Sentence examples for rather a disgrace from inspiring English sources
JW World Cups 1998, 2002, 2006 Appearances 12 Goals 5 A protagonist of two finals, finishing one a national hero and the other in rather a disgrace, one of the best European players of all time, Zidane's first World Cup was a personal triumph in which he scored two goals against Brazil in the final, prompting the giant projection of his image on the Arc de Triomphe.
It's as if he looks at Northern Ireland's segregated school system, and thinks it is an inspiration, rather than a disgrace.
Nemtsov and Martynyuk call it "a disgrace rather than a triumph".
(It's out of print, which is a disgrace, and rather hard to obtain but try an inter-library loan).
It is a disgrace that rather than working to extend this tutorial system – that many of the members of the cabinet were privileged to enjoy when they were at university (mostly studying for humanities degrees, incidentally) – recent governments have chosen further to entrench existing inequalities within the university system.
Our schools are a disgrace, and rather than intelligence or character, a child's destiny is often determined by his or her zip code.
Rewind to computing's earliest decades and being a "hacker" was a term of praise rather than disgrace.
Rather than a shining light in this area of the world, Afghanistan will continue to be a disgrace.
"The pitch is a disgrace, a disgrace.
