Sentence examples for degrading act from inspiring English sources

To have killed him then, unnecessarily, would have been a degrading act.

I liked the idea of having to suffer the ultimate degrading act to get enough money to pay my goddess.

With weak hands, I searched for a seam in the foil so I could remove the one-inch wax bullet to perform a degrading act on myself.

In 1953, another major revival of "Porgy and Bess"—starring the young Leontyne Price, fresh out of Juilliard prompted James Hicks, the reviewer for the Baltimore Afro-American, to declare Gershwin's labor of love "the most insulting, the most libelous, the most degrading act that could possibly be perpetrated against the Negro people".

In 1953, another major revival of "Porgy and Bess" — starring the young Leontyne Price, fresh out of Juilliard — prompted James Hicks, the reviewer for the Baltimore Afro-American, to declare Gershwin's labor of love "the most insulting, the most libelous, the most degrading act that could possibly be perpetrated against the Negro people".

The Kosovo Albanians have also been persistently subjected to insults, racial slurs, degrading acts based on ethnicity and religion, beatings, and other forms of physical mistreatment.

Corey LaTulippe's suit alleged that players were forced to participate in drinking games and in degrading acts in the fall.

"It's been a long road to get there," said Mr. Payne, a Newark Democrat, "but we are finally at the threshold of having a law that will stop heinous, humiliating, degrading acts by police officers".

The University of Vermont failed to properly investigate allegations that the men's hockey team hazed freshmen players by forcing them to drink alcohol and perform degrading acts, William Sorrell, the state's attorney general, said today.

Many former Florida A&M band members have alleged that the prestigious university band, the Marching 100, has a culture of musicians punching, slapping, paddling and forcing one another to perform degrading acts.

The attackers had been on a 12-hour drinking binge prior to the torture episode, during which they performed other degrading acts, such as cutting chunks from their victim's hair and holding her head under water for up to 10 seconds at a time on three occasions.