Sentences with phrase «in ignoble»

Several years ago the company tried to expand its operations into the U.S. but the effort ended in ignoble failure and a hasty retreat.

If Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who is already under the spotlight for possible corruption, and the next Senate leader continue in that ignoble tradition, then they, too, must be excised from leadership.»

Like the savage, he may make his bed wherever his right arm can support him, and from his simple and athletic attitude of observation, the property - owner seems buried and smothered in ignoble externalities and trammels, «wading in straw and rubbish to his knees.»

Not exact matches

In answer to the scandalous question of the woman, to her ignoble and yet desperate situation, the prophet gave God's answer — a positive answer.

The vessels of «dishonor» are not vessels which are destroyed, but vessels which will be used in «ignoble» ways.

The Zealots, fanatical as they were, had no ignoble cause to fight for, and they gave an example of uncalculating courage in a not very heroic age.

Human experience gives abundant evidence that unless virtues are finally transmuted by the spirit of love they may become deadly in the service of ruthless and ignoble desires.

Colleges, and the students educated in them, are time capsules by which we send noble — or ignoble — ideas and virtues into the future.

Indeed, Shirer's viewpoint lives on at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington (where visitors are shown a film that accuses Luther of being the progenitor of Germany's National Socialism) and in the remarks of an Alan Dershowitz: «It is shocking that Luther's ignoble name is still honored rather than forever cursed by mainstream Protestant churches.»

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

Thinking to be noble in not desiring life after death, we become most ignoble in our accusation of God as the creator of such a world as this with nothing more to follow!

And yet how quickly it feels that the government has slid backwards in time to settle in embarrassingly ignoble positions.

«The noble seeds of human nature sprout upwards in their purity almost on their own if the ignoble ones, the weeds, are sought out and destroyed in time.

From his roles in the Patricia Etteh saga culminating in the now notorious and ignoble image of Dino in his torn attire on the floor of the House; to his alleged threat to beat up a woman, a fellow senator and wife of former Lagos State Governor, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, to the controversial paternity issue with a known Nollywood actress; to his ostentatious display of personal wealth such as his expensive automobiles, to his certificate scandal and many more, what is it that Dino represents that should be the envy of the right - thinking?

Nick Griffin's time as a major player in the British National party (BNP) comes to an ignoble end after he's expelled for causing «disunity»

Even Anambra voters in general were unhappy with Obi for playing the ignoble role of godfather and imposing Obaze on them.

Ayokunle, said though the government has taken battle to several groups that threatened the peace, unity, and security of the nation, it has not demonstrated any concerted effort to nip the ignoble activities of the armed Fulani herdsmen in a bud.

JFAN said in a statement issued today by its Coordinator, Dr Dada Popoola and made available to journalists online that it was highly disappointed that a governor like Fayemi, who came to power through the instrument of the rule of law could descend to such an ignoble level of using police to harass anyone for criticising him.

After all, where is the scientific grandeur in such ignoble acts?

«I implore you to please allow ID to die the ignoble death that it has earned here in Dover,» he said.

But now researchers have shown, for flies at least, that the champion meets an ignoble end: After hanging out in the embryo during development, the sperm's remnants are excreted when the larvae hatches.

I know the word «Kefir» is actually an age old fermented product, and I don't mean to incite a controversy or debate over your name «Kefir»», but you must be aware that in South Africa it is probably the most offensive racial slur word directed against blacks (especially during the ignoble Apartheid era).

Juan returns to Rome trying to spin his combat injury as proof of his valor, but Cesare exposes his brother's ignoble behavior; Lucrezia takes a lover in her intended husband's younger brother; Della Rovere has recruited an angel - faced young friar as his suicide assassin, and the young man advances their agenda with a bold move against the Pope's food taster.

Synopsis: After an ignoble landing in Ratropolis, a pampered rodent (Hugh Jackman) enlists the help of a sewer scavenger (Kate Winslet) in finding his way back to his posh London flat.

Did you cringe when that cute double - headed mutant lizard met such an ignoble end in Mad Max Fury Road's first scene?

DLC characters that are already in the game, 25 characters, 13 doubloons, it's ignoble.

Alfredson plays with the idea of beauty and its loss in the character of disgraced analyst Connie (Kathy Burke) and Connie's scene in the modest bedroom of her ignoble retirement.

When you collate these wins and nominations (just in the last 14 years, let me remind you) to women nominated for Best Director in the narrative - feature category, the disparities are embarrassing and ignoble.

Dark Skies has the ignoble distinction of being one of the most expensive and lowest - grossing films of producer Jason Blum, a man whose recent credits are advertised in the marketing instead of the cast or director.

Its company there (Thor, Captain America, etc.) dwarves Priest's $ 60 million production budget and even more so its $ 29.1 million domestic gross, a sum that would be pitiful any time of the year, but is especially ignoble in cinema's busiest months.

The protagonist, Sir Harry Flashman, is an illustrious Victorian soldier in the British Army and is a complete lout, both ignoble and, in many ways, utterly contemptible.

The company also received the ignoble honour of the Golden Poo in 2012, which was thought to be a reaction to the extremely negative reaction of fans to the handling of Mass Effect 3's ending.

The vacuous use of zombies in modern games feels ignoble in the light of their origins as a satirical device.

Phil Spencer, the man who's been in charge of the Xbox business plan since Don Mattrick's ignoble departure in July 2013, has a stock answer for this.

He would significantly rework several earlier essays in the 1960s and beyond, but never backed down from his notorious rigidity: a principled avant - garde held aloft one end of the seesaw, ignoble kitsch slumped heavily on the other.

«Crossroads,» as the piece is called, was made by San Francisco artist Bruce Conner back in 1976, when the Cold War was still casting a chill over international politics, and the U.S. was feeling chastened just a year after its ignoble departure from Vietnam.

I agree that the machinations are unsurprising in light of the ignoble history of some key individuals in paleoclimatology, but I still can not view them with anything other than distaste.

Coming off a gig as Vice President, an ignoble job to begin with, to the most embarrassing President in US history, Bill Clinton, he then proceeded to lose the Presidential election to a political lightweight, George W. Bush.

The Conservative's ignoble and illegal response to the air pollution crisis continues with the topic not meriting a mention in the manifesto.

Quite an effort has been made by many people (including Dr Richard Muller) to portray the BEST pre-pre-pre-papers as some kind of death blow against climate skepticism, as if the whole debate had been a sports match with everybody pigeonholed in two opposite camps: here, the noble scientists finding out the world is warming; there, the ignoble skeptics pretending the world is not warming.

To build a solid, sustainable career, a good agent doesn't resort to the more ignoble characteristics as depicted in the current definition described in my last column.