| Its decision to remain outside the law demonstrates high-handed contempt for the rule of European Union law and must not go unchallenged. |
| Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence. |
| For all of the above reasons, the Applicants' motion for contempt is denied. |
| It is a criminological commonplace that it is counter-productive to pass unenforceable laws because this breeds general contempt for the law. |
| The Defence Secretary rattled through his performance with undisguised contempt for the military tradition he was liquidating. |
| His undisguised contempt for the press and his refusal to answer journalists' questions provoked grumbling within the White House press corps. |
