Sentence examples for his contempt of from inspiring English sources
Lou Piniella, the Tampa Bay manager, is famous for his contempt of the base on balls.
The British author Alan Shadrake has lost an appeal against his contempt of court conviction and will begin a jail sentence in Singapore next week.
Arpaio's crime was willfully defying a court's attempt to halt some of these violations — specifically, his contempt of a federal court order that he stop racially profiling and detaining Latinos on nothing more than his suspicion of their immigration status.
Readers may recall that Wire star and fellow toff Dominic West expressed his "contempt of the Murdoch doctrine" at last year's MediGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, following James Murdoch's attack on the BBC in his MacTaggart lecture.
It seems certain that Tocqueville will continue to be invoked as an authority and inspiration by those sharing his contempt of static authoritarian societies as well as his belief in the final disappearance of class divisions and in liberty as the ultimate political value.
As the manager of $3.5 billion for Hong Kong-based Jardine Fleming, Asia's largest home-grown fund manager, he is vociferous in his contempt of traditional Japanese companies, regardless of how cheap they are.
WHEN he was the boss of Apple, Steve Jobs made little secret of his contempt for the process of selling to big businesses.
He was criticizing García, of course, condemning him for his sheer disregard of the guidelines, his contempt for any form of competition.
Robbins's notes on the show repeatedly sound his contempt for representations of Jews as "lovable schnooks," and his collaborators shared his concerns.
In the past, when these things came up, the president's big failing was his inability to hide his contempt for many of the people who occupy Capitol Hill.
Mr. McDonald has had an admirable career, though not one that remotely qualifies him to run New York City, and we wish he would do better at hiding his contempt for some of his opponents.
