Sentence examples for infamous act from inspiring English sources

The most infamous act is probably the gleefully ersatz Gaijin à Go-Go, a faux-Japanese pop band that has -- inevitably -- earned a following in Japan.

Until yesterday, Grimsley's most infamous act was slithering through a ceiling to retrieve his Cleveland Indians teammate Albert Belle's corked bat from the umpires' room at Chicago's Comiskey Park in 1994.

The most infamous act of cheating in the whole American canon – the throwing of the 1919 World Series by the Chicago White Sox, as part of a betting scam – was reframed as a redemptive tale.

IN ONE of the more dramatic scenes in modern diplomacy, a resolution describing Zionism as a form of racism, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1975, was excoriated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America's UN ambassador, as an "infamous act" and a "terrible lie".

Agence France-Presse reports that the Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed's monumental sculpture generated an angry backlash on social networks from religious conservatives who complained that glorifying the infamous act of violence set a bad example for the youth of the emirate and bordered on idolatry.

Perhaps the most unfortunate aspect of what was about to unfold – though Battiston and his dental surgeon will doubtless disagree – is that an infamous act of brutal cynicism to this day casts a long, dark shadow across a match which really should be principally remembered as one of the greatest, most dramatic and entertaining World Cup encounters of all time.

Yet, one of his most infamous acts as executive of the nation's second-largest state smacks of every worst habit of the Obama administration.

Some of the more infamous acts of the last parliament include passing a motion to ban African languages in official premises; a rural peasant would now have to bring an interpreter to a government office to have his needsattended to.

The Klan, of course, has had a hand in some of the nation's most infamous acts of racial terror and murder.

In spirit, the attack on the Pashtun poet's shrine in Pakistan seems to echo one of the Afghan Taliban's most infamous acts of cultural cleansing: the destruction of the Great Buddhas of Bamiyan in 2001.

On January 31 , 1933 Hitler became chancellor and, based on the infamous Enabling Act, adopted by a Reichstag majority, he took absolute power that very year.