Sentence examples for measure of contempt from inspiring English sources

But others, already accommodated to spring, showed the storm a measure of contempt.

B1 Neediest Cases B4 ARTS E1-14 Berlin's Coda for Carnegie Germany allowed itself a measure of contempt for New York habits by warmly greeting the return of Franz Xaver Ohnesorg, left, from his tenure as executive director of Carnegie Hall to be the chief executive of the Berlin Philharmonic.

Then they burned it -- a measure of their contempt for a company that was no longer owned by the family that gave Thomaston its name, but had been bought by a multinational conglomerate and then shut down.

But the flow of distortions and lies came so thick and fast from the podium at the Tampa Bay Times Forum that it seemed as if the Republicans required them to justify the full measure of their contempt for the President.

White called it a measure of Rumsfeld's contempt for the Army that he didn't name a permanent Secretary of the Army to replace him until this past November.

Since the scam involved in the 2001 tax cut remains one of the wonders of modern political economy, it is a measure of our leaders' contempt for the intelligence of the public -- or maybe for the press -- that they think they can use the same tricks a second time.

Mr. Icahn characterized the poison-pill measure as an expression "of contempt for stockholders".

That payday lenders are allowed to charge triple-digit interest rates to struggling young military families is a measure of this administration's contempt for anyone beneath the top 1percenttaxax bracket.

And how exactly does a piece of software measure contempt in a face?

Fairly bait, standardly rave-led subject matter, with Zomby's default setting of contempt added in for good measure.

One of his most famous and funniest recent songs, "My Attorney Bernie," which he performs in his new show (to the lone accompaniment of his own abrasively percussive jazz piano), combines equal measures of admiration and contempt and may be the best song about the legal profession ever written.