Sentence examples for from a contempt of from inspiring English sources

The White House extended executive privilege as a feint to protect Attorney General Eric Holder from a contempt of Congress charge (which may still proceed); should the full Congress press the charge, federal statute mandates that the justice department (which Eric Holder leads) convene a grand jury to prosecute it.

While this usually protected them from a contempt of Congress citation, it was considered grounds for dismissal by many government and private industry employers.

The March For Trump was only permitted on condition that no one would march along the river into Whitehall, where, at 1PM, Tommy Robinson will once again attempt to be freed from a contempt of court sentence by the dubious medium of bellowing Millwall fans lagering-up and hunting down an antifa or two to knee in the cloaca.

People have been gossiping about a footballer and the proposal is to get their details from Twitter and get a contempt of court action against them.

The reason for this could vary from someone being vulnerable to avoiding a contempt of court.

A Federal Court has summoned F. Lee Baily, the lawyer and executive director of the union, to appear Wed nesday to answer a contempt of court charge stemming from alleged failure to heed the ear lier court order.

Mr. Seeger's career carried him from singing at labor rallies to the Top 10, from college auditoriums to folk festivals, and from a conviction for contempt of Congress (after defying the House Un-American Actinithes Committee in the 1950s) to performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural concert for Barack Obama.

Beyond trying to defend a dead man from the contempt of his children, the prosecutor has argued that Ms. Sheehan had several motives to kill her husband; only weeks before the shooting, she had told her daughter that she wanted to get a divorce.

Joe, you're an iota away from contempt of court," the judge growled.

As the Bush administration tries to build international consensus around a new, perhaps less punitive sanctions regime against Iraq, the reaction in the Iraqi capital runs from the contempt of Saddam Hussein to something resembling a weary, believe-it-when-we-see-it shrug among the 23 million ordinary Iraqis who have endured a decade of incremental misery.

In an order filed before their release from indefinite contempt of court sentences, the judge said the three had agreed not to violate his order barring protesters from blocking access to two abortion clinics.