Sentence examples for forms of contempt from inspiring English sources

That's because the present system allows parliament to establish new forms of contempt, such as hacking an MP's mobile phone.

"North Korea has proved its willingness to advertise all forms of contempt, racial or otherwise".

In the preceding period when there was no emigration from Turkey, Mexico's experience was characterised by undesirable and demographically challenging emigration, which led to a historical legacy of scepticism towards emigrants, with several forms of contempt in the society and even a sense of being betrayed.

As for social perceptions of emigrants, similar forms of contempt exist in Turkish society as well; the term almancı usually carries derogative connotations, and the subculture of emigrants are seen as traditional, backward, degenerative, or at best 'in-between' (Kaya, 2005).

Laws creating barriers between impoverished families and public assistance intended for food and shelter represent a particular form of contempt for the poor — we'll help you, these measures suggest, but we won't trust you with that help.

As Jeffrey Rosen, who writes widely about legal issues, has observed: "Discrimination usually implies some form of contempt for a class of people being singled out for disadvantageous treatment as a consequence of their shared characteristics.

Meanwhile, there is the terminally shy type, prone to be picked on (or perhaps even viewed as beneath that particular form of contempt), a seemingly unaccomplished sort who goes on to change the world.

It's really a form of contempt.

It was easy too, for that laughter to turn into a form of contempt.

The privileges of Parliament are set out in the, and the Singapore courts have held that the common law offence of scandalizing the court (a form of contempt of court) does not violate Article 14(1)(a).

They can and do scold, criticize, berate, mock, humiliate and threaten anyone who appears before their little fiefdoms -- parties, defendants, lawyers, witnesses, audience members -- and not merely "decorum," but the force of law (in the form of contempt citations or other penalties), compels the target to sit silently and not respond.