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.
While his counterparts at other big Irish banks during the boom years are now facing ignominy, bankruptcy or both, Burrows has landed a top job as chairman of British American Tobacco.
General Motors was the pride of 1920s America, but by 2009 faced the ignominy of bankruptcy.
For one script-tearing half, Ireland held a worthy lead and France faced the ignominy of elimination from their own tournament.
That much was clear in some of the small details on that Saturday night in Manchester when Stuart Lancaster faced the ignominy of a dead rubber against Uruguay, the weakest team in the World Cup.
As the £23.5m clause for Everton's Fellaini ended on 31 July, United faced the ignominy of having to pay more than this after Moyes and Ed Woodward, the executive vice-chairman, decided to allow it to expire in the hope the midfielder could be bought for less.
Bouncers, I knew, even back then, back before I'd faced the ignominy of not being allowed in a club on my birthday while all my friends waltzed in and I spent a night sat on the banks of the Thames in Kingston wondering where it all went so very very wrong, were blokes unlike myself.
One employee faces regular ignominy at work when the family members of prospective brides troop into the office to ferret out his personal details, Mr. Sondur said.
Facing such ignominy and hardship, why has Pujan chosen to stay in Mumbai, so far from his family, for more than 20 years?
Most women who are flogged actually choose to take the flogging over challenging the decision and facing the ignominy – something that Lubna Hussein defied last year.
Goodwin's reputation today is in tatters – as is his marriage – and he now faces the ignominy of being stripped of the knighthood he coveted.
