Sentence examples for risk contempt from inspiring English sources

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Even to report what Mumtaz told me is to risk contempt of court.

Personal debasement is not easy for white people (especially for white men), but to retain the conviction of their superiority to others especially to black people they are willing to risk contempt, and to be reviled by the mature, the sophisticated, and the strong.

"The hope is that the city understands as of now that this is a valid ruling and there is nothing problematic about it and has to complete this process in good faith or risk contempt findings by the court until it can appeal the decision," said Ms. Samant, the lawyer for the plaintiffs.

You can only perform one civic duty at a time, so vote today and risk contempt of court charges?

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Risking contempt of court, I replied that Meier is a very conservative architect.

We could only report Meadow's evidence by risking contempt actions, which we did, time and again.

The media produce prejudicial pre-trial reports which, just a few decades ago, would have risked contempt of court charges.

For many years, President of CBS who risked contempt of Congress for the freedom of the television press.

It found that a district court entering such an order "should craft terms that provide the defendant fair notice of what conduct risks contempt and clearly inform the defendant of what he is ordered to do or not do".

By feeding from the same source — Ellsberg — that the Times employed, the Post is risking contempt of court, and its lawyers, who fear reprisals from on high, advise severely against going to print.

In the EFF's words (in a brief filed last week), it "puts her in the situation the Fifth Amendment was designed to prevent: having to choose between incriminating herself, lying under oath, or risking contempt of court".

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