Sentences with phrase «sometimes ignominious»

Characters major and minor in the story of nuclear science come alive in Mahaffey's lively, accessible retelling of some of the field's more obscure (and sometimes ignominious) moments.

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Along the way, the workers» fantasies about England keep rudely bumping into the ignominious, brutal, and sometimes dangerous realities of life on the margins for immigrants in the new globalized labor market.

«This year, thanks to a state high court majority's barely contained contempt for the policy - making authority of the legislative and executive branches of government, and a notoriously aggressive and sometimes lawless plaintiffs» bar, Florida earns the ignominious # 1 ranking among eight Judicial Hellholes, even as authorities have begun to crack down on some of the lawsuit industry's most obviously fraudulent rackets.