Sentences with phrase «as abject»

A withdrawal is rarely done as an abject surrender by the defendant to the plaintiff and his / her claim and the court (if a defendant did not wish to defend, he or she likely would not have filed a statement of defence in the first place).

Buggenhout works with what he describes as abject material: everyday objects detached from their original context and then reused.

Murphy and Buckley cite CRC as an abject lesson in why buy - backs don't work for Darwin's Darlings:

Only Deadpool and Domino survive, painting this first version of X-Force as an abject failure.

You can't take his discomfort or unwillingness to show you his vulnerabilities as abject proof of his disinterest in a long - term relationship,...» Read More

I've documented the media's response to Wikileaks already, and the response to the World Cup decision is just as abject and pitiful.

Surrendering Saif to the ICC would be seen by most Libyans as an abject failure.

That will also signify United's decline and a fourth year of failure, even after the arrivals of Eric Bailly, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba, which could be classed as abject failure.

As brilliant as the Tigers have been at home, they've been equally as abject on the road.

Not exact matches

On the economic plane, we have a society in which there are some who have immense wealth as against many who live in abject poverty.

He is, to be sure, abject; but he doesn't puff himself up with self - loathing, as the Pharisee puffs himself up with self - esteem.

Evangelical christianity is the epitomy of shallow, self rigtious and destructive beliefs and provides nothing of value to humanity whatsoever... One's participation in it reinforces abject stupidity and a lack of understanding of what is inately know to humanity as goodness.

got ta love how Nye, abject hater of all things NASA, now suddenly is a backer of them and the media embraces him as some new Sagan spokesman to the layman for science.

The spirit of revenge is easy — not as easy, perhaps, as is the spirit of abject surrender.

The Church of England has branded Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement as «extreme carelessness» signifying an «abject failure of leadership».

We human beings generally comprehend power as a reality that is on a continuum between abject weakness and invincibility.

There is a long list of brands who have been forced, not just to mollify China, but to issue abject apologies expressing their deep shame over, say, absent - mindedly referring to Taiwan as an independent nation.

When Alan Ball was 13, his sister died in a car accident and his mother's abject grief was hushed and over-buffered by the fashions in funerals then — to treat grief as a structural weakness, by which folks were forever «breaking down» or «falling apart» or «going to pieces.»

It is a form of obedience (as Paul notes in the frame of Romans with his phrase «the obedience of faith») but it is not any form of abject credulity — yet if we metaphorically learn how to be abject (falling at the feet of the Beloved) we will not be disappointed.

It would be easy to say the entire Arsenal team were inexplicably and unprofessionally abject against AS Monaco that all should be on this list but it would be too galling to completely eviscerate 14 players.

Yes, Dean made a howler at WBA but that howler does not explain the teams abject display as we all know.

I would not worry too much if I were you though, because I think that as long as Arsenal do not turn up with the sort of abject showing we saw against Crystal Palace or Watford then we should be alright, and I very much doubt that the players are ready to slack off at the minute.

The Hurricanes appeared primed to make a leap forward this season, but Francis» choice of Scott Darling as the Hurricanes» new No. 1 goaltender has been an abject disaster and two of his other offseason acquisitions — Marcus Krueger and Josh Jooris — were waived last month.

We will lose sponsors as I doubt the TV people will want to cover us any longer with this abject rubbish

I felt that way myself as I watched the Sky Sports panel of Thierry Henry, Souness and Redknapp struggle to understand how the Gunners could have been so abject and naive.

That is not the whole story either, as the manner of our loss to Liverpool was so abject that most Arsenal fans are feeling anything but positive about the new season.

But there is also a growing feeling, which must have grown a lot more after this weekend's abject show at West Brom, that the boss has not got the same control over the Arsenal dressing room as he used to have and Wenger gave this idea even more weight with some of his post match comments reported by Metro.

It was a sound thrashing of an abject opposition as the Reds were rampant in taking home the bragging rights from the derby and some more.

