Sentence examples for found to be in contempt from inspiring English sources

In November 2000, the magazine was found to be in contempt of court and fined £25,000.

Harper personally has earned himself the rare rebuke of being found to be in contempt of his parliament.

The minister confirmed that university vice-chancellors could, in the last resort, be found to be in contempt of court.

Her appointed lawyer, Franklin Schwartz, reminded her that she could face jail time if she was found to be in contempt of court.

In March, when the government was found to be in contempt of parliament – another precedent in the Commonwealth parliamentary system – Harper's government fell, forcing the 2 May elections.

On Tuesday, after the parents of the Hasidic track refused for months to send their daughters to school with the rest of the Sephardic pupils, they were found to be in contempt of court.

A far-reaching high court decision found me to be in contempt of court and went as far as condemning MPs for breaching the law if they talked with their constituents about their family cases.

She was jailed after a judge found her to be in contempt of court.

Notwithstanding Harper's generally assured stewardship of the economy, in March 2011 a House of Commons committee found his government to be in contempt after it failed to provide MPs with requested budgetary information relating to the costs of government proposals for anticrime programs, corporate tax cuts, and plans to purchase fighter jets from the United States.

In June former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was forced to step down after he was found guilty of being in contempt of court for refusing to write the letter.

In 1991, Burgess caused the then Conservative home secretary, Kenneth Baker, to be found in contempt of court for failing to stop the deportation of "M", a Zairean asylum seeker.