Sentence examples for humiliating act from inspiring English sources

Some female cuckoos change male partners and lay their eggs in other nests a humiliating act of betrayal (insofar as birds can actually feel humiliated).

In January 2011, in a humiliating act, President Obama was forced to sign the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), prohibiting the use of government funds to transfer detainees from Guantánamo to the US mainland.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina said the episode had "vestiges of a colonialism that we thought was completely overcome," describing it as a humiliating act that affected all of South America.

"It was not [just] a humiliating act.

This highly offensive and humiliating act is reminiscent of Jim Crow era battle royals," the letter reads, according to the New York article.

Swift's suit it "will serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts".

In June, six inmates sent a letter to the Federal District Court in Greensboro complaining that the prison staff had forced them to perform humiliating acts as entertainment.

The film shows the gangs using the internet to lure potential victims to meetings, before threatening violence to force confessions or humiliating acts.

He said the hazing took place Aug. 4 at an off-campus house party where new players, most of them incoming freshmen, were ordered to perform humiliating acts and to consume large amounts of alcohol.

A geek was a sideshow or carnival performer who distinguished himself by his willingness to commit the most loathsome and humiliating acts on-stage--commonly, biting the head off a live chicken.

And not just once: over the course of 10 years starting in the mid-1990s, 70 such cases of prank callers tricking staff into performing humiliating acts on their workmates were reported across 30 US states.