Sentence examples for display of contempt from inspiring English sources

Having recently expelled a senior US diplomat for having met with members of the opposition, this move is the latest display of contempt for international opinion from Bahrain.

Reassuringly, it's not just those on the left who are furious with Osborne's latest display of contempt for the ordinary British taxpayer.

The ending, a haughty farewell to life, is also a grandly derisive display of contempt — Verdoux's, for a world that failed to honor his rare virtues, and Chaplin's, for a world that let itself be seduced by a Verdoux.

AS A display of contempt towards the sanctity of humanitarian assistance, a massacre, blamed on Sri Lankan soldiers, of 17 locally hired aid workers last summer takes some beating.

In what was widely seen as another ostentatious display of contempt for the process of international cooperation, Trump began the day by failing to show up for the start of the Saturday morning working session on gender equality.

In his Express column, "Osborne has lost all credibility with his budget threat", Leo McKinstry accused the chancellor of "gross irresponsibility" with "a desperate act of political intimidation" and "an astonishing display of contempt for our national interests".

Such outrageous displays of contempt for women cannot be allowed to persist in the new Egypt.

For the past three weeks, their media mentions have soared thanks to the Coalition and Labor trying to outdo each other with public displays of contempt for the party.

But we've certainly never had a president who displayed Donald Trump's combination of boastful claims about how devoted he is to the military and regular displays of contempt for those who have served or are still serving.

The other, Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm here with a libertarian orientation, asked the senators to oppose the amendment in order to make the "powerful symbolic statement" that the country has nothing to fear from "such pathetic displays of contempt for our system" as flag-burning.

In a sense, she succeeded in transforming the hearings into the kind of political theater that better-known dissidents like Abby Hoffman had made famous in the 60's, with her attempts at clownish humor and her displays of contempt for the process.