Sentences with phrase «on contempt for»

I am worried about Guinean society, which is built on the oppression of the insignificant by the powerful, on contempt for the poor and the weak, on the cleverness of poor stewards of the public good, on the bribery and corruption of the administration and the institutions of our republic....

Not exact matches

2014)(affirming contempt sanctions imposed for failure to comply with order requiring the company to assist law enforcement with effecting a pen register on encrypted e-mail content which included producing private SSL encryption key).

In a 35 - minute hearing on Wednesday, Spath found Baker in contempt for his refusal.

Trump has made it clear — both during his campaign and since being elected — that he sees the media as untrustworthy and beneath contempt, and Spicer's attack on the press following the inauguration seemed a lot more sincere than his attempts to apologize for it.

The panel had been slated later on Wednesday to vote on whether to initiate contempt proceedings against Pearson, after he failed to show up last week for a deposition.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

A preliminary injunction against Zillow and one of its chief execs, Errol Samuelson, is set to lift on March 22, but a Washington state Superior Court judge has ordered an investigation into whether Zillow and Samuelson should be held in contempt for violating the injunction.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't haFor sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't hafor Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't hafor awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Oh, I knew the Harper Government ™ had nothing but contempt for the electorate — they're officially in contempt of Parliament — but as I watched him walking out on the reporters, I felt as if he were flipping me the bird.

In re-electing the Conservatives, the population writ large has absolved the government of the contempts against Parliament and the sooner the Liberals stop insisting on such stuff, the better for them and all of us.

On Monday, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, called Mr. Trump's attacks on Mr. Mueller and his team a «grave reminder of his utter contempt for the rule of law.&raquOn Monday, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the House Democratic leader, called Mr. Trump's attacks on Mr. Mueller and his team a «grave reminder of his utter contempt for the rule of law.&raquon Mr. Mueller and his team a «grave reminder of his utter contempt for the rule of law.»

So Sheldon's intellectual contempt for her is true enough on the level of impersonal «mind,» but she has what it takes to rule in this world.

The transparent contempt for the teachings of the Church, and the intention of creating dissident «Catholic» organizations bent on defeating (and if possible, changing) those teachings, are impossible to miss.

You keep dwelling on the government shutdown (strongly hinting that you are a GOPer trying to mask your contempt for Obama under a veneer of humanistic concern for your country) as a sole metric for determining third world status.

Many of us are shocked and depressed by the current state of America — its hardness of heart to the most vulnerable; its contempt for the poor; its violence abroad and at home; its corrupt sexual morality; its increasing intolerance and persecutory zeal (with ourselves as targets); and so on.

For all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentanFor all those who have committed acts of injustice by trusting in wealth and power and showing contempt for the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentanfor the «little ones» who are so dear to you, we ask your fogiveness: have mercy on us and accept our repentance.

Here is the Surgeon General of the U.S. by inference laying the blame for the AIDS epidemic at the feet of the U.S. government, the Roman Catholic Church, the conservative press («the stridently conservative Washington Times»), Phyllis Schlafly (whom he describes as «beneath contempt» because she opposed him on his proposed condom solution), and a sinister cabal of White House conservatives led by Carl Anderson.

An unyielding reverence to this book, leading to endless squabbles with and contempt for all who differ on any «jot or tittle», represents the single most defining characteristic of religion in my life.

(CNN)- Weeks before his arrest on a charge of attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama, an Idaho man taped a video pitch for Oprah Winfrey - expressing his contempt for government, offering secrets to solving global problems and proclaiming himself to be «the modern - day Jesus Christ.»

And beyond moral indignation at liturgical substitutes for goodness, the scorn which some prophetic passages pour on animal sacrifices suggests intellectual contempt as well.

a deep resignation to God's will, a surrender of ourselves, soul and body, to Him; hoping indeed, that we shall be saved, but fixing our eyes more earnestly on Him than on ourselves; that is, acting for His glory, seeking to please Him, devoting ourselves to Him in all manly obedience and strenuous good works; and, when we do look within, thinking of ourselves with a certain abhorrence and contempt as being sinners, mortifying our flesh, scourging our appetites, and composedly awaiting that time when, if we be worthy, we shall be stripped of our present selves, and new made in the kingdom of Christ.

Coleman notes the contempt for the disabled that is inherent in laws that would allow assisted suicide on demand.

Those who have contempt for the political world will ignore it by turning their backs on it, or they will treat it as a field in which the libido dominandi has unrestricted play.

(These facts were reported by agencies on the ground in Iraq for several years and then published in an important 2002 UNICEF report) I have nothing but contempt an disgust for this man and I believe that he should be ashamed for his part in that crime.

