One of my seminary professors taught that typically pastors will have a 10-percent disapproval rating from their congregations on any given day.

His approval rating crashed to 45 per cent, down 14 percentage points in a month, while his disapproval rating rose 13 points to 49 per cent.

It was this lack of communication that caused a rising disapproval rating for his conduct of the war.

This was the highest disapproval rating amongst all denominations surveyed.

Net disapproval ratings of all four leaders have risen during the summer break.

On the plus side, it earns you the right to express disapproval when they turn up with someone you don't like the look of.

The case-law establishes that the court's discretion to stay proceedings should not be exercised in order to express disapproval of official conduct.

The government has attempted to popularise the anti-smoking message with a series of official hand gestures to be used to express disapproval with another person's smoking.

If you deprecate something, you express disapproval of it.

Yet few of us would express disapproval of them, by word or deed.

And then it must deal with the prejudice and the moral disapproval that surrounds the issue.

Fines register moral disapproval, whereas fees are simply prices that imply no moral judgment.

Crucial social norms that bound together traditional kin-based societies - cousin marriage, levirate marriage (marrying your brother's widow), polygamy - were either condemned as sins or became the subject of moral disapproval.

But it wasn't precisely a moral disapproval.

Those with no such basic training will inevitably respond to the self-indulgent temptations that lead them into personal degradation and public disapproval.

Every subsequent meeting has become a barometer of public disapproval.

In those circumstances, the player tries to avoid public disapproval.

The suite of emotions and involuntary responses to public disapproval, which all but sociopaths enjoy, have lost their moral anchor.

Public disapproval of tax avoidance, coupled with the government's clampdown, has resulted in the number of marketed avoidance schemes falling from 116 to 28 this year.

By the 1800s the word boo was widely used to show disapproval.

Fans can have a go at the judges but mustn't show disapproval of the acts under any circumstances.

They are concerned for the integrity of the social order and show disapproval of others.

Protest can be seen as actions that show disapproval of particular policies or events (typically instigated by the government).

Additionally, some coaches advocate running up the score to make another point, such as showing disapproval of comments made by opposing players, coaches, etc., in the media.

The police do not need to get involved for a simple reason — social disapproval has eliminated the problem.

Drinking and driving plummeted not because sanctions became more punitive, but because of the power of social disapproval.

While these adverts imply social disapproval, they may have the opposite effect.

Our sensitivity to social disapproval, the involuntary reddening, the feelings of guilt and mortification: these help us to survive.

It was only when the ball-tampering scandal became public, and coaches and players could encompass the scale of social disapproval, that some kind of equilibrium was restored.

If you go about with that dismal face and strong disapproval, it will really seem as if it was the having your dominion muddled with that you dislike.

Western governments expressed strong disapproval, while the material generated intense interest from the public and journalists.

The event sharply divided students and faculty, with some showing support for the act of pieing and some showing strong disapproval.

She falls in love with him and eventually marries him, in spite of all his faults and strong disapproval of her aunt.

In 1930 this plan was revealed to the residents of the region and was met with strong disapproval.