Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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McCain, Sen. John • continued disdain for "earmarks...
...Khodorkovsky, then Russia's richest man, was arrested in 2003 at a time when he had been funding Kremlin-opposition groups, and had been vocal about his disdain for Putin. The charges for tax evasion and fraud on which he was convicted may have applied to many of Russia's leading businessmen at the time, say critics. "The only difference between [Khodorkovsky] and any other large-scale business at the time was his anti-Kremlin stance," says Tatiana Lokshina, deputy director of the Moscow office of Human Rights Watch. "He frequently denounced Putin." Lokshina says that a further conviction...
...with his back against the wall, alternately mouthing the words as Obama spoke them, applauding and checking his BlackBerry for reactions from the ether. At the other end of the chamber sat a diminished Republican caucus, self-consciously rising and falling like pistons to show their alternate approval and disdain for the President's policy prescriptions...
...moderates are united in their disdain for what they consider extraneous spending in the massive economic package, which most Republicans are unwilling to support. Nelson and his Republican partner, Maine Senator Susan Collins, compiled a list all of the programs in which the Congressional Budget Offices estimated that less than 10% of funds would be spent in the first 18 months. From that list they selected about $100 billion in programs, mostly in education, state aid and science that, while perhaps worthy pursuits, they don't believe belong in the stimulus bill. At the same time, the coalition has also...
...Sure, technically he won't be in attendance, and the betting is he could be ousted within a week. Blagojevich has made no secret of his disdain for the proceedings, calling the trial (which is separate from the ongoing federal criminal probe) the equivalent of a lynching and his inability to call witnesses a "trampling of the Constitution." But his outrageous media appearances and unpredictable moves have kept Blagojevich the unrivaled star of his own reality show, making the jury of his peers in state government look feckless by comparison. (See a gallery of politicians caught in scandals...