| The statue has been covered in sackcloth in central Bangalore for more than a decade because of opposition from some Kannada organisations. |
| Even Fischer, who has faced most criticism, has meekly put on sackcloth and ashes and done penitence. |
| The sackcloth and ashes of 1999 are being cast off and he is not sorry now for campaigning against the Scottish parliament. |
| And they need to wear their sackcloth and ashes, not in a back room, but openly. |
| At the last minute, he saw the danger and went around talking loudly about the need for republicans to wear sackcloth and ashes. |
| And I pictured portly monks in sackcloth habits fighting off marauders with arrows blessed by some medieval bishop. |
