Sentence examples for by disgrace from inspiring English sources

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What's more, the squad had been 'tainted by disgrace in the ranks'.

Worse, it was stained by disgrace: in 1940, Moses Annenberg had been sentenced to three years in prison for tax evasion.

Gioberti's career was cut short, however, by disgrace and exile following a charge that he was involved in a republican political plot.

Du Chaillu's personal history, the unifying element amid all this, unfolds into a tale of "tainted" origins, shame, youthful pluck, success followed by disgrace followed by reclaimed success, incompetence (his second Gabonese expedition was a catalog of pratfalls and bad judgment) and continual self-­invention, culminating in his late career as an author of books on Norse mythology.

"He refused to accept vice in exchange for his religion, or to submit and be humiliated by the misguided and the receivers of the wrath [of God], who have been stricken by disgrace and misery.

Bill James notes, "When the owners discovered that the fans liked to see home runs, and when the foundations of the games were simultaneously imperiled by disgrace [in the Black Sox Scandal], then there was no turning back".

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Beside her old friend Salman on the shortlist are The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, Disgrace by JM Coetzee, The Siege of Krishnapur by JG Farrell and The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer.

What happened in Tabit is part of a campaign of rape in Sudan, aimed at dividing communities by disgracing their women and girls.

In a media statement, Joseph Bast, the institute president, lamented the loss of support from the General Motors Foundation, "particularly since it was prompted by false claims contained in a fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist".

The Heartland Institute said in a statement that GM's breach with it had been prompted by "false claims contained in a fake memo circulated by disgraced climate scientist Peter Gleick".

In "Neighbors," a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that's part of the Public Theater's Lab program, the young playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins tries to trace in bold strokes how the poisons spread by disgraced racial stereotypes continue to contaminate American culture and the American family.

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