Sentence examples for make abject from inspiring English sources

The authorities immediately shut down the paper, whose nervous management then bought ad space in the pages of its rivals to make abject apology.

In 1379, 17 nobles were massacred in the town hall, bringing down the vengeance of the duke, to whom the citizens made abject surrender in 1383.

General McChrystal went on national television to make an abject apology to the "great people of Afghanistan".

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.

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".

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.

The small amount of interest derived from their savings can make the difference between abject poverty and actually living.

Those who make it out of abject poverty rarely admit their ancestry — a factor that makes it harder for Roma to combat the discrimination they face, advocates say.

The latest in the attempt to make excuses for the abject failure of austerity is the claim that European countries didn't really practice austerity after all.