Sentence examples for humiliating decision from inspiring English sources

No sooner had he dealt with the fallout from Mr Chirac's humiliating decision last month to call home the Clemenceau, a decommissioned, asbestos-laden aircraft-carrier that had been sent to India for scrap, than panic about bird flu broke out in France.

Power may, indeed, be slipping away from him.In a humiliating decision on August 23rd, Mr Yeltsin felt obliged to reappoint as prime minister the man he had brutally sacked just five months before, probably on suspicion that Mr Chernomyrdin had his eye on the presidency.

But thereafter the focus will shift from the parliament to the courts: there is a humiliating decision for the TV magnate to take as to whether he should do community service or accept house arrest; then the appeal in the 'Bunga Bunga trial' and another for leaking confidential judicial evidence; then possible indictment for bribery.

The president's approval ratings sank to an all-time low of 12percentt in January as the public blamed him for hiked gas prices, economic stagnation, and the humiliating decision to invite Donald Trump to Mexico ahead of last year's U.S. election.

Iain Gray, the Scottish Labour leader, said it was a "humiliating" decision and the latest in a series of broken manifesto promises from the SNP.

The UK's military involvement in Iraq ended with the "humiliating" decision to strike deals with enemy militias because British forces were seriously ill-equipped and there was "wholly inadequate" planning and preparation for life after Saddam Hussein, the Chilcot report finds.

Now deteriorating public finances have forced a humiliating reversal of the decision.

Manchester City are at the centre of a humiliating row over the decision to deny Frank Lampard the chance to leave for the United States this month, with the player clearly unhappy with damage to his reputation and the Premier League feeling the club have been economical with the truth over their plans for him.

Alan Duncan, the Conservative business spokesman, said that the decision was "a humiliating climbdown" for the government.

Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, said: "This decision is a humiliating admission that the Ministry of Justice is not able to get value for money and good service from the private sector.

A viral campaign that spiralled through social networking site Facebook in August last year forced HSBC into a humiliating U-turn over its decision to scrap interest-free overdrafts for university graduates.