Sentences with phrase «ignominious first»

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Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept, who has also worked closely with Snowden, said the newspaper had «achieved an ignominious feat in U.S. media history: the first - ever paper to explicitly editorialize for the criminal prosecution of its own source.»

Another first for Bitcoin, but an ignominious one: The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed its first fraud lawsuit involving the virtual currency, claiming it was used in a Ponzi scheme.

After struggling for years as electronics shoppers shifted online, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, marking an ignominious end for the 94 - year - old retailer that had sold the first mass - market computer.

This set France on a course in Vietnam that led to the first Vietnamese war and, after much slaughter and suffering, to the ignominious defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu.

That was an ignominious end to the dream run for State going from unranked to # 1 quicker than anyone in AP poll history and being the first team ever ranked # 1 in a College Football Playoff official ranking to later getting blown out in a bowl game by Georgia Tech.

It is also Hodgson's first role since his ignominious departure from the England job after their shock Euro 2016 defeat to Iceland.

The ignominious end to the Vietnam War and the shame of Watergate and Nixon came first.

Would a male chief of staff, who helped Republicans take out Democratic incumbents for the first time since 1994, receive the same ignominious treatment as Gonzalez?

I prefer to find out «first,» EXACTLY what would meet the caller's needs, not just to please the buyer, but so as not to inconvenience that seller with a ignominious instant showing that ends up having no value.