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.
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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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.
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.
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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What was remarkable however, was the level of contempt combined with profound lack of judgment in allowing a virtually unknown reporter with whom they had no sustained relationship to such unfettered access.
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Brown's attorney said the prosecutor's filing was so fraudulent that he would ask the judge to punish the deputy district attorneys involved and call for a contempt of court hearing for filing false documents with the court.
During Mr. Ryan's junior year as an undergraduate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he took a class with a professor named Rich Hart, an outspoken and engaging libertarian with a bust of Elvis Presley in his office and an arresting contempt for the direction his university has taken over the past 20 years.
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Many feel lessons had to be learnt from Vietnam, where some think the veterans were treated with contempt because they had the bad luck to fight in a war judged a mistake and a failure.
Moroun and his top aide, Dan Stamper, were jailed for two days in January after a judge found them in contempt for failing to comply with court-ordered completion of ramps linking the existing bridge to expressways.
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"On the eve of a contempt hearing, the FDA has once again come up with an excuse to treat the approval of contraceptives differently from any other drug, " said Nancy Northup, the group's chief executive.
The decree transformed a farce into yet another example of Mr Berlusconi's contempt for the rule of law, of a piece with a new draft law to allow ministers to delay criminal trials against them.
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Judge Raymond Voet had posted a policy stating electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions would result in the owner being cited with contempt.
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