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Only his barber knew of this disgraceful matter, but Midas had warned him that he would be put to death if ever he revealed to anyone the asinine state of the King's ears.

A second effect of this " most disgraceful event in Greek history ", as Will Durant characterized it, was the establishment of Sparta in a formalized position at the top of a Greek political system enforced by the Great King.

But the sons of Thestios, who considered it disgraceful that a woman should get the trophy where men were involved, took the skin from her, saying that it was properly theirs by right of birth, if Meleagros chose not to accept it.

At other times, they might drink weak, sweetened, or diluted wine in moderation but Roman traditionalists believed that in the more distant and virtuous past, this was forbidden, " for fear that they might lapse into some disgraceful act.

What disgraceful behaviour!

University of California Berkeley's Institute of Government Studies claimed that Davis ' fundraising skills were " second to none in the political arena " while Senator John McCain called Davis ' 2001 goal of $ 26 million " disgraceful.

I find it tragic, rather than disgraceful.

) If England could have sent an army, and although we all know how admirable that army is on the peace establishment, we must acknowledge that we have no means of sending out a force at all equal to cope with the 300, 000 or 400, 000 men whom the 30, 000, 000 or 40, 000, 000 of Germany could have pitted against us, and that such an attempt would only have insured a disgraceful discomfiture — not to the army, indeed, but to the Government which sent out an inferior force and expected it to cope successfully with a force so vastly superior.

*" mempersiasuikan "-disgraceful, derived from hokkien " siasui " + malay .( e. g. " Sungguh mempersiasuikan " or " Very mempersiasuikan " which means very disgraceful / humiliating / embarrassing )

Although it may be fair to say that Sosabowski was difficult to work with, his scapegoating is judged as disgraceful by many historical commentators.

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crisis were not regulated by Glass-Steagall or were available from commercial banks or their affiliates before the GLBA repealed Glass-Steagall sections 20 and 32.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.

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.

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.

In the Second World War, Great Britain granted conscientious-objection status not just to complete pacifists, but to those who objected to fighting in that particular war ; this was done partly out of genuine respect, but also to avoid the disgraceful and futile persecutions of conscientious objectors that occurred during the First World War.

At that point, it was considered disgraceful for a woman to wear a toga ; wearing the male garment was associated with prostitution and adultery.

With regard to the matter, Joan famously said, “ It is not considered ignominious, nor disgraceful for a great earl to take a poor and mean woman to wife ; neither, on the other hand, is it worthy of blame, or too difficult a thing for a countess to promote to honor a gallant youth .” Joan's statement in addition to a possibly obvious pregnancy seemed to soften Edward ’ s attitude towards the situation.

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.

On 7 September 1989, Lauder-Frost, on behalf of the Club, denounced " the disgraceful Anglo-Irish Agreement " in The Sun.

The Parisian public was divided into two rival parties, which, under the names of Gluckists and Piccinnists, carried on an unworthy and disgraceful war.

He made no attempt to conceal or apologize for the sexuality, theatrical violence, and ill-concealed paganism of many ballads, but it is characteristic of the man that in his introduction to “ Hugh of Lincoln ,” an ancient work about the purported murder of a Christian child by a Jew, he wrote, “ And these pretended child-murders, with their horrible consequences, are only a part of the persecution which, with all moderation, may be rubricated as the most disgraceful chapter in the history of the human race .”

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.

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.

Conservative business spokesman Kenneth Clarke said it was right the report criticised the Phoenix Four, whose behaviour was " disgraceful ".

That European outpost, Australia, which began its existence as a penal colony, had a much more flexible view of cohabitation and sexual bonding than was known in Europe itself at the time, " Neither the male nor the female convicts thought it was disgraceful, or even wrong, to live together out of wedlock.

) The incantations, however, which are usually sung in the performance of a libation of this kind are numerous and disgraceful, and it is better not to speak of them.