Sentence examples for acts of contempt from inspiring English sources

The pardon will not protect him against subsequent acts of contempt of Congress or perjury.

Clean water advocates and concerned citizens across the nation will be monitoring a blockbuster Kentucky court case today, which will ultimately determine whether citizens can intervene in a state's gross mishandling of indisputable acts of contempt and egregious Clean Water Act violations by two coal companies.

For example, an act of contempt is an insult to the court and an interference with its judicial authority and therefore constitutes criminal contempt.

Since the sentence he received was such as he might have received for that single act of contempt, his conviction is valid.

"Taxpayers and ordinary bank workers will rightly view this as an act of contempt for the sacrifices they made since the financial crisis," said Rob Macgregor, national officer of the Unite union.

A statement released on their behalf called the no-show "an act of contempt for the people of Tower Hamlets".

The Spanish Football Federation said Villarreal were fined for the supporter "committing an act of contempt or disregard concerning racial or ethnic origin towards an adversary".

It was a brazen act of contempt for his constituents.

Many Sunnis took great pride in the Iraqi Army and viewed its disbanding as an act of contempt towards the Iraqi people.

She sued the bank three more times in three different states--claiming that when she tried to cash the settlement check, she was thrown out of the bank and subjected to other "acts of discrimination, contempt and terrorism". Ajuluchuku has filed at least 219 suits in federal courts around the country over the past four years.

And on October 23rd the outgoing Commission president, José Manuel Barroso, found out just how wrong it was.In an act of studied contempt, Mr Renzi's government published online the Commission's "strictly confidential" letter demanding an explanation for Italy's draft 2015 budget.