Sentence examples for increasing contempt from inspiring English sources

Commentators write glibly about the public's increasing contempt for politicians, and yet what goes unremarked, and is equally damaging, is politicians' growing contempt for us.

As poverty increases and reliable employment becomes less and less the norm, the dwindling number of workers with any sort of job security or guaranteed pensions (think teachers and other modestly compensated public employees) are being viewed with increasing contempt.

Yet in truth, he outgrew the NOI strategically and intellectually some years before the final breach, and stayed within the organisation, parroting lines for which he felt increasing contempt, out of blind allegiance.

Beijing's gradually increasing contempt for Europe's human-rights discourse, already apparent during Akmal Shaikh's disgraceful trial, is becoming more pronounced as the west's economic leverage over China has been replaced by China's leverage over the west.

In The Hunger Games, the rich and powerful control the Capitol and dress in grotesque Gaga-ish costumes while the poor live out in the Districts and are treated with increasing contempt.

Jorge Bustamante, a United Nations official in Geneva dealing with migrant rights, has said that this would breach Thailand's human-rights obligations, since workers might also be asylum-seekers.This argument is unlikely to sway a government that shows increasing contempt for refugees.

The combined experience of 'I can't recall how difficult it was' and 'I did it myself' can lead to decreased compassion and increased contempt for others in similar straits.

Dominic Grieve, the attorney general, has revealed that even before he was appointed to his post he was concerned about increasing media contempt for the 1981 contempt of court act.

Socially, it creates a feedback loop of mutual contempt and increasing division.

Four out of five of the "quality" broadsheets, which used to regard the red-tops with a mixture of fear and contempt, are increasing their circulation; but the most remarkable performance is that of the mid-market Daily Mail.

After 10 years of international isolation, contempt and increasing poverty, Serbs are wary and watchful, unsure if their new, democratic leaders, swept into power so quickly, will behave as they should, and unsure how much longer the people can endure the hardship -- rising prices, power failures, ruined infrastructure -- that is Mr. Milosevic's legacy.