Sentence examples for deliberate contempt from inspiring English sources

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Young was jailed in January 2013 for what the judge described as a "flagrant and deliberate" contempt of court.

But I have never before seen these decorative elements deployed with such deliberate contempt by Mr. Wilson, who first staged "Quartett" two decades ago.

Hinch still insists he is innocent of deliberate contempt of court and has not ruled out returning to prison for his cause, saying "never, say never".

Scot Young, 51, was said by the judge, Mr Justice Moor, to be in "flagrant and deliberate contempt" of the court for failing to disclose his financial assets to his wife, Michelle Young, 48.

Back in the early 90s Russia, I've been accused of "open and deliberate contempt for generally accepted moral norms," "malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence," "inflaming social, national, and religious division," "propaganda of brutal violence, psychic pathology, and sexual perversions".

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What is meant by "deliberately controversial content" is misogyny, racism, deliberate lies, contempt for the poor and vulnerable, etc.

On the day the Reading jury threw out the case - signalling their contempt by deliberating for just 90 minutes - the Crown Prosecution Service told reporters it had a duty to prosecute and, later, that its star witness, Professor Sir Roy Meadow, is still considered to be an expert in his field.

The contempt must be deliberate and intentional, and the question addressed to the witness must be pertinent to the inquiry authorized by Congress.

He constantly tries to do the right thing in songs that proclaim respect and love for women, creating a deliberate counterexample to hip-hop's contempt for them.

His speech is slow and deliberate, conveying a faintly ironic impression of intimacy – but also the occasional suggestion of contempt, as if accommodating his interviewer's stupidity.

Just as Vera Drake, about a 1950s illegal abortionist, was a deliberate challenge to rightwing anti-abortion sentiments, it is surely no accident that Leigh is now making a film about public contempt for politicians?

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