Sentence examples for grave humiliation from inspiring English sources
It was a grave humiliation for a family that had led all New York for two decades.
Third, any clampdown sufficiently draconian to reassure us would amount to a United Nations occupation, which would be a grave humiliation to Saddam.
Defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as "particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings," these offenses are more than just isolated or sporadic events.
But in that ordeal last June, Mr. Rosenthal's gravest humiliation came from something as simple as having to go to the bathroom.
The stiff punishment was handed down by a Moscow judge, Marina Syrova, who described the women as posing a danger to society and said they had committed "grave crimes" including "the insult and humiliation of the Christian faith and inciting religious hatred".
Historically, the dispossessed peasantry built land banks to house each other, food banks to feed each other and burial societies so that their humanity was not lost in the humiliation of a pauper's grave.
But the accused would have to undergo the repeated humiliation of traveling to The Hague to answer summonses, appearing in the dock, hearing grave charges and enduring the televised broadcasts of the proceedings.
The grave possibility that Tesco might not sell quite so many BBQ chipolatas is presented as the greatest national humiliation since Khartoum.
This is the special humiliation of the slow death — the days spent on what Sidney Hook (as Hitchens reminds us) called a "mattress grave".
