Sentence examples for because of the indignities from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rhee, an 82-year-old retired dentist, is one of a small group of Koreans who still write traditional Japanese poetry — a pursuit that many people of his generation consider just short of sacrilegious because of the indignities inflicted on their country during Japan's colonial rule.

Mr Timberg says he escaped the worst of the indignities heaped on veterans because of his conspicuous injuries.The mental scars of Vietnam have not wholly healed, he reckons, but America has largely moved on.

Ann Hui's film is a searing account of the indignities of old age, and a moving paean to the companionship that can render those indignities bearable.

It paints a vivid picture of the indignity of detention through distressing and detailed case studies.

Although she had complained of the indignity of being homeless, she didn't authorize the hospital to share her records with a free transitional-housing service, because when she reviewed the paperwork she saw her diagnosis.

It was a life that had become unbearable because of the constant pain, indignities and limits imposed upon her by multiple sclerosis, a condition she had lived with for more than 25 years.

But that would seem an odd message from a justice whose opinion barely six weeks earlier had declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, in part because of the "injury and indignity" the federal law imposed on same-sex couples whose marriages their state chose to recognize.

Instead of raging against the indignities of the Vice-Presidency, Biden luxuriates in the job.

And yet, cars of this ilk float above the indignities of value comparisons.

Complaining of canceled bank accounts and other indignities because of "the situation surrounding my existence," Ms. Boël said in a statement, "I don't believe that my legal action will end all discrimination against me or my family, or mend my personal relationship with my father, but with DNA proof there will be undeniable certainty about my identity".

She suffers the indignities of endless power outages and shutdowns of the city's water supply.