| There, Alexander is to be execrated because he conquered foreign peoples and overthrew an ancient empire. |
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| The respectable part of the Spanish nation, and more especially the honourable and toilworn peasantry, loathed and execrated both factions. |
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| Those who murdered tourists in Egypt were widely execrated and not just because they threatened to ruin the tourist industry. |
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| Just because he remained so steadfast in an execrated cause, entry into the acceptance world seems to have acquired all the more value. |
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| I found that I didn't much miss Ireland as such, and in fact in many ways I execrated it. |
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| Such memoirs are naturally far removed from the poverty-riven atmosphere and harsh realities say of the recently widely acclaimed, and execrated, Angela's Ashes. |
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| But it transformed the professor of comparative literature at Columbia into a very public intellectual, adored or execrated with equal intensity by many millions of readers. |
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| It may be execrated, but it has shown its strength as it did when it destroyed the Russian aircraft over Sinai on 30 October. |
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| All the same, this very morning, many Members have execrated Saddam's regime and called for democracy and freedom for the Iraqi people. |
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| Luther execrated Müntzer's memory because he seized the sword in defense of the gospel and challenged the social order. |
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| And now, perhaps, it has ridden in on the coattails of the iconoclastic trend in the modern study of fairy tales, with Disney's prettified versions being execrated by feminists and queer-studies writers. |
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| Without the money, the execrated attraction would probably have closed. |
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