Sentence examples for regard with contempt from inspiring English sources

It is barbarism of a kind that might be found in a country whose legal system the United States would otherwise regard with contempt.

This time Zen is in Calabria, in remote southern Italy, a region he and other northerners regard with contempt, particularly its food.

Mourners filled the Community Protestant Church on East Gun Hill Road in the Baychester section of the Bronx and lined the streets outside, closing ranks with a woman they said exemplified the unheralded hazards and heroism of a profession that many New Yorkers regard with contempt.

The latter's unorthodox millenarian views are regarded with contempt by most senior clergy, while Khamenei has never been accepted as a scholar of note.

Red-carpet spouses are usually regarded with contempt by the fashion press and keenly scrutinised for supposedly idiotic "civilian" style mistakes.

It happens in The Bells Go Down (1943), made to enhance the dignity of the auxiliary fire service, a volunteer organisation regarded with contempt by professionals.

The assassination bid made him out to be a patsy, someone regarded with contempt by his Israeli counterpart.Even now, hopeless as it seems, some sort of agreement with Hamas offers the only remote prospect of a peaceful way forward.

On a final note, a strange misogyny also runs through the novel: while there's plenty of admiration for the magnificent dead and the fictitious (Cleopatra et al), real women in Letty's world are regarded with contempt.

Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler was equally indifferent to accommodation and Western opinion once it achieved rearmament; Hitler signed treaties with the intention of keeping them only as long as the terms suited him, regarded with contempt those who tried to accommodate him, and cowed foreign leaders with tantrums and threats.

The Pakistanis were openly racist; they regarded with contempt and had often tried to suppress the rich Bengali culture; they had no intention of allowing the Bengalis' leader, Sheikh Mujib, to take up the position that was rightfully his after he won a national general election.

Since these actors have demonstrated that series TV can be a way out of the career doldrums, and since such shows are no longer regarded with contempt, it's become easier for actors to shift from one medium to the other.