Sentence examples for abject year from inspiring English sources

In an abject year for journalism, Katherine Boo's portrait of a Mumbai slum, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Portobello), the result of three years' honest witness among the disadvantaged, sets a gold standard for exactly what a gifted reporter may still do alone.

He photographed the neighborhood intensively during its abject years in the 1970's and 80's, when it was being savagely kicked around by economics and politics.

Alas, when it comes to their fishermen, they have shown abject cowardice for years.

And as New York has demonstrated all too glaringly in recent years, abject obedience to the conventional idea of context may violate the expanded context of contemporary urban life.

As for Mr. Levin, while his abject apology was years after the fact, experts said it was nonetheless stunning in an environment that generally frowns upon apologies as a sign of weakness.

"It's our opinion that Goliat will remain a symbol of abject failure for years to come," Gulowsen added, "From a purely economical standpoint the project is already a disaster".

After five years of property bust, and a year of abject downturn, the Spanish economy is about to be hit by an almighty shock: austerity.

Durability as defined by Ryd et al. (1995) (MTPM of > 0.2 mm in 2 years for prediction of loosening at 10 years) or abject failure could not be examined in the paper by van der Linde et al. (2008) paper, as the analysis performed used the above criterion for prediction of loosening at 10 years.

After The Sun's  ruthless destruction of Neil Kinnock, we saw 20 years of abject fawning by Downing Street and the political class in general towards the tabloids and their proprietors.

"If I were against creating millionaires, I have been an abject failure in my years as president".

Prohibition of some drugs has been 40 years of abject failure that has destroyed many UK lives.