Sentence examples for faced disgrace from inspiring English sources

Despite this success, Mr. Stoltenberg faced disgrace in the Defense Ministry after taking responsibility for two scandals involving arms exports.

General Zia-ul-Haq, who faced disgrace domestically and internationally after his execution of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, abruptly became a prestigious ally in Washington and London.

This month, it is London's turn to face disgrace.

Land on the jackal and you face disgrace: such creatures "follow armies, in hopes of being furnished with a banquet by disease or battle".

His bacon was saved in 1952 when, facing disgrace over the exposure of a slush fund, his grotesquely sentimental TV Checkers speech put him back on the presidential ticket as Eisenhower's running mate.

This is a gleaming movie about a man with his back to the wall, facing disgrace on several fronts and the possibility of exchanging his Armani suit for prison garb.

Last night he was facing disgrace The Times: Cricket bosses get what they deserve IN THE PRIVACY OF YOUR OWN INTERNET The Telegraph runs an interesting technology story today, somewhat hidden away in the downpages, about Facebook changing its rules on people's rights to delete information about themselves from the website.

Because of the Japanese military's policy to never surrender, Japanese soldiers never received any training about how to act as POWs: upon returning to Japanese ranks, many would face disgrace, punishment, and starvation.

Pakistan's former military leader Pervez Musharraf was last night facing ignominy and disgrace having fled from an Islamabad court that had ordered his arrest.

Faced with disgrace, Balthazar drove his car into a lake.

And there is the irony of Helen espousing a moral strategy she doesn't seem to realize she learned from her detested ex, who believed he should face his disgrace with honesty.