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By his abuse of the traditional right of asylum granted to ambassadorial precincts in Rome, he precipitated a quarrel between France and the papacy, which resulted in Alexander VII's temporary loss of Avignon and his forced acceptance of the humiliating treaty of Pisa in 1664.
With their efforts repulsed, and more Habsburg fortresses captured as a result, Ferdinand and his brother Charles V were forced to conclude a humiliating five-year treaty with Suleiman.
The treaty marked Russia's final withdrawal from World War I as an enemy of her co-signatories, on unexpectedly humiliating terms.
At the Battle of the Caudine Forks they were kept penned in without supplies, especially water, until the Senate bought their release in exchange for a half-year treaty the Romans considered humiliating, by which they provided hostages and gave up the colonies.
" The treaty also states that there must not be any " violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture " or " outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment ".
In 1214 the Jin made a humiliating treaty but retained the capital.
Milner was a hard-line conservative and wanted forcibly to Anglicise the Afrikaans people ( the Boers ), and Milner and the British government wanted to assert victory by forcing the Boers to sign a humiliating peace treaty ; Kitchener wanted a more generous compromise peace treaty that would recognize certain rights for the Afrikaners and promise future self-government.
Later, in 1547, Charles signed a humiliating treaty with the Ottomans to gain him some respite from the huge expenses of their war, in which he was seen as the equivalent of the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire-Ibrahim Pasha at the time-and was referred to as only the King of Spain since there could only be one Emperor in the world and it was Suleiman.
Still, in 1305, Philip forced the Flemish to accept a harsh peace treaty, playing out his superior diplomatic skills ; the peace exacted heavy reparations and humiliating penalties, and added to the royal territory the rich cloth cities of Lille and Douai, sites of major cloth fairs.
Narses did not survive for long after the conclusion of this humiliating treaty.
If the treaty did indeed exist, its terms were humiliating for Persia.
This humiliating treaty, which undid all the Greek gains of the previous century, sacrificed the Greeks of Asia Minor so that the Spartans could maintain their hegemony over Greece.
The treaty was a most humiliating blow to the once-mighty Ottoman realm.
In 1850 came the revelation of defective organization and efficiency which led to the humiliating treaty of Olmütz.
The Gorkhali were forced into signing a humiliating treaty revoking their trading privileges in Tibet and requiring them to pay tribute to Peking every five years.
The Song empire, however, had to sign a humiliating treaty with the Jin, agreeing to pay a colossal war indemnity and to give a tribute to Jin every year.
A humiliating treaty with the Arabs of Sicily, who were asked to help subdue revolts in Italy, did little to improve the position of Zoe and her supporters.
The treaty was a major setback for Charles, and its terms were humiliating.
However, internal disenssions in Argentina and the signing of what was perceived to be a humiliating peace treaty brought down Rivadavia's presidency.
From 1945 on, Egypt attempted to renegotiate the terms of this treaty, which was viewed as a humiliating vestige of colonialism.
As a result, France was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty.
He had a distinguished career as Captain-General, but was forced to sign a humiliating peace treaty with Suleiman I in 1540, ceding Venice's last possessions in the Peloponnese to the Ottoman Empire.
Finally, both the rulers of the Ahmadnagar and Berar were forced to sign a humiliating treaty.

humiliating and contemporary
On the other hand, a contemporary source says that one general Leo of the Armeniakon theme was punished for his humiliating defeat by the Arabs during which he also lost the salaries of his thematic units ( a modern scholar suggests that this Leo is not the same with the emperor ).

humiliating and spread
Only after Naidu's humiliating defeat she let spread the ashes of her husband at Haridwar, eight years after his death.
He was supposed to help Duck with his shunting, but after humiliating himself in front of the trucks, he spread such mean-spirited rumours about Duck and the other engines that the Fat Controller was compelled to send him away.

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One day he took Opal to eat with his parents, however his dad began humiliating her because of her Japanese heritage.
In Sri Lanka's humiliating drubbing at the hands of India in 1993 – 94, where all three Tests were innings defeats, Muralitharan was the sole success, with 12 wickets in the rubber.
* Marcus Antonius is defeated by the Cretans, who has made an alliance with the pirates, he is compelled to conclude a humiliating peace.
At the Colloquy of Worms in 1557 which he attended only reluctantly, the adherents of Flacius and the Saxon theologians tried to avenge themselves by thoroughly humiliating Melanchthon, in agreement with the malicious desire of the Roman Catholics to condemn all heretics, especially those who had departed from the Augsburg Confession, before the beginning of the conference.
Finding delight in humiliating old nobility, she arranged the marriage of old Prince Galitzine, who had incurred her displeasure by marrying an Italian Catholic, with one of her maids ( after the death of his first wife ), an elderly Kalmyk called Avdotaya Ivanovna.
Instead of facing O ' Neill in battle, Essex had to make a truce with the rebel leader that was considered humiliating to the Crown and to the detriment of English authority.
In February 1949, Nasser was sent as a member of the Egyptian delegation to Rhodes to negotiate a formal ceasefire with Israel, and reportedly considered the terms to be humiliating.
In fact, George III, from the moment of his accession, never set foot in the palace ; he associated the state apartments with a humiliating scene when his grandfather had once struck him following an innocent remark.
His final screen-work was playing the lead role in Dr. Fischer of Geneva ( adapted from the Graham Greene novella, 1985 ) as the eccentric wealthy businessman who played games with the Swiss upper class, such as offering gifts to his guests on the proviso they accepted some humiliating ritual activity ( such as wearing a child's bib at the dinner table ).
# Destroy, shred, stomp, burn, or perform other actions with the intention of disfiguring, humiliating or degrading the honor of the Flag State ;
America's credibility in the world was imperiled by its humiliating withdrawal from Vietnam, and the war there was shortly to come to an end with the annexation of America's ally South Vietnam by the North.
During the Suez Crisis, when Britain invaded Egypt in collusion with France and Israel, according to Labour leader Harold Wilson Macmillan was ' first in, first out ': first very supportive of the invasion, then a prime mover in Britain's humiliating withdrawal in the wake of the financial crisis caused by pressure from the U. S. government.
Recollections of his cruelties and vices-along with his humiliating defeat-caused him to be greatly detested.
The novel ends with Peter restored as Hegemon, Petra reunited with Bean, a Caliph in command of the world's Muslims, a China severely reduced in territory and forced to accept humiliating surrender terms, and the embryos still lost.
After suffering a humiliating practical joke and being condemned to prison, Benjamin escapes with Manette, who realizes she prefers happiness to a marriage contract after all.
Historian Susan Redford speculates that Pentawere, being a noble, was given the option to commit suicide by taking poison and so be spared the humiliating fate of some of the other conspirators who would have been burned alive with their ashes strewn in the streets.
Jovian sought peace with the Persians on humiliating terms, and reestablished Christianity as the favored religion of the Empire.
He was not popular with the army, mainly due to humiliating treaties signed in 251 with the Goths and King Shapur I of Persia who attacked Syria.

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