Sentences with phrase «on contempt of»

In February 2014 I was pleased to be invited by the Law Commission, along with my City University London colleague Claire de Than, to discuss the draft version of a new report on court reporting, part of a wider consultation on contempt of court.

The Commission has provided quite a number of consultation documents, including one on contempt of court in other jurisdictions including Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland.

The English Law Commission earlier this week released its report on Contempt of Court: Court Reporting.

After conviction on contempt of Congress charges for refusal to answer some questions posed by committee members, «The Hollywood Ten» were blacklisted by the industry.

In summary, the Supreme Court's latest decision in the JSC BTA Bank litigation adds to the civil fraud litigator's toolkit: he can now raise a claim in conspiracy founded on contempts of court; he may be able to bring a damages claim for simple contempt; and he can sue in England where there is a good arguable case that a conspiracy has been hatched here.

Not exact matches

On a day when the next President of the United States treated the news media with contempt, Facebook accelerated its campaign to cozy up to the Fourth Estate.

«The face remains the best window we have on moment - to - moment changes in emotional response,» says Paul Ekman, a psychologist who, in 1978, co-published the Facial Action Coding System, a seminal, 527 - page reference tome of every possible facial muscle movement and how it maps to seven fundamental emotions (happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, anger, disgust, and contempt).

Jens David Ohlin, the vice dean at Cornell Law School and an expert on criminal law, said the issue of contempt is critical in the Russia investigation and that he would not be surprised if Mueller's team was actively researching it.

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.

These days, it seems you can't express an opinion without being bombarded with criticism and contempt from the opposing side, no matter what side of the political aisle you stand on.

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 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.

Vice President Mike Pence called former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of federal contempt of court last year, a «champion of... the rule of law» and said he was honored that Arpaio attended an event with him on Tuesday in Tempe, Ariz..

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.

I know that Michael Ignatieff will claim that he is perserving the democratic basis of Canada as the ruling party was brought down on an issue of CONTEMPT.

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.

They were smugly arrogant, masters of the teaching of contempt toward those who were on the other side of the «modernist» vs. «fundamentalist» wars of the early part of this century.

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 repentance.

The 20th century Jewish rabbi Abraham Heschel wrote concerning the Sabbath: «When the Romans met the Jews and noticed their strict adherence to the law of abstaining from labor on the Sabbath, their only reaction was contempt.

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.

Maybe people wouldn't look on the religious with such contempt if you all were not so deserving of it.

(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.»

Preparation is also necessary because of the fact that, as Straus discovered in his study, most of them look with contempt on the very missions from which they receive food, clothing, and shelter.

I have listened to the audio recording of the proceeding which is available on the internet (although Judge Martin tried to prevent its release by threatening the victim with contempt of court).

In their reaction against scientific scepticism, and scientific generalisation which were as sweeping and as prejudiced as any theological temerity, they failed to distinguish the root causes of the new unbelief from the arrogance of the unbelievers, and met with equal contempt and malediction what could only be properly answered by the careful separation of fact frompresumption and prejudice on either side.

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.

Isn't it a fact that it offers to us ways of thinking, behaving and acting that are played out on a vast arena by a privileged few, while the teeming others can only look on, wonder, stare, or pass by with incomprehension or contempt?

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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.

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.

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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 beings.

People still bear a burden of contempt from leaders and systems that reduce them to jobs to be done, votes to be cast, products to be bought or — let us be honest enough to add — data points on a rising line of worship attendance.

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.

This creates a type of double - consciousness; it leads to a «sense of always looking at one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity» (SBF 16 - 17).

Also, I thought that the RCC were a museum, well - stocked with sour - faced elderly men in long flowing robes and eggshells on their heads, who lived in an ivory tower of contempt toward everyone who sought to enjoy life [No, that's NOT the whole truth.

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.