| But the problem is clearly institutional and not at all limited to his inglorious tenure. |
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| The life of the powerful wonderworker would have ended in ignoble solitude and inglorious obscurity. |
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| Hence, the foundational roots of the prosperity the developed nations enjoy today lie firmly in this inglorious past. |
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| Byron's inglorious season sunk to new depths on Sunday with 82-6 and 76-6 losses to South Grafton in first and reserve grades. |
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| Like most of us, my dreams of setting foot on a major-league baseball field died a painful, inglorious death in youth. |
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| Ian did so-so at school, and then was kicked out of Sandhurst in inglorious circumstances. |
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| It is a close call as to which incident from our long and inglorious international past has done more damage to the country's collective psyche. |
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| During the two inglorious years preceding the Emergency, the country had seemed on the verge of a catastrophe. |
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| I cannot recall another such memorial which so succinctly embraces the horror, waste and inglorious squalor of its theme. |
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| Even the executioner, once an inglorious and shadowy person, became just a regular state employee. |
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| The press coverage evoked memories of the inglorious end to Sanford's two terms as an obstructionist governor. |
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| There were tanks and armored personnel carriers on the streets, and checkpoints manned by young soldiers, cold and miserable under the inglorious Polish December. |
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| The saddest aspect of this whole inglorious dilemma is that public opinion is almost completely oblivious of the hidden cost that must be paid to comfort the farmers' pride. |
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| If it happens, it will be an inglorious first in Indian hockey history. |
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| Scripps executives tried to laugh away the inglorious ranking by saying that Mr. Jablin was near the bottom of Time's list. |
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| The television talking heads jabbed their pencils at us like unsharpened swords, so furious were they at Petrino for his inglorious exit. |
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| Alonso had a suspected electrical problem on the first lap of the second session and stuttered to an inglorious halt. |
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| Ten days later, an inglorious coup regrettably put an end to these efforts. |
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| They were able to produce a unique profile of the web in all of its inglorious forms. |
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| It is too early to conclude that fair-value accounting has come to an inglorious end. |
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| Montenegro's role is especially inglorious, for it has become Europe's main hub for tobacco smuggling, with the State taking a generous cut. |
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| The way in which reconfiguration started was, in our opinion, an inglorious episode indeed. |
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| In the economic and social field, debt, division and instability make up the inglorious heritage, the poisoned legacy we leave to our successors. |
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| On that morning on 28 September 1988, Hingsen's career came to an inglorious end in the Olympic stadium in Seoul. |
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| With 38 fatalities for every 1,000 accidents, motorcyclists also occupied the inglorious top spot ahead of other vehicles. |
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| Honnestly, being afraid that a crate is going to fall on your face during your sleep is really inglorious? |
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| A founding member of the league, the Ohioan club's history prior to last season had been generally inglorious. |
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| In particular it may have marked an inglorious ending for Sol Campbell, Portsmouth's most successful captain for half a century. |
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| Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East. |
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| Far from enabling the Government to pursue an independent policy to defend British jobs and business, this would condemn us to inglorious isolation at the mercy of every cold wind from across the Channel. |
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| This excrescency is hardly a denouement in the African personality of centered African lore, but its inglorious bastardization. |
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| After 44 consecutive years in the top flight and eight national titles, Les Canaris bid an inglorious farewell to Ligue 1 by ending the season rock bottom. |
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| Michael Gordon: The Age Julia Gillard has delivered the ultimate act of leadership and paid the ultimate price, ending the most poisonous, inglorious chapter in modern Labor Party history. |
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| The army that claimed the inglorious victory was a sorry lot as well. |
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| When on 12 May 1764 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach tended his resignation as Music Director and Organist at Halle a brilliant musical epoch came to an inglorious end. |
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| The unicameral assembly is an unjust assembly. Since that date bicameralism has been a constant of the French constitutional system, with the exception of a short period of the second republic that came to an inglorious end. |
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| In the same passage as Jackson's inglorious fall, Stanford blesses President Lincoln, abolisher of slavery, and Baby Gauge, one of Francis's black blood brothers. |
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| He cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious. |
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