| The prospect of ignominious home defeat loomed ever larger with the passing minutes, until those dramatic closing stages turned the tide. |
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| Impressively, in a short time, you succeeded where Soviet peace efforts struggled for ten years before giving up in ignominious failure. |
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| But we are entitled to expect something better than the overblown claims and ignominious climbdowns that are their hallmark. |
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| Having come from such an ignominious background there was a certain amount of trepidation but fear not for I discovered the magic of the wok! |
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| Alas, as he makes its way to ignominious demise, he appears to have committed career seppuku. |
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| It is their incorrigible pettishness and ignominious attitude towards their voters that makes the whole nation suffer. |
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| But after the ignominious recapture of a king who appeared bent on internationalizing his plight, other monarchs were alarmed. |
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| Why then has the Nice treaty ratification ended in such ignominious defeat? |
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| After Germany's ignominious defeat in World War I, Hitler made Germans feel good for ten years, anyway. |
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| The recent ignominious defeat for John McEnroe's much touted Davis Cup team underlined the problem. |
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| Such is the suffering, ignoble and ignominious, it inflicts on the viewers. |
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| The second, a wasting contagion, produces an entropic narrative of slow dying, finally petering away into ignominious extinction. |
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| But once developed and utilized, it is a tool that can make the difference between glorious victory, and ignominious defeat. |
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| While Scotland will be nervous of repeating their previous ignominious performance, at least Vogts' men will have their supporters behind them. |
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| At what point do we take that ignominious, shabby route down from the moral high ground to defend a Labour government? |
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| This tradition was unduly neglected for decades, especially after what was seen as its ignominious defeat in the later Imperial period. |
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| An early intervention by elements of the US 24th Division resulted in an ignominious defeat. |
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| Of course, ignominious ends for formerly beautiful actresses is a tale familiar to the point of cliche. |
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| It is time to get over our memories about the brief ignominious period and look forward to a much more glorious future. |
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| Books, in fact, provide some of the best examples of this ignominious protectionist tendency in Irish history, North and South. |
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| Given such a glorious genesis, who could have foreseen the ignominious demise lurking in the future? |
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| Latin America and the Caribbean have the ignominious record of being the region with the greatest number of military coups in the world. |
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| The victim of the confidence game refuses to believe that he is being relieved of his money and dignity, but an ignominious fate awaits him every time. |
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| Those who witnessed Christ's arrest, his impious trial, his unjust condemnation, his ignominious death, mistakenly concluded that all had ended. |
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| It must play an active part because as history has demonstrated, in politics and in war, merely to play a passive role is ignominious. |
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| But we will not make progress with prohibitions alone, as is so well demonstrated by the ignominious failure of the American Prohibition. |
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| Recently at least, they are, for the most part, ignominious liars, dissemblers, shape-changers, not particularly attractive people, even by their own reckoning. |
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| A repatriation ceremony would help bury the ignominious squabbles of the past. |
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| It was two years after the ignominious end of the Vietnam War and three years after Watergate. |
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| International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's ignominious downfall was more than a personal call to account. |
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| Zidane is famous for providing both the greatest and the most ignominious moments in French World Cup history. |
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| A spindly old man produced a bagpipe and blew it in competition with the flutist, beginning in wild, warlike tones and ending with an ignominious splutter and hiss. |
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| Ulysses is a terrible novel and deserves to die an ignominious death. |
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| At one stage the European No 1 was in the ignominious position of propping up the field in 60th place, but his rally at the end restored some dignity. |
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| Council sporting officials thought children could be psychologically damaged by the trauma of an ignominious drubbing at the hands of more gifted players. |
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| However it has not been plain sailing for the American since his arrival at Meadowbank last month in wake of the Scots' ignominious start to the BBL season. |
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| But the most ignominious expulsion from the royal family was the case of two smooth sumacs from Walla Walla, Washington. |
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| It was an ignominious trend that likewise took place in many parts of the world, including the Mascarenes. |
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| The clothing supplied by the Detaining Power to internees and the outward markings placed on their own clothes shall not be ignominious nor expose them to ridicule. |
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| If the 1982 FIFA World Cup Spain? qualifying campaign holds a momentous place in the annals of New Zealand football, it has an equally ignominious status for antipodean rivals Australia. |
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| We have to react against this ignominious scenario, which is not in keeping with the modern business market and with the type of prosperous and social economy that we have in Europe. |
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| How can we not act collectively, given these arguably ignominious actions? |
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| In our hemisphere, we have firmly turned the page on an ignominious chapter of anti-democratic military power grabs, unsupported by the vast majority of the people and encouraged solely by a selfish and short-sighted elite. |
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| At the same time, the ignominious withdrawal of Soviet occupying forces from Afghanistan demonstrated that armed struggle against even the strongest and most ruthless opponent was a viable option. |
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| No one gave them a prayer in the Premier League, everyone predicted instant and ignominious failure, yet in that first season the Latics hit the ground running. |
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| And sure enough, management in North America and much of Western Europe has suffered an ignominious blow over the past two or three decades from the Japanese, whose culture has endowed them with a long view of time. |
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| In order to reach culmination, Love must pass through the powers of hatred and come out victorious, concretely, from a betrayal which leads Jesus, the unique Son, to the ignominious death of an evildoer. |
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| Afonso's life ended on a bitter note, with a painful and ignominious close. |
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| The civilians prevailed, and a very angry Frederick Henry had to order an ignominious retreat of the Dutch invading force. |
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| And yet it also seems that Khashoggi avoided anything as ignominious as personal bankruptcy. |
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| As uncomfortable as that experience was, still more troubling was his family's reaction to the first volume, a mordant reflection on the ignominious demise of Knausgaard's father. |
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| Their trip to Russia will go a fair way to deciding whether they will top Group F, and to avoid defeat they will surely have to improve on their last away performance, an ignominious 2-1 win over Luxembourg. |
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| The 76-year-old's three-year spell as finance minister was ignominious. |
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| McNamara's axing of Rangi Chase, in favour of forgotten man Gareth Widdop, will either prove to be a masterstroke or bring to an ignominious end his four-year tenure. |
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| Waugh continued the feud long after his Oxford days by using Cruttwell's name in his early novels for a succession of ludicrous, ignominious or odious minor characters. |
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