Other Americans were frankly contemptuous of the Dutch policy, which they regarded as softheaded.
An incredibly contemptuous attitude towards the chief executive he was supposed to be advising!
Campbell from the U.S. armed forces to end the examination of contemptuous conduct in civilian-military relations.
These letters (copies of which are attached) have prompted contemptuous responses from both Sens.
From Iran, he got a contemptuous rejection of his extraordinary offer to enrich uranium for it.
His mien is that of the contemptuous guerrilla fighter, mixed with that of a truculent teenager.
The question is: Will Mr. Hagel's cynical and contemptuous gambit be rewarded by the Senate?
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No doubt Obama's statement brought contemptuous smirks to faces of the illegitimate leaders in Teheran.
"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.
Complaints that his books featured no strong female characters met only contemptuous dismissal.
And they adopt a posture of contemptuous moral superiority over those who disagree.
They say the treatment they receive ranges from contemptuous indifference to outright persecution.
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.
The absence of any penalties for such behavior has only served to reinforce the Arabs' contemptuous disregard of American injunctions to act.
"Macaulay was notoriously dismissive, if not downright hostile and contemptuous, about native Indian, and particularly Hindu, customs and religious superstitions, " writes Masani.
Autocrats in Beijing are contemptuous of India for its messy, indecisive democracy.
For once, do the right thing and cease your contemptuous conduct toward your customer base that is inimical to every sound business practice.
"The TFG is a joke, " he said, wearily contemptuous of what he saw as the clan interests that masquerade as a national government.
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.
"The government finds the statement contemptuous, " he is quoted as saying.
It will legitimize this refusal, this contemptuous refusal, to even appear.
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Still, his highhandedness when it comes to the constitutional responsibility of the Senate to play a real role in treaty-making seems particularly contemptuous, and contemptible.
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