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".
Does that mean they deserve to live in abject poverty while slaving away day after day?
But this is putting a brave face on what everyone knows was an abject failure.
Yes, America's Mideast policy is an abject failure, but not for the reason that you articulate.
Two of the most abject victims of wikinomics are the newspaper and music industries.
The military enjoys countless benefits in a country where half the population suffers from abject poverty.
The irony is that Angola, where 70% of the people live in abject poverty, is rich.
The chances of another go at liberalisation soon, after an abject failure, would be slim.
In that time, more than 600 million people have been lifted out of abject poverty.
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.
Both countries still have hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty, especially in rural areas.
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 war's abject failure discredited pan-Arabism, allowing Arafat to bring the Palestinian cause itself to centre stage.
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 country, a declining communist industrial power when he took control, fell into abject poverty under his rule.
The main call of bogus revolves around non-compliance among passengers and abject failure of enforcement in the plane.
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Her powers had to be exaggerated because for one man's political purposes she needed to have reduced another to abject slavery.
"The NC-17 rating that currently exists has been an abject failure, " he said.
For Standard Chartered PLC Chairman John Peace, Thursday began with an abject apology.
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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.
How he could allow the abject humiliation of the United States of America.
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.
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