Sentence examples for shameful role from inspiring English sources

She will be remembered for her shameful role during the hunger strikes.

The D.A.R. has never entirely recovered from its shameful role in this episode.

Thatcher will be especially remembered for her shameful role during the epic hunger strikes of 1980 and 81.

"The Quake" offers a brief recap of Haitian history, including the United States' sometimes shameful role, and interviews with government officials, relief workers and others.

ISTANBUL — THE protests that convulsed Istanbul and other Turkish cities last month exposed, among many other things, the shameful role of Turkey's media conglomerates in subverting press freedom.

When Yavuz Baydar, the Turkish journalist, offered us his Op-Ed on what he called the "shameful role of Turkey's media conglomerates in subverting press freedom," Mr. Baydar knew he was putting his job at risk.

The European banks, insurance companies and industrial giants concerned even well- known U.S. corporations with European operations played shameful roles of resistance.

In 1999, for instance, President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin astonished an all-black congregation in Baltimore by falling to his knees and begging African-Americans' forgiveness for the "shameful" and "abominable" role Africans played in the trade.

In this, one might think, youthful Germans' politics are best dramatised by Michael Verhoeven's 1990 film The Nasty Girl, about a young student who does a school project about the history of her home town and exposes shameful secrets about the roles played by older members of her community during the Third Reich.

After being seized at Kennedy Airport in New York in September 2002, Mr Arar was abducted to Syria, where he was secretly imprisoned, interrogated and tortured before being returned to Canada a year later.The Mounties, as they are known, are not the only Canadian officials criticised by Dennis O'Connor, the Ontario judge charged with investigating Canada's role in the shameful affair.

Derek Jacobi speaks these lines on an empty stage at the beginning of the film, in a shameful pastiche of his own role in the opening of Kenneth Branagh's production of Henry V. Who thinks Shakespeare couldn't have been a good writer because his father was a tradesman?