Sentences with phrase «obloquy heaped»

I refer, first, to the media obloquy heaped on the head of the Irish primate Cardinal Sean Brady for not reporting a Catholic priest for paedophile offences 40 years ago even though it was not his responsibility to do so; and, secondly, to the sentencing to varying terms of imprisonment of nine Muslims for the gross sexual exploitation of a group of wretched, helpless, underage girls.

The morning after Benedict's speech, I caught a discussion on the radio in which two well - known historians, eager to add their reproach to the obloquy heaped on Manuel, agreed that the emperor was no different from the Crusaders» oblivious to the dolorous history in which the Crusaders two centuries earlier had burned and ravaged Constantinople, the seat of Manuel's government, during the Fourth Crusade and set up Western Christian rule in the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Some of the obloquy heaped upon Colson was undeserved: for example it is a journalistic myth that he attempted to order the bombing of the Brookings Institute.