Sentence examples for cause contempt from inspiring English sources

The new Public Order and Security bill would allow police to ban public demonstrations in particular communities for up to a month and would criminalize statements that could cause "contempt or ridicule" of the president.

The other recent laws allow the police to ban public demonstrations in certain instances for up to a month, and make statements that could cause "contempt or ridicule" of the president a crime.

This will cause contempt amongst those people who you want to be your friends.

Under the proposed law, hate speech would be broadly defined as direct or electronic communication that "advocates hatred," incites violence or causes contempt or ridicule.

Whereas this might once have been cause for contempt, nowadays, perversely, it makes him more trustworthy.

Some people also blame prominent truth-challenged individuals, but we shouldn't mix up cause and effect: contempt for expert advice is what created the Trump bandwagon, not vice versa.

I don't like what it stands for, the opinions its presenters express, their casual delight in causing offence, their contempt for anything that doesn't reflect their smug, moneyed worldview (though I suspect James May might be OK – the occasional programmes in his Toy Stories strand often end up reducing me to tears with their joy in their Sisyphean pointlessness).

Among the laws that chill journalistic expression is Section 124A of the penal code, also known as the sedition law, which criminalizes any expression that causes "hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the government".

But Forsyth, who was an unapologetic partisan of the Biafran cause, reserved his deepest contempt for the British government, which supported the Nigerian blockade.

Don't just sit on your butt and let your roommate do everything; that will cause them to have contempt for you.

He was later found to have violated the order, causing it to morph into a contempt of court case.