The authorities immediately shut down the paper, whose nervous management then bought ad space in the pages of its rivals to make abject apology.
They were given agency Thursday night, not made into abject Barack-o-maniacs.
Lord Justice Moses and Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the government had made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".
At an earlier hearing in the High Court, Lord Justice Moses and Mr Justice Sullivan said the SFO and the Government made an "abject surrender" to "blatant threats".
General McChrystal went on national television to make an abject apology to the "great people of Afghanistan".
If he wasn't going to provide Deflategate's dramatic final act, then he could at least provide a little wish fulfillment, by making himself abject, or else ridiculous.
His convictions on this point logically forced him to accept the Marian Counter-Reformation as valid, and this acceptance, in turn, in his weak and uncertain state, not unaffected by the delay of death and the faint hope of mercy, finally induced him to make an abject recantation (the sixth) of his whole religious development.
"Even if his anti-Semitism made him an abject, intolerable person.
Philip Roth, who once declared "Céline is my Proust!", summed up the ambivalence still felt towards the author, whom he still felt deserved recognition for his writing, when he said: "Even if his antisemitism made him an abject, intolerable person – to read him, I have to suspend my Jewish conscience, but I do it because antisemitism isn't at the heart of his books".
The picture you have painted is one of abject squalor made worse by a generally lazy approach to hygiene.
