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One-armed, gruff, frugally honest, Governor Pope had been the ideal man to assume office in Arkansas after the disgraceful antics of political bosses like Crittenden, and he ruled the state with an iron fist, tolerating no nonsense.
On 6 May 2005, President Fidel Castro reiterated that the island nation would not " be part of a disgraceful institution that has only humiliated the honor of Latin American nations ".
While references to the sexual exploitation of maidservants appear in literature, it was considered disgraceful for a man to keep such women under the same roof as his wife.
In his introduction to The Portable Cervantes, Samuel Putnam, a noted translator of Cervantes ' novel, calls Avellaneda's version " one of the most disgraceful performances in history ".
Terms of peace, including a voluntary abdication, were agreed upon with Titus Flavius Sabinus II, but the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard — the imperial bodyguard — considered such a resignation disgraceful, and prevented Vitellius from carrying out the treaty.
The Senatorial officers may have disapproved of Domitian's military strategies, such as his decision to fortify the German frontier rather than attack, as well as his recent retreat from Britain, and finally the disgraceful policy of appeasement towards Decebalus.
" He couldn't escape also because he was Berlin's Defence Commissioner and he considered it would be disgraceful for him to abandon his post ," Voss added.
They were considered by some ancients to be frequently polluted with disgraceful amours, which, according to Quintilian, were only a representation of the conduct of Afranius.
Flynn's tirade was itself attacked in response as " disgraceful " on live radio by Michael McDowell, a senior member of the Progressive Democrats, then in coalition with Fianna Fáil and up to that point supporting Lenihan's campaign.
Such conduct would be disgraceful.
Because Sergius III had reputedly ordered the murder of his two immediate predecessors, Leo V and Christopher and was the only pope to have allegedly fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope ( John XI ), his pontificate has been described as " dismal and disgraceful ".
In response, Benjamin ’ s longtime friend Gershom Scholem, wrote to the editor of Merkur to express his disapproval of the " in part, shameful, not to say disgraceful " remarks by Arendt.
It was considered a most shameful and disgraceful way to die.
The conductor of the 1951 production, Hans Knappertsbusch, on being asked how he could conduct such a disgraceful travesty, declared that right up until the dress rehearsal he imagined that the stage decorations were still to come.
It was therefore " disgraceful " for Britain to belong to such a body that engaged in " pure spite for spite's sake against the United Kingdom ": " We were, and are, the victims of our own insincerity.
The island presented a shocking state of anarchy ; miserable indeed, and disgraceful to government, not to be equaled in any other of His Majesty's dominions, or perhaps in any civilized country in the world.
* Philip the Arab declares himself co-emperor and makes a disgraceful peace with the Persians.
Mark Russell, Chief Executive of Church Army, expressed outrage over their resistance, stating " Quite honestly to condemn violence against gay people in their home countries is disgraceful, it sullies their cause, and is totally un-Christian.
However, Creasy has claimed: " The enduring importance of the battle of Tours in the eyes of the Moslems is attested not only by the expressions of ' the deadly battle ' and ' the disgraceful overthrow ' which their writers constantly employ when referring to it, but also by the fact that no more serious attempts at conquest beyond the Pyrenees were made by the Saracens.
During his reign he said use of the word nigger was " disgraceful " despite it then being in common parlance.
" To cure this disgraceful state of affairs, Blackstone called for sweeping reforms that would firmly set out the Delegates ' powers and obligations, officially record their deliberations and accounting, and put the print shop on an efficient footing.
He denounced the revised measure as a disgraceful product of " party perfidy and party dishonor ," but still allowed it to become law without his signature, believing that it was better than nothing and was at the least an improvement over the McKinley tariff.
The ancient Roman sources, particularly Tacitus and Suetonius, portray Messalina as extremely lustful, but also insulting, disgraceful, cruel, and avaricious ; they claimed her negative qualities were a result of her inbreeding.
youthful Heracles, to deliver Thebes from a disgraceful tribute.
When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said " it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns ," Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld.

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