Europe believed, somehow, that sanctions and the opprobrium of the international community would sway Col Gaddafi.
Its fans perversely enjoy the opprobrium it still attracts, as well as its deeply cryptic side.
Despite mounting opprobrium and stiff international sanctions, Syria is trapped in a grisly stalemate.
Islamic garb enabled women to work alongside men without attracting opprobrium from strict male relatives.
Against this, it could have been much worse, especially given the opprobrium that now dogs Wall Street.
For the service he has performed in pursuit of this larger end, FOIA deserves not opprobrium but gratitude.
Then, as social opprobrium is displaced by acceptance followed by imitation, unproductive dependence becomes a way of life.
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Yet some of the opprobrium heaped on his government's immigration policy is misguided.
There is, of course, one other thing that has been bugging me for years about the opprobrium heaped upon WalMart.
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Also, any adverse consequences would not affect Halliburton because it was not a retail company and subject to public opprobrium.
It was always going to be a stretch for Mr Fujimori to govern Peru for another five years amid international opprobrium.
But much of the opprobrium hedge funds face is based on ignorance.
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With their organizations under threat of higher taxation as well as public opprobrium, other shareholders ought to be more exercised over the remuneration issue.
He already has a Jolly Roger brand, which he savors, and he may not believe that the opprobrium of British regulators can possibly threaten that brand.
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The Sun will become a seven-day operation and will expect to pick up the journalism, the readers and the advertisers of its defunct stablemate without the opprobrium.
The opprobrium heaped on ratings firms is only partly deserved.
Even in Shanghai, where smoking incurs none of the opprobrium that it does in New York, tobacco advertising has been banned along the waterfront Bund, the city's equivalent of Times Square.
So is there any reason to feel sympathy for Barclays, following the tidal wave of opprobrium that has hit it, after its admission that it tried to rig important interest rates?
So my basic assumption is that Mr. Fletcher advocates tariffs because that is what he is paid to advocate: no opprobrium attaches here for I too have worked as a press officer.
If Crowley ever had any concerns that her coloring outside the lines would be met with opprobrium, the candidates eased her mind when they, too, refused from the get-go to play by the rules.
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The paradoxical message of William Cohan's compelling history of the world's most envied and recently at least most pilloried securities firm is that much of what Goldman does seems to warrant admiration and opprobrium in equal measure.
The opprobrium heaped upon a mediator can be a good barometer of the pressure he is applying to one or both sides in a conflict, or of the parties' readiness to budge from long-entrenched positions.
This blaze of Egyptian accusations underlines the frustration felt by the government of President Hosni Mubarak, which has borne withering opprobrium due to its refusal to open crossings into Gaza to relieve the besieged Palestinian territory.
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He has appeal as well as opprobrium.
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The demolition of the Third Avenue Elevated subway line set off a building boom and a white-collar influx, most notably of young educated women who suddenly found themselves free of family, opprobrium, and, thanks to birth control, the problem of sexual consequence.
The fashion for faceless chief executives is part of an understandable reaction against yesterday's imperial bosses, many of whom were vivid characters, capable of holding their own in a cocktail party with Tony Blair, but who collectively brought opprobrium on the system that let them shine.
Only by compromising on the form of the Fed - it was created as an alliance of formally autonomous regional central banks - could its supporters get the new law through congress - and so the Fed was born amid much of the same opprobrium Mr Paul and his supporters now heap on it.
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