Sentence examples for a flagrant contempt from inspiring English sources

He launched a campaign to expose what he called "a flagrant contempt for the interests of the taxpayer".

The district court held that a flagrant contempt of the court in bankruptcy was committed on the 20th of February by the taking the property of Zier & Company out of the possession of its receiver, in whose hands, in the view of the court, it had been voluntarily placed; and that defendants Watts and Sachs were so connected with that transaction of to subject them to like condemnation.

In parliament today Ken Clarke gave a lusty defence of EU membership in flagrant contempt of the referendum result, but he enjoys an elder statesman's insouciant disregard for party lines and the consequences of defying them.

To many Clinton Administration officials, the affair exhibited flagrant contempt for the rule of law.

That said, the latest phase of Europe's sovereign debt crisis has exposed the quite flagrant contempt for voters, the people who are going to bear the full weight of the austerity programmes being cooked up by the political elites.

In books like "The F.L.N.: Mirage and Reality," he has traced the rise of a military-bureaucratic elite that, in his view, has led the country to economic ruin and civil war, displaying flagrant contempt for the people whose praises it ritually sings.

Here at home, Japanese citizens were put into concentration camps, in flagrant contempt for the Anglo-American tradition of equality under the law, and the ex-Confederate states remained what they had been for half-a-century, a collection of one-party, white man's governments.

Young was jailed in January 2013 for what the judge described as a "flagrant and deliberate" contempt of court.

A flagrant polluter.

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Francis received a flagrant foul.