disgraceful

Such conduct would be disgraceful.

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 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.

Thus, the Bishop of Havelberg commanded his clergy, in 1471, to suppress the Passion Plays and legend plays in their parish districts because of the disgraceful and irrelevant farces interspersed through the productions.

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 ".

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.

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.

It also found that one of Lowry's interventions, which cut the selection process to the advantage of Esat, was ' disgraceful ' and ' insidious ', and that he had misled the Government, his party leader John Bruton and his own civil servants to influence the selection process in Esat's favour.

Lentin said Tiernan's comments at the Electric Picnic festival in County Laois were " disgraceful ", and “ extraordinarily racist.

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.

It was considered a most shameful and disgraceful way to die.

And because we have heard it said that in some places Jews celebrated, and still celebrate Good Friday, which commemorates the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by way of contempt: stealing children and fastening them to crosses, and making images of wax and crucifying them, when they cannot obtain children ; we order that, hereafter, if in any part of our dominions anything like this is done, and can be proved, all persons who were present when the act was committed shall be seized, arrested and brought before the king ; and after the king ascertains that they are guilty, he shall cause them to be put to death in a disgraceful manner, no matter how many there may be.

Drummond told Prevost that the defeat was entirely due to the disgraceful conduct of his men.

Vernon Royle, a member of the English team, wrote in his diary that " It was a most disgraceful affair and took its origin from some of the ' better ' class in the Pavilion ".

When highlights from the match were shown on British television a couple of days later ( not the same night, because film of matches still had to be flown back ), the match was famously introduced by David Coleman as " the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football, possibly in the history of the game.

Tertullian further criticizes their literature, practices and ceremonies, calling them absurd and criticizing their philosophers ’ disgraceful actions.

Pausanias claims that Elis and Boeotia are inarticulate regions that have nothing to say against homosexual customs ( 182a-b ); Ionia and other regions think it is disgraceful ( 182b-c ), but they live under despots and think no more of philosophy and sport than they do of love.

Lawrence White and Jerry Markham rejected these claims and argued that products linked to the financial crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32. Alan Blinder wrote in 2009 that he had “ yet to hear a good answer ” to the question “ what bad practices would have been prevented if Glass-Steagall was still on the books ?” Blinder argued that “ disgraceful ” mortgage underwriting standards “ did not rely on any new GLB powers ,” that “ free-standing investment banks ” not the “ banking-securities conglomerates ” permitted by the GLBA were the major producers of “ dodgy MBS ,” and that he could not “ see how this crisis would have been any milder if GLB had never passed .” Similarly, Melanie Fein has written that the financial crisis “ was not a result of the GLBA ” and that the “ GLBA did not authorize any securities activities that were the cause of the financial crisis .” Fein noted “ ecuritization was not an activity authorized by the GLBA but instead had been held by the courts in 1990 to be part of the business of banking rather than an activity proscribed by the Glass-Steagall Act .” As described above, in 1978 the OCC approved a national bank securitizing residential mortgages.

In the view of the latter nothing is disgraceful that makes for gain ; with the former nothing is more disgraceful than to receive bribes and to make profit by improper means.

" 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.

Child sums up the whole matter by saying, " These pretended child-murders, with their horrible consequences, are only a part of a persecution which, with all its moderation, may be rubricated as the most disgraceful chapter in the history of the human race.

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.

" and " The public attitude of NIF in relation to CWP is a rather disgraceful example of following and accepting the right-wing discourse and its strategies.

Due to Ma Chao's disgraceful past, Zhang Lu became suspicious of Ma's loyalty to him, and he sent Yang Bai to watch over Ma.

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.