Sentence examples for considerable contempt from inspiring English sources

Another unexpected discovery was that the former dissidents had considerable contempt for "the people".

The sixth ball is larrupped away with considerable contempt for four runs to mid-wicket.

By the age of 15 he had become passionately engaged by the Labour victory of 1945, which was a powerful ingredient in his considerable contempt for New Labour.

Mr. Sarkozy's concentration on patriotism, protectionism, French values and his attacks on immigration and immigrants who do not assimilate into French life have prompted considerable contempt, returned in kind.

Since Stuart is apparently a well-off Wall Street type who evinces considerable contempt for his younger brother's shiftless ways, it seems incredible that he would park his new wife amid the squalor of Edgar's life.

"I was pained by the peculiar life of the women my age - in their 20s and 30s," she writes in Just As I Thought, "a lot of them with kids and a lot of them alone already, objects of considerable contempt but kind of tough, ironic, becoming angry; I'd begun to educate myself without knowing it".

A significant portion of the country was in the mood for one big do-over – a mood enhanced by considerable class contempt and the unmistakable urge to cancel the universal franchise for "stupid people" incapable of making the right decisions.

Judges are given considerable power, through contempt of court provisions, to enforce respect for the law and order in their courtrooms.

That pressure may be considerable, as a House contempt vote against Holder is guaranteed to focus intense media scrutiny on the Fast and Furious investigation, which has been condemned by both Democrats and Republicans as badly mismanaged. 

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Hall later wrote that "The bowling probably deserved all the lordly contempt with which Collins treated it, sending a considerable number of pulls full pitch over the fives courts into the swimming baths to the danger of the occupants".

There is little public support and considerable antipathy towards this totemic law seen by many as a symbol of Labour's contempt of liberty, but I am running ahead of myself, so let us recap.