1.   Against the withering scorn of the editorial writers, the attorney general seems to be ready to maintain her independence.

2.   Budiansky, for example, dismisses with withering scorn the use of mirrors by apes as evidence for self-awareness, but many of his criticisms have been answered already.

3.   Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other Israeli officials have singled out Netzarim for withering scorn.

4.   Stephen Douglas now took up the banner of Young America, which made Lincoln treat the term with withering scorn.

5.   Their sense of self-worth in the face of withering scorn is humbling.

6.   But Albright reserved withering scorn for the practice, common in China but also elsewhere in Asia, of favouring a male child over a female.