwelcome to the Government . |
| 16 | That same Sunday , in the evening , there was played out in the Cabinet Room the sad farce of waiting for the telegram of conditions for the line of credit front Morgans ' in New York , relayed through the Bank of England , and containing when it came the terms which were wanted by MacDonald and Snowden , but which were anathema to half the Cabinet . |
| 17 | His views were anathema to me . |
| 18 | Unions were anathema to him . |
| 19 | Such claims were anathema to conservative thinkers , and a host of writers led by Adam Sedgwick and Hugh Miller fulminated against Vestiges and its influence . |
| 20 | wrote that Woods 's sportsmanship was never questioned and that drawn games were anathema to him ; he was always out to win . |
| 21 | They were anathema to all of us . |
| 22 | Gould 's self-confidence and his clarity of purpose moreover were anathema to Lear , whose life was buffeted by self-doubt and a scepticism verging on paranoia . |
| 23 | Normally lies and deceit were anathema to her , and she was angry and rueful that since meeting him she had twice allowed circumstances to trap her into using them . |
| 24 | The very idea of working from home should have been anathema to me . |
| 25 | However , such regulatory mechanisms have always been anathema to the newspaper industry . |
| 26 | And although the ANC has promised to share power in the subsequent government , the country will then be a short hop from the full-blown majority rule that has always been anathema to many Afrikaners . |
| 27 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 28 | Indeed , the view that unemployment and crime are related has not always been anathema to the Tories . |
| 29 | It had to be a British car , of course , since Pringle 's did so much business with the local automotive industry — not that Vic has ever driven a foreign car : foreign cars are anathema to him , their sudden invasion of British roads in the 1970s marked the beginning of the region 's economic ruin in his view — but he has to admit that you do n't have a lot of choice in British cars when it comes to matching the top-of-the-range Mercedes and BMWs . |
| 30 | These are anathema to the British corporate establishment . |