Europe believed, somehow, that sanctions and the opprobrium of the international community would sway Col Gaddafi.
So the military is carrying the load for now, only to catch the opprobrium of Congress.
Only now is the international opprobrium heaped upon the Chinese getting through to them.
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.
Facing a divided country and international opprobrium, he was never going to find governing easy.
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.
Myanmar's own economy is suffering, and its junta treats people badly, so forced repatriation may reap international opprobrium.
Then, as social opprobrium is displaced by acceptance followed by imitation, unproductive dependence becomes a way of life.
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Others think the prime minister is pushing him forward to take the opprobrium.
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.
Hamas's survival, despite Israeli attacks and global opprobrium for its resort to terrorist tactics, testifies to the Ikhwan's deep roots.
Mr Bush would rightly point out that anti-Americanism is to blame for some of the opprobrium heaped on his country.
It was always going to be a stretch for Mr Fujimori to govern Peru for another five years amid international opprobrium.
But Argentina's government deserves most of the opprobrium for its thuggish behavior.
The first invasion caused it huge problems, international opprobrium and vast expense.
But much of the opprobrium hedge funds face is based on ignorance.
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All had close ties to Syria, whose troops bolstered and bullied successive Lebanese governments until international opprobrium forced their withdrawal earlier this year.
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.
On January 22nd Taiwan apparently trying to reinforce international opprobrium directed at its rival said China had deployed some 900 missiles on the coast facing the island in recent years.
The opprobrium heaped on ratings firms is only partly deserved.
Because of that reputation, he often attracts the opprobrium of those in Washington who view Russia mainly as an unreformed miscreant that should be kept firmly in its cage.
They tell us that if this passes, Israel will face international opprobrium if its citizens or military personnel so much as breathe in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem without Palestinian permission.
International opprobrium forced Syria to pull out its troops and undermined the patronage network created by Mr Kanaan, such that the Lebanese elections this summer produced a determinedly anti-Syrian government.
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