Sentence examples for avoid disgrace from inspiring English sources

Another practice is bride abduction — men claim a wife by kidnapping and raping her; after the rape she must marry the rapist to avoid disgrace and preserve her family's honor.

This was a peculiar confession: Pepys (pronounced peeps) would burn a pornographic volume to avoid disgrace, but document its purchase in a diary that survived his every purge of his private papers.

Outside the family, filial piety requires "conducting oneself so as to bring honor and avoid disgrace to the family name" (Chow and Chu 2007, p. 93).

Many of the neonatal deaths occurring are due to poor competence and mishandling of health staff and instead of requesting more training and resources the problem is hidden in order to avoid disgrace.

And by their own standards they're avoiding disgrace.

There is also a long, romantic history of honorable suicide in Japan, from the Samurai avoiding disgrace to the kamikaze pilots of World War II.

It is bizarre and only makes sense if you conclude someone wanted to alert the authorities that fraud was going on, but did not want to do so publicly, perhaps to avoid bringing disgrace to the museum.

Even with at least 35 minutes remaining, it was not difficult to suspect that it would be enough to take County into the final at the expense of a Celtic side lacking the wit, the spirit and the talent to avoid the disgrace.

It is thought likely that the king had ordered him to be killed to avoid the disgrace of executing a prince of the blood.

Due to the slowness of communication in those primitive days, we had the opportunity to, for example, calm down, reflect on our situation, consider the consequences, change our minds, prevent impulsive behavior, and avoid embarrassment, disgrace, or criminal charges.

Due to the slowness of communication in those primitive days, we had the opportunity to, for example, calm down, reflect on our situation, consider the consequences, change our minds, prevent impulsive behavior and moral digressions, and avoid embarrassment, disgrace, or criminal charges.