Sentence examples for and the contempt of from inspiring English sources

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He appears bemused but self-confident, and the contempt of the woman who backs away is withering.

CAIRO — The future of the Arab world, perched between revolt and the contempt of a crumbling order, was fought for in the streets of downtown Cairo on Wednesday.

Crown courts are open to the press and public but filming and recording is banned under section 41 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925 and the Contempt of Court Act.

It is that the rules of evidence and the contempt of court laws are there to try and prevent an uneven playing field between the prosecution and the defence.

The Tories argue that the bill will replace a "piecemeal" approach to protecting the press, which under current legislation is covered by a raft of different acts, including the Human Rights Act, the Police & Criminal Evidence Act, the Data Protection Act, the Defamation Act and the Contempt of Court Act.

And you think of the teenage years, of defiance for defiance's sake, of assertive mockery and the contempt of selective deafness, of constant jockeying for power in a relationship suddenly destabilized – of this fathers-and-sons thing that stretches back 152 years to Turgenev and a further 2,500 years to Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

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Furthermore, as is the case when carriers work with other marketplaces, the carriers ePolicy represents can avoid the stigma of selling directly to consumers -- and risking the contempt of other agents.

There is a view among many editors and journalists that the Contempt of Court Act is too restrictive.

It was the first time since 1973 that food stamps haven't been part of a farm bill, and it reflected the contempt of the far right for anyone desperate enough to rely on the government for help to buy groceries.

Though their legal objections were unsuccessful, the Grillos' lawyers must have been taken aback by the way in which the media, the newspapers in particular, played fast and loose with the contempt of court law.

But now this, too, is required of him, and with his usual private excuse that he is doing it purely ironically he rolls over again, resigning himself once and for all to the contempt of history and his own conscience.

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