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She dared to hope that an abject apology for breaking training, combined with Coach's pity and leniency, would put the matter to rest.

Thanks to years of spectacular growth, more people have been pulled from abject poverty in modern Asia than at any other time in history.

She thought he would make an abject fool of himself, and for her sake, as well as his, decided to prevent him from standing.

But in an old man who has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble .

Witnessing the original flower-like daughter become so abject, her mother was more than heartbroken.

The country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.

Mr. Bob Sawyer glanced at His friend with a look of abject apprehension and once more cried "Come in"

He seems to have conceived an abject, unreasoned terror of the railroad.

As well as alleviating abject poverty, the scheme is credited with helping to put a floor under domestic consumption.

Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is.

Even in her state of abject blackness, Charlotte was a dating optimist.

Moreover, it followed an abject apology squeezed out of America after a State Department spokesman had sniggered at Mr Qaddafi.

She was not aware that the English habits of comfort attach an idea of abject misery to the idea of a barefooted traveller .

And for Israel to gain nothing from its fight would be an abject humiliation.

Tell your master, Nelly , that I never, in my life met with such an abject thing as she is.

And then there are the reported terms of the deal, which amount to an abject surrender on the part of the president.

The landlady wanted to complain, but she was in abject terror of the captain.

Militarily, strategically, politically and diplomatically it has been an abject failure on its own terms.

and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble.

Generating the economic growth needed to lift people out of abject poverty means ushering corporations into putative paradise.

Of course, one of the great joys of the World Cup is watching the abject humiliation that almost inevitably results from this matchup.

Though the official number of those in abject poverty is small, many more are yet to rise above the difficult fight for subsistence.

And that the scheme was needed at all is a consequence of India's abject failure to create enough jobs.

But residents of Liangshan say abject poverty, drug abuse and a lack of jobs have forced many children to head for factories.

The China I first saw in 1975, steeped in abject poverty and chaos, was like a different plant compared to today's powerhouse nation.

Well, then is it not better to use what is in thy power like a free man than to desire in a slavish and abject way what is not in thy power?

She was very kind, but one day she was abetted by an abject abbot.

Still, following his trip he seemed much happier for having visited New York after living his life in such an abject wilderness.

Well, call me a cock-eyed optimist, but Copenhagen's failure strikes me as being too abject to ignore.

The abject condition of those bondage saw him abjure all fealty to his society.

Tom's company was bankrupt during the Great Depression; then, he was in abject poverty.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of a brave resistance or the most abject submission.

It drew apoplectic protests from Israel and much abject apologising from the British government.

He had been obliged to offer an abject apology to Mr. Alleyne for his impertinence .

The war's abject failure discredited pan-Arabism, allowing Arafat to bring the Palestinian cause itself to centre stage.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

She whimpers; she is permanently in discomfort if not abject pain, not only from her arthritis but from leg ulcers and bedsores.

They are strong and hardy, but of a cowardly spirit, and, by consequence, insolent, abject, and cruel.

Health care and social security have been made available. 1. 3 billion people have moved from abject poverty to a much improved livelihood.

When people are living in such abject poverty with no hope and no future, an oil spill almost certainly barely touches their awareness.

However, I described the prospects for soot are too tempting, never owning successor. Live their lives without fear of abject poverty.

This scheme was an abject failure.

I threw myself in to student life, suffering the hangovers , the late nights and the abject poverty along with my fellow freshmen.

She always thought that to demand the performance of others is the abject, she was never seeking men of.

He looked back at the abject, silent girl and repeated his question.

I longed to shut my eyes against these visions, but to my abject horror I could not.

the abject did not more because it was pushed.

Norm once said: 'I personally cannot live comfortably in the midst of abject hunger and poverty and human misery. '

In India, an economic boom has seen billionaires' mansions constructed near abject slums.

Part of the originality of "Milestones" was Qutb's use of the term jahiliyya to depict the abject condition of the Muslim world.

Xiang Qing, a 22-year-old recruiter for the Funilai undergarment factory, was looking wilted and abject under the shade of a plastic canopy.

This crisis shows the abject failure of the neoliberal capitalist model.

All the people in the city knew that he was an abject liar.

They are overwhelmed by both responsibility in industry management and also overwhelmed when they are raised in abject poverty.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or the most abject submission.

Overcoming oppression and abject poverty and terrible disease is hard.

Lest we forget, for all its manifest flaws, a liberal trading system has delivered hundred of millions of people from abject poverty.

Thanks to the abject failure of Europe's leaders since then, the similarities with 2008 are disturbingly real.

Even the offer of US dollars in the midst of abject poverty produced only shrugs, because there was simply no food to buy.

The Indignati do not find that a compelling reason to embrace a decade or so of abject misery.

Both countries still have hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty, especially in rural areas.

both, in the eyes of the public, were abject failures.

Industrialization began in the developing countries only a few decades ago and many of their people still live in abject poverty, he said.

I used to love to think that I was his abject slave .

As soon as a slaughter comes to life, no excuse can cover up their abject behaviors, even elegant.

The boy felt shamed of his abject poverty.

They were living in such abject poverty that they could not even afford the bare necessities.

What abject despair demands an end to all things of infinity?

The abject behaviors will surely be despised and condemned.

I almost threw up at his abject obedience to his boss.

and the abject poverty, crime and joblessness just outside.

Can it be more mean and abject? If there are any changes, will they not be for the better, though they may appear for the worse at first?

Even though 60% of its people continue to live in abject poverty, Tajikistan has experienced steady economic growth since 1997.

From the abject condition of being a naked savage, man has risen to command the earth.

rise , and don ' t degrade yourself into an abject reptile.

It is humiliating to expire. The supreme floating visions are abject.

the most abject slaves joined in the revolt; abject poverty.

abject Both of them died in abject poverty.

Whenever I think of man's abject poverty, his rot, his spreading gangrene, I am gripped by mortal despair.

Agathocles the Sicilian, who became King of Syracuse, was not only an ordinary citizen but also of the lowest and most abject condition.

But economic mismanagement and rampant corruption have kept the people in abject poverty.

More than half the country lived in abject poverty, many in muddy, disease-ridden shanty towns.

He was made abject by suffering.

Living in abject misery.

Abraham Lincoln was born into abject poverty 200 years ago.

Effectively, 80 percent of the world's progress in ending abject poverty has happened in China, independent of foreign aid.

He is poor But not abject in his manner.

Are you now impelled to experience that place of abject bounty, the storehouse of all your treasures?

I have spent the better part of the last year in abject misery.

but at some point they had to at least suggest the abject nature of the bestial desire

but at some point they had to at least suggest the abject nature of the bestial desire

"But, John, " he began. A look from Mustapha Mond reduced him to an abject silence

Dr. Pippin said that using animals to study human diseases is "an abject failure. "

in the old society he was finally reduced to a state of abject poverty

abject (of conditions) wretched; hopeless

Abject Terrors: Surveying The Modern And Postmodern Horror Film

All ought to refrain form marriage who cannot avoid abject poverty for their children;

He was now living in abject poverty

Supine implies abject lack of will, as that resulting from indifference: