Other Americans were frankly contemptuous of the Dutch policy, which they regarded as softheaded.
"I know a lot of tutors who are almost contemptuous of the families, " he added.
Filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter depicted Rolland as a self-important popinjay, contemptuous of any palate other than his own.
He was openly contemptuous of his college examiners, contemptuous of people with contrary opinions, contemptuous of ordinary people.
For a museum of design, MAD seems oddly contemptuous of the design elements that went into these commercial products.
This is a lousy time to have a president in the White House who is, apparently, contemptuous of Winston Churchill.
In fact, he was contemptuous of Livni and of the very notion of peaceful coexistence between the Palestinians and Israel.
This includes a priceless one on whether journalists, who are usually "contemptuous of bourgeois morality", should "fool around in the office".
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While General Musharraf is contemptuous of Ms Bhutto, whom he accuses of looting the country, he appears genuinely to hate Mr Sharif.
Autocrats in Beijing are contemptuous of India for its messy, indecisive democracy.
"The TFG is a joke, " he said, wearily contemptuous of what he saw as the clan interests that masquerade as a national government.
They do so because the British media, largely cynical, condescending and even contemptuous of our partners in Europe, fosters the impression that the British people think likewise.
Others are frankly contemptuous of their competition in the government.
Still, more than his recent predecessors, he is contemptuous of the idea that Liberalism and Labourism are natural partners whose separation in the early 20th century should now be reversed.
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Then again, its most clamorous supporters are also contemptuous of the Second Amendment, and they are explicitly hoping for a fifth Justice to overturn the Supreme Court's landmark gun-rights rulings.
Mr. Camp is contemptuous of the Democratic inclination to "demagogue every Republican proposal, " such as last year's Democratic television ad showing a Republican tossing an elderly woman in a wheelchair off a cliff.
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But the dangers are evident to anyone who travels a few miles out of Skopje, to an area controlled by well-armed, cocksure, ethnic-Albanian fighters, contemptuous of all politicians and enjoying some popular support.
But to come up with a few declarations or protocols and ask the Irish to vote again would not just be contemptuous of democracy: the turnout and margin of defeat also suggest that it might fail.
Two weeks ago, the United States took an important stand against the United Nation's record of feckless and contemptuous treatment of human rights issues - and its abject failure to take meaningful steps to take long-overdue corrective actions.
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No other dictator today matches his record of war, oppression, use of weapons of mass destruction and continuing contemptuous violation of international law, as set out by unanimous actions of the U.N.
His earlier, vociferous denunciations of Israeli housing-construction activities, combined with his highly public, contemptuous mistreatment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contributed to the widespread perception in the region that what he rhetorically insists is the "inseverable bond" between the United States and Israel has, in fact, been greatly weakened.
The absence of any penalties for such behavior has only served to reinforce the Arabs' contemptuous disregard of American injunctions to act.
From Iran, he got a contemptuous rejection of his extraordinary offer to enrich uranium for it.
This assertion has recently been used to excuse the UN's diffidence to (or, more accurately, its contemptuous undermining of) Washington's policies towards Iraq.
The chancellor Denis Healey's contemptuous treatment of his Liberal opposite number and ostensible colleague, John Pardoe, has become the stuff of political legend.
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The ruling mullahs' contemptuous handling of Iran's presidential election was their response to "the Cairo effect" announced a tad prematurely by the White House.
In the latter regard, it is hard to imagine a more blatant and contemptuous dismissal of U.S. concerns about Russian involvement in the transfer of missile technology (in direct contravention of the Missile Technology Control Regime and bilateral agreements with the United States) than the reported involvement of former Soviet air transport assets to deliver North Korean Scud-C missiles to Syria.
His mien is that of the contemptuous guerrilla fighter, mixed with that of a truculent teenager.
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