(1) A bit like the old Lib Dems, perhaps: and indeed the Greens owe a big chunk of their surge to the exodus of voters from Clegg’s discredited rump.
(2) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
(3) He used the pre-recorded speech to deny accusations of embezzlement, saying: "They aim to tarnish my reputation and discredit my integrity, my stance, my political and military history during which I worked hard for Egypt and its people in peace and war."
(4) Moreover, genetics textbooks consistently employ confused or misleading definitions of the concept of heritability that, together with the reporting of discredited data, perpetuate a fundamentally inaccurate understanding of the genetics of intelligence.
(5) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
(6) And while neoliberalism had been discredited, western governments used the crisis to try to entrench it.
(7) Double-label immunoelectron microscopy was used to demonstrate directly the co-existence of ICL and SGAT within individual microbodies, thereby discrediting the two-population hypothesis.
(8) Rubio was asked during the debate how he would handle the nation’s finances if he couldn’t handle his own, to which the senator similarly defended himself against what he said were “discredited” attacks.
(9) However, many fear that candidates are focusing on fraud in an unscrupulous attempt to set the ground for complaints if they lose, and risk discouraging voters and discrediting the entire election process along the way.
(10) Preventive intestinal intubation for ileus prophylaxis in cases of diffuse peritonitis and extended adhesion ileus had often been discredited for the technically demanding and thus time-consuming technique involved.
(11) Although it is still early days, some have suggested that, if successful, the model could act as an alternative to prosecutions by the International Criminal Court, which has become discredited in the eyes of many Africans.
(12) In a statement to the Guardian this week, Exxon spokesman Richard Keil reiterated: “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial.” Alec, an ultra-conservative lobby group, has hosted seminars promoting the long-discredited idea that rising carbon dioxide emissions are the “elixir of life”, and was behind legislation banning state planners in North Carolina from considering future sea-level rise.
(13) Half a dozen times now they have produced elaborate redesigns of the old, discredited Press Complaints Commission , each subtly different but none delivering the simple, effective, independent redress that Leveson said was necessary.
(14) Caro Gonzales, a 26-year-old member of the Chemehuevi tribe and an anti-police violence activist in Washington state, said the language from law enforcement officials resembled that used to discredit unarmed black men killed by police.
(15) He deflected the question as an example of an attack which he said was “ discredited ”.
(16) Though the evidence that austerity is not working continues to mount, Germany and the other hawks have doubled down on it, betting Europe’s future on a long-discredited theory.
(17) Every effort was made to discredit those who rejected the case for invasion and occupation – and would before long be comprehensively vindicated.
(18) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
(19) It also offers advice on how to talk to your employer, as it’s common for abusers to bombard a target’s workplace with false accusations, hoax phone calls and other tactics designed to discredit them.
(20) Surgeons working with laser beam may discredit the method by putting the indication not rigorusly enough.
Ignominious
Definition:
(a.) Marked with ignominy; in curring public disgrace; dishonorable; shameful.
(a.) Deserving ignominy; despicable.
(a.) Humiliating; degrading; as, an ignominious judgment or sentence.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, internal divisions arose within the army, and by July 1985 Obote was once again on the ignominious road to exile, first to Kenya, and then to Zambia, where fellow independence leader Kenneth Kaunda allowed him to stay.
(2) Ignominy On the radio, he spoke of his intention "to resist by all means, at the cost of my life: to leave to the ignominy of history the lesson of those who have force but not reason."
(3) Tesco's ignominious exit from the US will grab all the headlines but the truth is that even without the Fresh & Easy debacle the supermarket would probably still have seen its profits fall for the first time in 20 years.
(4) Anglo Irish Bank, which was the preferred lender for property speculators and builders, epitomised the rise and ignominious fall of the Celtic Tiger economy.
(5) I see the possibility of terminal, and potentially ignominious decline."
(6) The conservative New Democracy party – the dominant force in a coalition lead by the outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras – suffered ignominious defeat, collapsing to 76 seats in the 300-seat parliament.
(7) For months, Nick Clegg has been itching to take aim at what he regards as the Conservatives' dangerous approach to the EU, which could set Britain on the path to an ignominious exit.
(8) Instead they lost 2-1 to tiny Iceland , in another ignominious exit from Europe.
(9) This time, he has a place.” ’88, ’08 and right now Biden’s first presidential run, in 1988, ended ignominiously.
(10) Yet this ignominious retreat became enshrined as a glorious victory; the guts of survivors made it a founding myth.
(11) He now joins an ignominious list of individuals stripped of their honours, including Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, and Anthony Blunt, who spied for Russia.
(12) Friday’s dramatic judgement brings an abrupt and ignominious end to Park’s four years in office – the most dramatic development yet in a scandal that has gripped and horrified South Koreans in equal measure.
(13) The strange thing, perhaps, is that Roy Hodgson spent the day in Paris but chose not to make a personal check on the team who will be trying to inflict ignominy upon England in Nice on Monday.
(14) What can we infer from Lidl's foray into everyday British life – that something once a source of ignominy has become normalised?
(15) With one ignominious intervention, the window has now been moved, and various anti-Muslim bigots can say: “Well Donald Trump has gone too far, but here’s what I would say instead.” They suddenly become the more moderate alternatives where once they would have been seen as themselves extreme.
(16) Which is basically what I'd have been doing if I wasn't in the show... Also, I think most people have experienced the agony and the ignominy of unrequited love...
(17) But some commentators have made comparisons with the ignominious departure of Angus Deayton, longtime chair of the topical quiz Have I Got News For You .
(18) Much of the capital of Anbar province, the scene of an ignominious defeat of the Iraqi military by Islamic State in May and now largely won back after a gruelling offensive backed by 600 US-led coalition airstrikes, is in ruins.
(19) The Sounders choked on the run-in and despite Clint Dempsey finally scoring in the last game of the regular season, it wasn’t enough to overhaul LA for third place in the West, and avoid the ignominy of the wild card game.
(20) The wonderful Scottish writer John Burnside, in his book I Put a Spell on You , makes an apt comment that the hit song "Don't leave me this way" is a pathetically ignominious response to a departing lover.