Word: contemptable
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...bears a much greater responsibility, if only because it went to considerable lengths to urge the rebels to rise up against Saddam. Washington could meet that responsibility by distributing aid directly to Kurdish refugees in northern Iraq and by treating any objections from Saddam with the same contempt voiced by the French. It could send similar aid to refugees reaching Iran. Such cooperation in concert with a country that has been hostile to the U.S. for more than a decade might even help to draw % Ayatullah Khomeini's more moderate successors back into the world community...
...separate case involving a similar principle, a federal judge held the city of Miami in contempt of court last week for destroying bedrolls, clothes and medicine belonging to homeless people living under a highway overpass. The city was ordered to pay $2,500 to a homeless shelter...
...WILL CHARGE, as many New York lawyers did when that state's bar recently recommended that every attorney perform 20 hours of pro bono work each year, that requiring citizens to do work not of their choosing is simply a form of slavery. That argument, however, is barely above contempt. First, it ignores the reality that our society does require contributions of our time to fulfill civil duties--we are, for example, obligated to serve on juries when called...
...called Munich generation, which witnessed the West's failure in 1938 to nip Hitler's deadly ambitions in the bud, Mitterrand stood firmly against appeasement. Elysee Palace aides noticed a deep anger taking hold of him as he watched Saddam's cynical maneuvering, his wanton destruction and his contempt for human life...
...President Bush promptly called it a "cruel hoax," and British Prime Minister John Major redundantly labeled it a "bogus sham." But Iraq for once was pointedly not boasting about making American and other allied soldiers drown in their own blood, not spurning all talk of a cease- fire with contempt, not claiming that Kuwait is and always will be the country's 19th province...