After the district judge ruled against him last year and Astorino was threatened with a contempt of court citation, he asked the county Legislature to reintroduce the bill he had vetoed.
It is exactly this fundamental misinterpretation (coupled no doubt with a contempt for the 10th amendment) and resulting worldview that allows him and so many other aspiring power brokers to become entirely unbounded as to what the federal government can get itself involved with.
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Gulping down his envy with a chaser of contempt, a Roman found himself less awed than offended by Egypt.
Deference, the coping mechanism now spurned in Britain, lives on in a surprising number of places, happily co-existing with a generalised contempt for politicians.
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The contempt vote in Issa's committee last week fell along strict party lines, with Republicans supporting a contempt recommendation and Democrats opposing it.
The committee vote last week was on strict party lines, with Republicans supporting a contempt recommendation and Democrats opposing it.
He looked at me with a mix of contempt and sympathy, the way people often look at beggars, and I would have been smart to heed his warning.
Rather than disparaging populism in US politics, he said, we could do well from a system where "the voters aren't treated with contempt by a kind of political aristocracy".
Ygritte treats him with a combination of contempt and flirtation as she points out the giant in their midst and talks about his upcoming meeting with Mance Rayder, a former Black Brother who is now their King Beyond the Wall.
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They are unlikely to offer aid to a regime with such a record of brutality and contempt for its people.
The Iranians, for their part, have reacted to the new president with a mixture of relief and contempt.
With the seething contempt of a coach behind at half time, the new Republican speaker of the Florida House of Representatives tore into the ruling.
"It's hard to avoid the conclusion that most of today's politicians regard the people with a mixture of fear and contempt: They can't stand the truth, and they'll punish any elected official who utters it, " he continued.
How he practiced as a psychiatrist with that level of contempt will be informative.
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Here, Headey takes a less restrained approach to evil, not by over-the-top cackling but with a semi-permanent sneer of contempt.
The question comes into stark focus at General Motors, once the paragon of American industrial management, now a lumbering giant treated with contempt on Wall Street.
And the PR touches applauded by the West cavorting with Mickey Mouse characters, sporting an attractive wife with a Christian Dior purse are more likely to be viewed with contempt by old-line apparatchiks.
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The likelihood for such action can only have grown as a result of the contempt with which President Obama has treated Israel, our most important regional ally.
The WTO verdict, revealed yesterday, simply affirms that the administration acted in accordance with U.S. WTO commitments and leaves to others, such as myself, to conclude that the duties were a highly political act perpetrated with utter contempt for the significant economic and diplomatic costs of those actions.
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The movement has connected with huge numbers of Italians who have developed a contempt for the governing elite.
Bearing this arrogance in mind is it any wonder that a compliant Wales has been treated with contempt?
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Normally a citation for civil contempt runs out with the grand jury, which in this case would be October 28th.
Note he did not stride into a conference of unionists and act like a London City slicker by treating them with contempt.
With Anglo-Saxon liberalism a term of abuse and contempt in the European Parliament, it was judged, there was little chance members of that body would stand by and allow a Briton to take the job of regulating the City.
Hillary Clinton is likely to be the next Democratic presidential nominee because she is the best-known active Democratic politician, because she has repeatedly triumphed over adversity, because she has made herself well-liked at a time that politicians are typically viewed with contempt.
The South Carolina rice farmer, who died in 1873, is said to have "despised affectation and looked with perfect contempt upon all snobbery, " according to a book about his life.
Bakaly was charged with contempt for denying under oath that he was a source for a New York Times article which ran on Jan. 31, 1999, in the midst of Clinton's impeachment trial.
The reporter was charged with contempt of court and deprived of his passport as a condition of bail.
John Toomey, from Unison, said the council had treated a public campaign to keep the homes open "with contempt".
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