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To opprobrium
noun
Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy.
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It was designed to win political advantage by holding intelligence officers — whose offense was to follow faithfully their lawful orders — up to opprobrium and scorn.
George Galloway is no stranger to opprobrium, but his remarks in support of Julian Assange represent a new low even for him.
Therefore, virility, power over women, and other heteronormative ideas/practices become important to hip-hop culture to affirm fractured identities, and all other sexualities become subject to opprobrium and subject of teasing.
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It appears to be insensitive to international opprobrium and to the appearance of illegitimacy.
But I would say: are you going to hold people up to public opprobrium because a house they could have sold in January instead they sell in May, because there was a profit to be made on that house because the selling price was higher than the purchase price?
But I would say 'Are you going to hold people up to public opprobrium because a house they could have sold in January instead they sell in May because there was a profit to be made on that house because the selling price was higher than the purchase price?'.
The House Republicans, having adopted their voluntary ban on earmarks earlier this year in response to growing opprobrium from their base, now plan to use their new majority to impose the ban on Democrats too.In the Senate, where the Democrats retain a majority, Republican leaders had initially resisted calls for a moratorium.
But, as Brooks, writing at the dawn of supply side, notes, the men most responsible for leading this movement deliberately chose not to attach moral opprobrium to their arguments.
Depending on who you are listening to, it is often stretched to mean pretty well anything from outright bans to disfavour, opprobrium and even neglect.In this section The dark beyond A very contemporary Russian Ballet's superstar Hold that tune ReprintsLeonard Bernstein was unofficially blacklisted in America's McCarthy era.
North Korea reacts furiously to the opprobrium and raises the stakes, threatening to carry out a nuclear test.
The United States does not want to abandon Israel, which has been subjected to international opprobrium since the raid.
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