Sentence examples for contemptuous words from inspiring English sources

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Military law dating to 1776 specifically prohibits "contemptuous words against the president" and other leaders.

Further, the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits commissioned officers from using "contemptuous words" toward high-level government officials.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice lays down that an officer who has "contemptuous words" for the president can be court-martialled.Retired officers can say what they want, and a number have done so.

But these pats on the head reflected their wishes rather than his: in the contemptuous words of a Turkish opposition leader, Erdoğan still had the style of a maganda – a boorish lout.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes it a crime to criticize superior officers and prohibits troops from uttering "contemptuous words" against civilian leaders -- say, members of Congress, the secretary of defense, or the president.

Last year as chief prosecutor, Colonel Davis publicly suggested that a Marine defense lawyer for a detainee might be guilty of a crime for using "contemptuous words" about the president when the marine questioned the fairness of the Guantánamo system.

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Except that there is truth in the contemptuous word "clicktivism".

Saddam's contemptuous last words on the gallows about "Persians" - along with Americans and "spies" - struck a familiar chord in a Sunni world that is increasingly obsessed by an ancient enemy.

Bush used similar contemptuous "little words" several months later, ironically in an interview with the same Martha Raddatz while discussing the shoe-throwing incident in Baghdad.

This was a contemptuous play on words.

Fifa's officials had to decide if Maradona had breached Article 58 of Fifa's discipline code by "[offending] the dignity of a person or group of persons through contemptuous, discriminatory or denigratory words".

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