His first, unforgivable mistake was to dismiss haughtily Völler's and Holzhäuser's renewed attempts to secure a more conciliatory end to his international career as "a private initiative" during the winter break when it was anything but.
Cameron calls him unacceptable and illegitimate, haughtily scorning Juncker's drive to become the next head of the EU executive in Brussels.
Haughtily berating America for its financial problems, China would nevertheless like to regain the kudos it won in the wake of the Asian financial crisis by appearing to play a constructive role in stemming the fallout.The sale also raises questions about future relations between Taiwan and China, which have blossomed under President Ma.
There, say the liberals, the Brothers have little concept of democracy or pluralism, and are haughtily hostile to Copts Egyptt's main Christian sect, numbering 8-10%) and other minorities.
Yesterday Mr Juncker said haughtily that to punish rule-breakers would have been "easy"; better, he added, to "let them talk, and to listen".Still, there is no denying Europe's broader Germanic turn towards austerity.
While other cricketers of his generation sniffed haughtily at the fast-paced Twenty20 format that was sweeping the world, he embraced it.Before he became the voice of cricket, Mr Benaud was a fine and innovative player; the first to score 2,000 runs while also taking 200 wickets.
That may tempt the big private-equity groups into the middle market, which they haughtily ignored when mega-deals were easy.
An earlier pass by Fiat at BMW was haughtily rejected by the Bavarian company.
Some of the villagers don traditional outfits while the well-heeled tourists haughtily discuss the likelihood of inbreeding and how Danish subsidies have helped keep Niaqornat alive.
The bomb-makers had vanished from the sites several days before the army showed up.In turn, the armed forces have haughtily declared they will no longer take cash from the United States (on whom they have long depended for handouts).
Among the casualties were four village officials.China once haughtily regarded crimes involving guns as a manifestation of American decadence that hardly affected its own, better regulated, society.
