The penalties available to the house in cases of contempt include the power to summon a person to the bar of the house to be reprimanded, to imprison them and to fine them.
In that case lot of contempt happening right now! Good to see technology beat stupidity.
The federal judge overseeing the case held Mr. Welch and other prosecutors involved in the case in contempt of court, and the judge and the Justice Department opened investigations.
When there were 30-odd three-day matches in the season, captains' contrivances (and declaration bowling) got a bad press – a case of familiarity breeding contempt.
Played every year of peacetime between 1872 and 1989, usually as part of the long-gone British Home Championship or – latterly – the Rous Cup, its clockwork regularity became for many years a genuine case of familiarity breeding contempt.
You might suppose this is a case of familiarity breeding contempt: that spending one's days working with and writing about the fashion industry leads to the sort of ennui that means one could never relax and enjoy this new series.
Mr. Ibrahim said there had been at least 17 cases involving the charge of contempt of religion since the 2011 uprising that deposed President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.
There's been no action on the legislative level since January, while local judges have begun ordering the distressed public defense office as well as some private lawyers to take on cases anyway, under threat of contempt of court.
The commission said it was pursuing an additional case charging contempt of court against Phillip A. Flora, a serial text-message spammer who was barred in 2011 from sending unsolicited texts.
I find this scepticism – and, in the case of VS Naipaul, open contempt – towards any movement for progressive change fascinating.
In 1973, a Roanoke reporter covering the S.E.C. trial noticed that while the Thomas Road congregants who were packed into the courtroom regarded the S.E.C. lawyers with open hostility (or, in the case of a black lawyer, contempt), Falwell chatted with the lawyers between sessions, and even seemed to become friendly with them.
