Word: contemptable
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...military is openly displaying contempt for the trials, closing ranks and acting as if they've been betrayed. Their uniformed, bemedaled presence in the courtroom can be read as an attempt to remind the judiciary where the real power lies. At the opening hearing for five men accused of allowing a massacre at a church in Suai, the five army Chiefs of Staff attended with their wives, a dramatic reminder that those supporting the defendants are more powerful than those who will decide their fate. On Thursday morning, the trial of Yudyat Sudryato, a commander of the military's Kopassus...
...down endless audits and inspections on his rivals, and reputedly had the power even to make or break governments. In 1985, leaders of opposition political parties signed a letter urging a thorough legislative probe into Reliance over "massive and ingenious schemes and methods adopted by the company in gross contempt of public policies and statutory laws...
...junior high yearbook I had a quote from a Spanish poet my sister had turned me on to, Juan Ram?n Jim?nez. It went like this: "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." I chose it both because it expressed my contempt for my structured surroundings ? la the classroom and because, not being some dopey quote from a rock group, I thought it marked me as literary. I was a member of the Chess Club and Chem Club and burned everything I tried to make in Mrs. Delminico's home ec class. My favorite teacher...
...judge you (and surely find you wanting) in matters of employment, education, income, affiliations, intellectual interests, spouse(s), ethnicity, favored comestibles, politics, celebrity, dogs and not least progeny. Of course, a snob is Janus-faced. Note the contortions necessary to look up to the paragons who are above contempt while simultaneously looking down on the dopes beneath consideration...By a snob, of snobs, and for snobs; a nice example of the art of the essay...
...more seriously than the Israelis are, and the two effects tend to reinforce each other: The Israelis are in the West Bank because they don't believe the PA can or will enforce security; the patent impotence of those security forces in the face of the Israelis deepens Palestinian contempt for Arafat's gendarmes and emboldens the militants to simply ignore the efforts by the PA leadership to halt attacks inside Israel. More terror attacks push Israelis to demand further action; the hatred inspired by the collective punishment endured by the Palestinian population suggests the PA won't get much...