Word: contemptable
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Perhaps, but it wasn't just the unthinkable possibility of appearing weak on national security next to Hillary Clinton and Edward Kennedy that drove Hill Republicans to take on the President. It was a feeling that he was treating them with contempt. Even as McClellan spoke about appeasement, there was grumbling that the White House still hadn't contacted Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert directly to talk matters through, and a House leadership aide noted that "with the veto threat and then the accusation that members were being xenophobic, [the President] alienated them even more...
...Most insurgent groups in Iraq are loath to target women because they know it would gain them no public sympathy. If anything, ordinary Iraqis (even those who sympathize with the insurgency) regard such kidnappers with contempt. That's one of the reasons why groups that have kidnapped women have tended to adopt new and obscure names - they don't want their real names tainted by association...
...many as 300,000 Chinese were killed; in Kyoto. In his diary, published in 1987 as My Nanking Platoon, Azuma graphically described rapes and beheadings. "We were taught that we were a superior race," he told CNN in 1998. "But the Chinese were not. So we held nothing but contempt for them...
...Justice Department opened an investigation into who leaked the existence of the NSA program to the Times, raising the prospect of Risen's being compelled to reveal the identities of the "nearly dozen" current and former officials who spoke to him about the program or face jail time for contempt of court...
...fourth as long the two previous modern strikes. Workers are still facing fines of $1,200 each-two days' pay for each for each of the three strike days. The union has been ordered to pay a separate $3 million fine. Toussaint is due in court to answer contempt charges, and could face jail time. And despite the thaw at the negotiating table, the governor and mayor have both said all penalties and fines should to be enforced...