She also poured scorn on Tony Blair for turning the government into a personality cult.

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Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of Council at the BMA poured scorn on his comments.

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Almost everybody who has looked at the scheme has poured scorn on it, largely because of its complexity.

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But Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra poured scorn on the new warnings and denied his nation was a potential target for attack.

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The contractor, Able UK, has poured scorn on environmentalists' concerns - which are backed by green groups in the UK - as "scaremongering", and insisted the ships are safe to sail.

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Even as she begged his party to rejoin the coalition, she poured scorn on him, poking fun at his abysmal popularity ratings. (One poll gave him 5%, against 22.5% for her.) Yet Ms Tymoshenko is no Russian stooge.

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And Muslims the world over poured scorn on Sheikh Muhammad Munjad, a puritanical Palestinian preacher, when he suggested earlier this month, on a Saudi television show, that since mice are abhorrent to God, Mickey Mouse deserved to die.

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During a debate on the government's energy and climate change policy on 2 November 2010, Lord Lawson, a prominent climate change sceptic, poured scorn on the idea that there would be a binding world agreement on cutting carbon emissions.

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Despite the scorn poured on her by Socialist old-timers, she has so far resisted efforts to dismiss her potential candidacy as a media illusion.

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