Innit weird that, should Giroud leave as part of the deal for HWNCBP II (He Whose Name Can not Be Pronounced 2, we've signed HWNCBP I today) we will have got rid of our front three, who scored something like 70 goals last season, but have pretty much kept all our defenders and midfielders, who have largely been abject as a unit, and individually.

As I mentioned earlier, Rosicky and Nasri were particularly abject and with Nicklas Bendtner and Robin van Persie out for a little while yet they will need to pull their finger out.

LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger faces the might of Manchester City for the second time in five days on Thursday as the Gunners seek salvation after an abject display in losing the League Cup final 3 - 0.

Embed from Getty Images Despite missing key players like Laurent Koscielny, Santi Cazorla, Danny Welbeck and the goal machine Alexis Sanchez, Arsenal were in fine form as they thrashed an abject Galatasaray side 4 - 1 in Istanbul on Tuesday night.

Last night's abject defeat against Sunderland was epitomised for me by the sight of a young kid crying inconsolably as I plodded down Sir Matt Busby Way before crossing the tram tracks and heading home with a heavy heart.

Everton continued their abject home form with an eighth league defeat at Goodison Park, as an FA Cup semi-final looms like a lone beacon of hope amidst a season to forget.

Nobody is immune to the abject fear and terror that is leaving your baby with somebody else, and Reynolds Tweet sums it up perfectly, even if he didn't, as I suspect, actually drop her off at Burning Man.

But, if we may also add, the privileged world of the corrupt politician needs no love from the poor masses, as the richly lived and living experiences of the corrupt politician is not an academic question, much the same way we might ascribe «life is a dream» to the abject conditionalities of the poor masses.

In spite of all these wealth and resources, Africa is wallowing in abject poverty, and as much as I agree that some of the causes of this unfortunate situation is the making of Africans themselves, much of the blame must be put at the doorsteps of some western countries, and I will explain.

«I first came to the knowledge that the war on drugs was an abject failure when I was working as an intelligence officer at Mi5 in the 1990s.

He further explained that about 16 out of them were later recalled and reinstated while others were left to languish in abject poverty, as they continued to struggle and agitate for justice.

George Canon, the Newcomb supervisor who rose from abject poverty to take a leading role in shaping policy in the Adirondack Park and was known as «Mr. Adirondack,» was laid to rest on Saturday.

The lecture itself can be summed up as the usual humdrum, a rehashed litany of half - truths, abject lies, and a scare - mongering escapade for mere political purposes.

«This is not so much a failure of the system as a complete and abject failure of the media to report their [the committee's] views objectively,» he declared.

Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

Well, it is absolutely none of my business to desire to enquire as to when and why Mr. Banda fell out of friendship with Nana Akufo - Addo; what is definitely my business, as a critically thinking journalist, is to demand, as a matter of fairness and social justice, that Alhaji Banda provide specific and intimate examples of what he claims to be his old friend's abject lack of wisdom, or talent, in bringing people together or uniting the rank - and - file membership of the country's largest liberal - democratic and progressive political organization.

Insiders speak of abject chaos in the leader's office, with his chief spokesperson Seumas Milne singled out as being the major roadblock to any significant improvement.

Moreover, regarding Mr. Cuomo, his father's «abject poor of Essex County» speech in San Francisco (to urban Dems who regard Rural Upstate New Yorkers as backward)... was about her constituents.

Speaking on the success recorded so far, President Buhari described the scheme as an helping hand initiative designed to liberate the nation from abject poverty and hunger.

Many MPs were understandably annoyed that the leader had hired a man who recently celebrated Ed Balls losing his seat and described the Labour front bench as «the most abject collection of complete shite».

The reason that so many of us have been critical in the past lies in the fact that (i) Brown still gets away with his own opinion of himself as chancellor (when he should have resigned because of abject failure) and (ii) the tories had no prompt and coherent strategy to deal with the recent economic disasters as they unfolded.

And this year, a few MPs and journalists have used its abject pointlessness as an excuse to take a break from serious politics.