Sentence examples for broad contempt from inspiring English sources

Those who care about civil rights are correct to hold the line, to say that there are certain ideas that deserve broad contempt rather than a fair hearing.

The public's broad contempt for press coverage of the stupid stuff creates fertile ground for silencing legitimate, tough reporting.

But authoritarian experiments are also dangerous for the rest of the nation, because they exhibit a broad contempt for democracy.

Authoritarian experiments in individual states are also dangerous for the rest of the nation, because they exhibit a broad contempt for democracy.

The exercise by federal courts of any broader contempt power than this would permit too great inroads on the procedural safeguards of the Bill of Rights, since contempts are summary in their nature, and leave determination of guilt to a judge rather than a jury.

Political memoirs are normally unsurprising, but these two books are unusual for their defensiveness and occasional combativeness in the face of the broad popular contempt so many people expressed while Rumsfeld and Cheney were in office.

Basically the Directioners view Directionators as insufficiently dedicated, and hold them in the type of broad, vicious contempt you usually find in rival religious and ethnic groups.

But it also signals a broad-brush contempt for fundamental rights in this country.

But this time around — the bill was reintroduced this month — it is a bitter and broad-based contempt for Western diplomacy that is also fueling its resurrection.

However broad your church, some "contempts and enormities" are impossible to accommodate.

1.58am GMT 142nd over: New Zealand 399-6 (Watling 9, Southee 24) Southee continues to treat Broad with a touch of contempt, chipping him breezily over midwicket for two.