Sentence examples for ignominious of from inspiring English sources

The Steinbrenner Commission got its start in the most ignominious of ways, Moran said.

He was forced to resign in the most ignominious of circumstances.

But most ignominious of all is the International University of Japan which reported it did not have a single female member on its business faculty in 2013.

When his 'B' test confirmed the findings, Landis was immediately sacked by Phonak despite the emphatic protestations of innocence from the rider, which turned out to be total cobblers, and he went on to be stripped of his Tour win and suspended in the most ignominious of circumstances.

Most of the signs place the word "Israel" in quotation marks, to underscore the country's illegitimacy, and every sign includes a fact box: the number of "Israelis" killed and wounded at the location, and the "Date of Ignominious Departure" of "Israeli" forces.

Much of the capital of Anbar province, the scene of an ignominious defeat of the Iraqi military by Islamic State in May and now largely won back after a gruelling offensive backed by 600 US-led coalition airstrikes, is in ruins.

"We find this to be repugnant to the Constitution," Judge Smith wrote, "and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history".

We find this to be repugnant to the Constitution, and a painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters of our national history".

He now joins an ignominious list of individuals stripped of their honours, including Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, and Anthony Blunt, who spied for Russia.

The era of the death squad, that ignominious feature of Latin American state terrorism of the 70s and the 80s, appears to have made a come back in Honduras.

The history of imperial Russia's unfortunate participation in World War I is epitomized in the ignominious outcome of the Battle of Tannenberg.