Sentences with phrase «national humiliation»

"National humiliation" refers to a feeling of shame or embarrassment experienced by an entire country due to a humiliating event or situation. It is a sense of collective disgrace that affects the overall pride and standing of a nation. Full definition
The West was now seen to have feet of clay, while at the same time it could even more credibly be blamed for Russia's national humiliations over the previous two decades.
It is a history of defeat, national humiliation, economic misery, and the tangle of social pathologies for which the Weimar period has come to stand.
One may have thought a national humiliation and the hiring of a new coach would have helped them shake things up, though this performance was the latest in a line of underwhelming displays at this tournament.
He flew from Chicago to Miami, to the Dolphins, and realized the team that had rescued him from his national humiliation and draft slide really did want him.
And it's just as well they're looking good, since they've a national humiliation to avenge.
Tory MP Priti Patel called it «a disgraceful decision», «perverse» and a «national humiliation».
A brilliant campaign waged by Alexis Tsipras and the leadership of Syriza united all those who want an end to austerity and to the national humiliation of living under the diktat of Brussels / Frankfurt and Washington.
They added: «In respect of the newly valuable Falklands and their oilfields, because of these and other cuts, for the next ten years at least, Argentina is practically invited to attempt to inflict on us a national humiliation on the scale of the loss of Singapore.
Mexico's president Enrique Pena Nieto was savaged on social media and in political circles following his joint press conference with Trump, with many seeing a national humiliation in his welcoming of a man who has derided migrants as rapists and criminals.
This deft blend of mortal terror, personal and national humiliations and Hollywood chutzpah is one of the best pictures of the year.
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