Iraq's protests that its sovereignty is violated by efforts to feed and clothe its victims warrant contemptuous rejection.

Mr. Sadr immediately responded with a contemptuous rejection of demands for the militiamen to surrender and a vow to fight to the death.

Only such a belief can explain its contemptuous rejection of U.S. concern about the killing of 21 Palestinians in Jerusalem.

And the leading delegitimizer is Netanyahu, whose contemptuous rejection of peace is turning Israel into an international pariah.

But then there was Mr. Bush's almost contemptuous rejection of the Kyoto accord on global warming.

She wished she could share this sudden certainty with Vaniya, but the older woman had not looked at her since that first angry, contemptuous rejection.

Seeing that he was recognised, he put out his hand in an awkward and embarrassed manner, which was not mended by its contemptuous rejection.

(For contrast, see Thecla's contemptuous rejection of it.)

They came to die in a kind of ultimate spasm of arrogance, a complete, contemptuous rejection of the world.

P.N.A.C.'s analysts criticize the "almost contemptuous rejection" with which the administration has backed out of international agreements.