Sentences with phrase «made ignoble»

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The trauma of slavery, the fratricide of the Civil War, the profound legal ramifications of the Reconstruction amendments, the ignoble post-Reconstruction retreat from the moral and practical implications of black citizenship, the collective redemption of the Civil Rights Movement — these have worked to make us Americans the people we are.

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.»

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.

If people are born with certain drives, if certain ignoble traits, such as violence and selfishness, are innate, then that might make them unchangeable, and attempts at social reform and human improvement might be proven to be a waste of time.

«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.

These objects were often made of ignoble materials chosen for their mimetic effect.

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.