A distant relative of mine from the Deep South as a child refused to step outside his family's car parked on a Cincinnati street out of a sense of bestrangement, fear, and contempt for the residents of that (border) northern city.

If there's one thing all faiths can agree on, it's hatred and contempt for atheists.

The contempt for metaphysics, openly expressed on all sides, as e.g. in the slogan of the German positivists, keine Metaphysik mehr, did not mean that natural science was not to be allowed any presuppositions.

It isn't the fault of Republican primary voters that the Huntsman campaign combined seeming contempt for the Republican electorate with a middle - class tax increase and huge tax cuts on high earners.

Just as long as you accept that it's also my right to look on with contempt for people who stick their willies into holes that digested food comes out of.

... You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains the contempt of death and voluntary self - devotion which are so common among them; and then it was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws.

Yes I'm sure you've read things on the Internet and listened to others with an axe to grind against the church, but I sincerely ask that you go to lds.org to learn for real, unless you have no true interest and are only out to sow hatred and contempt.

CNN: In video, White House shooting suspect calls himself «modern - day Jesus» Weeks before his arrest on a charge of attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama, an Idaho man taped a video pitch for Oprah Winfrey — expressing his contempt for government, offering secrets to solving global problems and proclaiming himself to be «the modern - day Jesus Christ.»

«For a society premised on the inherent worth of the individual as its prime value, the most disturbing element is the evidence of a growing contempt for human beinFor a society premised on the inherent worth of the individual as its prime value, the most disturbing element is the evidence of a growing contempt for human beinfor human beings.

In the Carnegie Endowment study Estrangement: America and the World, Richard Ullman observes that «the most significant estrangement» of the U.S. in the past decade has been «from the entire idea of cooperation through a formal structure of international organizations,» especially the United Nations — an estrangement that has «verged on contempt» for the rest of the world.

Both are found In Contempt of Congress: The Reagan Record on Central America, The Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 8 - 9.

«It is imperative at this time,» a statement from the FBI's file on CISPES says, «to formulate some plan of attack against CISPES and specifically against individuals... who defiantly display their contempt for the U.S. government.»

Harrison also unfolds Augustine's insightful contribution to the science — religion debate, drawing out a number of valuable principles — not least, recommending restraint where issues are not clear, and avoiding bringing Christianity into contempt by arguing for false scientific opinions on the supposed grounds of scriptural warrant.

But the underside of admiration for her «philosophy» is a contempt for those deemed slackers and losers: in her world we all ain't on the same team, are we, and probably never will be.

Thus too the demoniacal may express itself as contempt for men — a contempt, be it observed, which does not cause a man to behave contemptibly, since on the contrary he counts it his forte that he is better than all who condemn him — In view of such cases the poets ought to lose no time in sounding the alarm.

Incidentally, the quality of mind and character of this journal's senior editor, Reinhold Niebuhr, that makes the deepest imprint on younger followers is the contempt he shares with John Milton for «a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.»

How can we operate on the basis of being boss and not feel contempt for students as underlings?

It's surprising to me to see so many people on this site shed utter contempt for their fellow man simply because they believe different things.

At a time when the doctrines of Joachim of Fiore (1135 - 1202) were rapidly spreading, the poor were especially vulnerable to the millenarianism of the Cathari, their attacks on the riches of the Church and the worldliness of kings, and their evocations of poverty and contempt for the body.

The piece (which truly is, in the words of the Italian blog quoted above «un odioso articolo») begins as it means to go on, in a tone of open ridicule (and incidentally, why, when these people are so utterly illiberal in their undisguised contempt for those trying to be faithful to the Magisterium, do we continue to call them «liberals»?).

He also wished to show that for all of communism's contempt for the narratives of traditional religions, it relied nonetheless on faith and dogma.

They also show contempt for the foolish luxury of gold and silk... All are equally black, all have dark blue eyes, all make the same music in unison... I have not seen nor heard their emperor... As far as I could understand from the interpreter of their resolutions, they have unanimously decided to make war throughout this whole year on the barley, raw as well as malted, and then on the summer and winter wheat, and whatever else are the best fruits... From the kingdom of the wicked jackdaws, the fifth hour, 1530.

The new historiography of American Catholicism teaches, sometimes subtly and sometimes overtly, a contempt for the Catholic past, and indeed for the American past — which seems a dubious base on which to build the American Catholicism of the future.

In this I am relying on a key passage in Dr. Johnson's essay on Milton in his Lives of the Poets, where he links Milton's politics and Puritan contempt for bishops with a notably intolerant personality:

A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday issued a summons to Fonterra Brands Lanka, the local company of New Zealand's Fonterra and four of its top officials to face contempt of court charges for not adhering to an earlier ruling that banned sales and advertising  of all Fonterra milk products.

I speak with contempt for an egg, while gnawing on a banana!!