Sentence examples for humiliating terms from inspiring English sources

They were irrationally blamed for the defeat in World War I, and the humiliating terms of the armistice.

It's hard not to feel that you are about to sign a document imposing humiliating terms of surrender.

He helped drive two senators, Mr. Corker and Mr. Flake, into retirement, castigating them in humiliating terms online and driving up their unpopularity with Republicans.

It was these words and the humiliating terms of the armistice that drew Hitler to this spot to demand the French surrender in 1940.

In an effort to placate the hard-left faction of his Syriza party, Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, said on Saturday that the government was on a final stretch towards a deal but would not accept "humiliating terms".

Llywelyn's aggression against neighbouring territories incurred resistance, which King John turned to his advantage in a campaign in 1211 whereby the prince of Gwynedd was subjected to humiliating terms.

Under the guidance of Mrs. Saxon, the school's well-meaning home ec instructor, we girls learned to make brownies from scratch and practiced walking slowly with a book on our heads in preparation for the humiliating term-end fashion show in which we had to model the misshapen garments we had created using paper patterns purchased at the local Woolworth's.

However, a coalition of foreign troops soon captured the capital, and Cixi was forced to flee the city and accept humiliating peace terms.

When China was defeated by Japan in 1895, Kang mobilized hundreds of provincial graduates then in Beijing to protest against the humiliating peace terms and to petition for far-reaching reforms to strengthen the empire.

The Kremlin last night dictated humiliating peace terms to Georgia as the price for halting the Russian invasion of the small Black Sea country and its four-day rout of Georgian forces.

In 1189 Richard and Philip II of France took advantage of Henry's failing health and forced him to accept humiliating peace terms, including naming Richard as his sole heir.