Sentence examples for public curse from inspiring English sources

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Lawmakers, increasingly mired in corruption scandals that alienate the public, curse one another in Parliament.

At the time of Cleisthenes' birth the family was still affected by a public curse incurred by his great-grandfather, also named Megacles.

In some Inuit villages, said Edie Turner, a professor of anthropology at the University of Virginia, tribe members will shout disapproval at someone who is stealing or cheating, sometimes casting a public curse on the person that can be removed only in a ceremony conducted by tribal elders.

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The public curses him, and even the Dickensian TV lawyer Nancy Grace — of the curling lip and ferocious eye — gets on his case.

An international affairs professor at St . PetersburgState University and a City Council member since 1990, Mr. Yagya said he would soon file language-purity legislation to outlaw both public cursing and untranslated foreign words in advertising.

The sports version of the Zapruder film eventually led to the school's zero-tolerance policy for Knight and this quotation from the General in defense of a subsequent act that led to his dismissal: "I would have to be an absolute moron -- an absolute moron -- with the things that have been laid on me, to grab a kid in public or curse a kid in public".

But outraged Fortuyn supporters booed and stormed out of the public gallery, cursing the judges.

The list of Afghan complaints against the Americans ran the gamut from the killing of civilians to urinating in public and cursing.

That includes "urinating in public, their cursing at, insulting and being rude and vulgar to ANSF members, and unnecessarily shooting animals".

You say public drinking, cursing and spitting would also be banned, and that fines of 300 to 500 rubles, about $10 to $17, would be imposed.

"When you've got people like Bloomberg cursing in public, and Chris Christie cursing in public, we have changed as a culture," Ms. van Ogtrop said.

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