Sentence examples for shameful event from inspiring English sources

A monument now commemorates this shameful event.

He described the shootings, in his own words, as a "deeply shameful event".

I haven't come up with anything terribly original, but didn't want to let this shameful event go unmentioned.

David Cameron visited the scene of the killings in 2013, and while being criticised for not offering a full apology he described it as a "deeply shameful event".

The Israeli embassy in London said the meeting was a "shameful event which gave voice to racist tropes against Jews and Israelis alike".

The massacre of hundreds of protesters at the hands of British troops in 1919, he wrote, was "a deeply shameful event in British history".

Here was an American telling French people about shameful events in their nation's recent past.

Whitaker explains why: "As with many racial histories of this kind," he says, it was "one of those shameful events best not talked about".

Travis Meyer New York City Having read Hersh's original reports about the My Lai killings, I was sorry that his recent article about the shameful events omitted one redemptive scene.

Sir William Gage, the inquiry chairman, said Mr Mousa had been subjected to "violent and cowardly abuse" and singled out four soldiers as those who "bear a heavy responsibility" for the "shameful events" that took place between 14 and 16 September 2003.

Ms. Palin seems oblivious to the consequences of hate-mongering in this country that in the past have led to some of the most tragic and shameful events in our country's history.