He is increasingly scornful of the very currency he is supposed to be defending.

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Mr Blair is also scornful of the argument that phasing out Trident might persuade Iran to halt its nuclear programme.

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The way he handled it made her think he was scornful of its binding or paper stock, but then he read the dust flap, shuddered.

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When the economy began to recover from the crisis of the late 1990s, Russians, scornful of their own car industry's Soviet-era products, began buying ever more used imported cars.

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Key players were scornful of people with formal education.

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Scornful of the old ways of doing business, drunk on their own rhetoric, backers of outfits such as Zethus persuaded many that the pace of change in business had gone from evolutionary to revolutionary.

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Charles Koch became openly scornful of conventional politics.

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The only time I recall being scornful of shoddy goods was when a huge brick smokestack fell on and obviously killed the hero of a serial, "Don Winslow of the Navy, " and the following week's installment began with Commander Don emerging from a mountain of rubble.

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And they are scornful (and perhaps jealous) that he spends much of his time in a vast palazzo near Siena that he bought 30 years ago for a modest outlay.

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If you thought the Board of the London Stock Exchange was a little scornful when it jilted Macquarie Bank for the first time back in December--" a derisory proposal which fundamentally undervalues the company and lacks any strategic or commercial credibility"--its latest blackball is downright disdainful.

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