| Generally, those of the lower orders abased themselves through prostration in front of those who outranked them. |
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| I abased myself in such a way that it makes me cringe to even remember it. |
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| Countless bank executives have abased themselves at her feet. |
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| Their president abased himself with ritual abject apologies. |
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| Those who are jealous will be abased and Allah will give His servant victory in every field. |
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| The supporting system of this roof gutter had rotten away and the left side had gotten loose and was abased. |
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| But my brother abased himself intellectually the same way they all did. |
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| Perhaps, my dear confreres, you think that a man is truly humble and has really abased himself when he has taken the last place. |
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| Has not Jesus said that 'Whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased, and whosoever humbleth himself shall be exalted? |
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| Then, humbled, confounded and abased before this holy, venerated indigenous Aztec, I had to prostrate myself with reverence. |
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| As they did with the Murdoch press, politicians who have abased themselves before the financial elite are now denouncing corrupt bankers and each other for failing to bring them to heel. |
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| And I will yet be more contemptible than this, and will be abased in my own sight: and of the maidservants whom you have spoken, of them shall I be held in honor. |
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