But his glitzy projects were ultra-expensive, and when Wall Street punished his stock, he ignominiously sold out to Kirk Kerkorian in 2000.
In the ensuing online conversation, Mr von Matt's campaign was ignominiously deflated.
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He placed my chapter ignominiously on the carpet beneath his chair.
In later years, the swagger subsides, and he is finally, and ignominiously, hustled out of Khartoum by the French to stand trial for those earlier murders.
He is seen as a hawkish, right-of-centre leader whose previous term in office ended ignominiously amid falling popularity and a resignation on grounds of ill health.
Each closed ignominiously within a few months of opening.
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Navistar claims that Deloitte, their auditor for nearly one hundred happy years until they were ignominiously fired in early 2006, lied, deceived, was utterly incompetent, and left a trail of broken promises.
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To bring the book up to date, there is an epilogue on Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund peopled by Wall Street wizards and Nobel prize-winning economists, which collapsed ignominiously last year.
Our military planners must never forget the lessons of Singapore in World War II, when the then British colony ignominiously fell to Imperial Japan in what Winston Churchill described as Britain's greatest military defeat.
Marc was there at the start and helped launch a browser that was an important product but it never made money and was later ignominiously sold to AOL (AOL) and was last seen a decade ago.
As William led his men ashore in southeast England on their way to what was to become the historic Battle of Hastings, legend has it that this man-who-would-be-king rather ignominiously stumbled and fell face-first into the mud.
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