But less than two years later, he was a helpless witness to abject misery when Australia triumphed 5-0.
Benefits, he says, are a "safety net to stop people falling into abject poverty".
Two of the most abject victims of wikinomics are the newspaper and music industries.
The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.
All these conditions left the expelled in a state of abject penury after weeks of suffering.
Man oh man, is there anything more abject than the sound of a TV executive being disingenuous?
By stating they are an addict they clearly communicate the abject suffering and out-of-controlness of the experience.
Don Cowie also blazed into the stands as the hosts made light of their abject recent form.
Joe Rukin, of the Stop HS2 campaign group, said the new rail line would cause "abject misery".
The woman prays in submission to Allah all the while noting her abject suffering in his name.
If self regulation is, in fact, a workable model, then why has it been such an abject failure?
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The main call of bogus revolves around non-compliance among passengers and abject failure of enforcement in the plane.
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"The NC-17 rating that currently exists has been an abject failure, " he said.
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This turn of events is the logical flipside of Parliament's abject refusal to amend Britain's outrageous universal jurisdiction law.
Their conditions are abject: crowded, short of drinking water and with poor sanitation.
Thirty years of conflict had decimated infrastructure, created chronic security risks, encouraged corruption, and left most Afghans in abject poverty.
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While technology continues to improve the standard of living for millions, there are still millions more living in abject poverty.
Turkmenistan has the fifth-largest deposits of natural gas in the world but most of its population live in abject poverty.
Singling out the Football Association (FA), he accused it of an abject failure to do enough to tackle the issue.
Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization.
One of four children, she was born, her biographer David Weaver tells us, in abject poverty in a small town in Mississippi.
By the end of the meal, I realized I had transformed abject fear into unmitigated glee, not to mention several full bellies.
With abject competitive fury, he was not above imitating the grand dragon of the Venice art world, Titian, and his designated successor, Veronese.
The formal and informal channels by which migrant workers remit cash back to families and friends are directly lifting millions from abject conditions.
She praised the work of Mr Clegg and Mrs Spelman, as part of the European delegation, to prevent the summit reaching "abject failure".
What I found more surprising than the NASCAR stats, though, was the abject shock from my green friends when I shared the information.
Eighty percent of the 8.7 million Haitians live in poverty and 54 percent live in abject poverty, according to the CIA's World Factbook.
But the senator has not forgotten his abject childhood in Pittsburgh (so poor that his father built the family home from used lumber).
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