Sentence examples for considered abject from inspiring English sources

But many of Rachel and Zenyatta's legendary predecessors, including the Kentucky Derby winners Genuine Risk and Winning Colors, were considered abject failures in the breeding shed.

He still lives in circumstances most Americans would consider abject.

Out in the park, you can nutmeg your kid, dump them on their arse on the grass, smash home a hat-trick, pull your shirt over your head and run around screaming without being considered an abject monster.

What I consider the abject neglect of a lot of the teenagers I've come across.

"You are owed a favor from the Iraqis," said Ibrahim Shouqyk, a clean and remarkably well-dressed man, considering the abject poverty here.

The odds of successful "nation-building" in that country were not good, he assured me, when you consider past "abject failures" in Haiti and elsewhere.

A public protest followed the pro-legalization announcement, wherein masked sex workers took to the streets and demanded an end to sexual violence and police harassment a bold move considering the abject terror most feel about revealing their identities or messing with the authorities.

(In that respect, Rose considered herself an abject failure. "My life has been arid and sterile," she wrote, "because I have been a human being instead of a woman").

The striking thing about Clinton's statement is that both of the operations he cited involved the long-distance use of cruise missiles and no risk to American lives, and both are now widely considered to be abject failures.

At a conference for investors sponsored by Morgan Stanley late last year, the chairman and chief executive of a large European bottler gave a presentation that many in the audience considered the most abject that they had heard in years from anyone in the relentlessly optimistic Coke system.

The play asks the very question that Victor Davis Hanson considers "immoral": whether abject defeat can yet somehow be a victory.