Sentence examples for humiliating state from inspiring English sources

It was whether there was any way out of it short of a humiliating state takeover of the county's finances.

"Seeing Saddam in a disheveled, disoriented state -- in a potentially or seemingly humiliating state -- was a startling image, even to people as jaded as in the media," Mr. Slavin said.

It was a humiliating demonstration of the state of Britain's railways.

Mr Mugabe attended along with Mr Tsvangirai, but only in his capacity as leader of ZANU-PF, not as Zimbabwe's head of state: a humiliating come-down.

The AfD remains strongest in the formerly Communist east and has dealt the Christian Democrats humiliating election defeats in state elections there.

Late last year, when Californians voted for a multibillion-dollar tax hike, people declared that Governor Jerry Brown had nearly singlehandedly repaired the state's humiliating financial troubles.

By Vauhini Vara August 16, 2013 Late last year, when Californians voted for a multibillion-dollar tax hike, people declared that Governor Jerry Brown had nearly singlehandedly repaired the state's humiliating financial troubles.

But monitoring by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund is so humiliating that the target states, Spain and Italy, are desperate to avoid requesting assistance.

That humiliating loss in his home state effectively ended his candidacy.

As vote tallies piled up here today in a series of important state elections, the humiliating defeat of the Hindu nationalists and the stunning resurrection of India's once-dominant political force, the Congress Party, became ever more starkly apparent.

He started to mock Kim, calling him Rocket Man, even during a formal address at the United Nations, in front of scores of heads of state — an especially humiliating setting for Kim.