The true Tory position was revealed in August in the contemptible report produced by the Conservative majority on the Home Affairs select committee: not just the rejection of a ban on handguns but the repudiation of a host of other more modest ideas.
The 18th century statesman and political philosopher did, however, write something along similar lines: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle," he noted in his Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.
She wrote to Leicester: We could never have imagined (had we not seen it fall out in experience) that a man raised up by ourself and extraordinarily favoured by us, above any other subject of this land, would have in so contemptible a sort broken our commandment in a cause that so greatly touches us in honour .
As we've witnessed in the massive waves of layoffs to protect profits, in the despicable tactics of those in the big bank and finance companies, in the contemptible treatment of customers with health problems by the insurance companies, they are heart-LESS.
Child soldiers are often obedient perpetrators of atrocities, as has been noted in the contemptible use of children by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
Mr. Romney has sought to taint the centerpiece of Mr. Obama's security record, the killing of Osama bin Laden, calling White House disclosures about the raid in Pakistan "contemptible".
Given how broadly unpopular the Vietnam War was, it may be that "some dope here or there" engaged in such contemptible behavior, said Todd Gitlin, a Columbia University professor of journalism and sociology, who was a prominent figure on the antiwar left in those days.
A poor villager named "Bahani," gave his life while the Voice of America was touting U.S. influence in this contemptible situation.
He finds Obama's position "dismaying" and even quotes British political philosopher Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle".
