This was called "correcting" one's nationality, and thousands of Kurds and Turkomans agreed to undergo the humiliation in order to stay in Kirkuk or hold on to a job or obtain a business license.
He said that he was pleading guilty because he saw no chance of winning his case and did not want to undergo the humiliation of coming to court daily, waiting in cold holding cells, and undergoing routine strip searches.
That the German government is prepared to undergo the humiliation of resorting to such slippery manoeuvres shows, say euro-enthusiasts, just how committed it is to the new currency.
He is perhaps reluctant to undergo the humiliation of a full climb-down (especially galling for a teacher used to imposing his will on a class) or is unwilling to abandon his youthful zeal.
The judge's comments came as he refused to accept a guilty plea from the defendant, who claimed that he had no chance of winning his case in an American court and did not want to undergo the humiliation of a trial.
After undergoing the humiliation of having their heads shaved they were paraded through the streets, occasionally to the sound of drums, as if France was re-enacting the Reign of Terror in the French revolution.
As if the poor man hasn't suffered enough, with all these women who keep coming forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault dating back decades and now court documents being unsealed in which he admits to obtaining drugs to use on women "he wanted to have sex with", Bill Cosby now undergoes the humiliation of having his likeness removed from the Walt Disney World Hall of Fame Plaza.
Notwithstanding his victory in the battle against the fallen angels, the Son is more heroic because he is willing to undergo voluntary humiliation, a sign of his consummate love for humankind.
The once noble Trojan women are forced to undergo humiliation and pain beyond endurance.
There is hardly one of them who does not, like Adam, undergo the deepest humiliation — and hardly one who is not deemed worthy of God's personal intervention and personal inspiration.
