The story of native residential schools is an ignoble chapter in Canadian history. |
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She walked through the ignoble arch that separated kitchen from living room and took some bread from the pantry. |
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In the eyes of many contemporary and also later Chinese, this was an ignoble outcome that strongly compromised China's dignity and interests. |
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There is also a strong message that vengeance is ignoble, and sacrificing oneself for any higher cause is honorable. |
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Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies. |
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But the elevated, even chivalric, tone in which it is being conducted scarcely even masks its onesided and ignoble purpose. |
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He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths. |
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In these days of globalisation, the global picture of women is most ignoble and inequitable. |
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The entire venture was an ignoble failure, calling forth from Bernard a passionate lament over the sins of the crusaders. |
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They were an ignoble race not unlike the despicable Gorlocs, and they needed to be defeated for their dishonor. |
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The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. |
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Such is the suffering, ignoble and ignominious, it inflicts on the viewers. |
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It hit the floor with an ignoble splatting sound, and they both stared at it. |
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At the sight of them a rude, equally animal resentment rises in me, compounded of shame, fear, and ignoble joy not to be one of them. |
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The vicarious emotions that the accounts of the trial provoked range from the honourable, through the ignoble to the thoroughly perverse. |
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Yerby's characterization of Fancy is, therefore, ironic, emphasizing the ignoble origins of most Southerners. |
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There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization. |
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All right, Tarzan has no black characters, not even servants, neither noble nor ignoble savages. |
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This was the type of fight that boxing fans like and purists of the ignoble art turn their backs on. |
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And yes, incidentally, I do know that it's ignoble and cowardly and pusillanimous, but I'll swap you for a decent night's sleep. |
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Live life for God and our motives are no longer mercenary, and our life is not founded on an ignoble base. |
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Pink or brown, time to break with an ignoble past, and that includes breaking with reptile-brained reactions to differences in skin-melanin content or epicanthic eyelid folds. |
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Amidst the bleak despair of this ignoble abdication, a few organisations bravely banded together under the banner of Citizens Initiative in Ahmedabad. |
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I took the Salon piece as an attempt to honestly portray an ignoble side of human nature, without praising it and even while acknowledging its ignobility. |
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There was that innocently ignoble time Phoebe Buffay pretended she was a physician named Dr. Regina Phalange. |
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Travellers from Marco Polo onwards had created a rich and often fanciful literature depicting the lives of noble and ignoble savages in varying states of nature. |
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The genealogy of Jesus, for example, consists of both noble and ignoble ancestors, including women like Tamar, Rahab and Ruth. |
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By doing so, they make the world out to be a more cynical and ignoble place than it actually is. |
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Disability's psychological and bodily variations have been used to metaphorize nearly every social conflict outside its own ignoble predicament in culture. |
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Twentyfive years of unquestioning support for the murderous Suharto regime in Indonesia, now brought down by a courageous democracy movement, is one ignoble example. |
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In all these wars, the rapists have a common ideology: going beyond humiliation, to destroy the other person by attacking the woman, the procreator, in an ignoble fashion. |
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The unscrupulous cover version has a long and ignoble history. |
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This meant, among other things, an ignoble battle among newbies to sponsor bills that would allow them to curry favour with interest groups who would finance their next campaign. |
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Such gaps are the inevitable, and perhaps admirable, result of a biographer striving to maintain the ethical high ground, but they can't help but stimulate the reader's ignoble curiosity. |
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Those who believe that, make whatever end they seek ignoble. |
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The European Union utterly condemns such ignoble acts and calls on the authorities to do everything in their power to find and punish the perpetrators. |
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If you associate with ignoble ones you become ignoble. |
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Yes, Billy was a foundling, a presumable bye-blow, and, evidently, no ignoble one. |
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The gulf between noble and ignoble was very large, but the difference between a freeman and an indentured labourer was small. |
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In other words, it was a thing of beauty from a land of ignoble ugliness. |
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Is it tragedy when a torero dies heroically in the ring or more so if he fails to die in the midst of his practice and instead suffers an ignoble death years later? |
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The domestic snarler is felt to be a curse and an ignoble varlet, since for small reasons, or no reasons, he will disturb domestic peace and engender discomfort. |
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The term ignoble savage has an obvious negative connotation. |
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