Sentence examples for odious of from inspiring English sources

The most odious of them all are special prosecutor Ken Kratz and former Manitowoc County sheriff Kenneth Peterson.

Some of the most odious of human behaviors, including torture, public stonings and lynchings, may all be examples of the meting out of altruistic punishment run amok.

But Mullah Omar is not a war criminal nor even the most odious of Afghan warlords, and we should let him fade into obscurity.

For example, the notorious Berkut regiment – the riot police who killed most of the dead protesters – was disbanded and the most odious of the former Yanukovych officials have been sacked.

Writing late in his life to his daughter, he identified "procrastination," which he linked with unpardonable guilt, as "that most odious of vices": the procrastinator is doomed, since "in midst of too-soonness he shall suffer the killing anxieties of too-lateness".

With the Sino-Soviet split, South Africa presented the least odious of allies to the PRC.

Re "To Curb Traffic on the Internet, Access Providers Consider Charging by the Gigabyte" (news article, June 15): To the list of odious consequences of "Internet metering," one more concern should be added: the threat to artistic expression.

Says Melvin Caswell, director of publishing systems for the 31-newspaper Knight Ridder chain, "There is a kind of backlash here because of the odious attitude of our friends at Quark.

Unfortunately, it also enjoys the distinction of being one of the most odious legacies of a lame duck administration in American history.

After the May protests, mainstream newspapers like the Daily Star warned against the "degradation of ideals and values that Islam stands for," and the "odious misrepresentation of religion and denigration of position of women in our society".

At Stalin's behest, the odious head of the Union of Composers, Tikhon Khrennikov, denounced Prokofiev's works as "formalist", evil and bourgeois.