It might have added some glitz to the occasion, but led to accusations that it discredited it as a serious event.
The controversy allowed Thai nationalists to reheat old, discredited arguments as to why the temple rightfully belongs to Thailand (not so, ruled the International Court of Justice in 1962).
"Performance-related pay is increasingly discredited elsewhere as a means of motivating employees and there has never been any evidence that it motivates teachers or improves their performance, " said NUT general secretary, Christine Blower.
Michael Gove is about to perform a screeching U-turn on his plan to scrap GCSEs - an exam he has repeatedly described as discredited and lacking credibility with employers.
Tax defiers--or "tax protesters" as they've traditionally been known--glom onto one kooky, discredited theory or another as to why the income tax is illegal or doesn't apply to them personally or doesn't cover their normal sources of income. (Example: Only foreign income, or only earnings of federal employees are taxable.) They typically file returns showing zero income or simply stop filing.
This theory has been thoroughly investigated over the past 10 years, and just as thoroughly discredited.
The government has dismissed Mr Aponte as a discredited turncoat offering no proof.
On those scores it is not different from discredited autism therapies such as chelation, listening to Mozart, gluten-free diets and swimming with dolphins.
In the Anglo-Saxon world Lamarck's name, if it is known at all, is associated with a theory long since discredited - the idea known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics - the idea that traits or attributes acquired or learned in the space of your life time will somehow be inherited by your children at birth.
He was stung by criticism of France's ties to discredited regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, as well as his hosting of Colonel Qaddafi (plus tent) for a week in Paris in 2007.
Hearst's second unintended achievement, so Mr Nasaw persuasively argues, is to have discredited, by his excesses, propaganda parading as journalism.
With the revelation of the spreadsheet errors, some supporters of big government were giddily proclaiming victory as if they had not already been discredited before Reinhart and Rogoff entered the scene.
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Despite being dismissed by many as a leftover from predecessor Suharto's discredited New Order regime, Habibie endured opposition - even from within his own party - and put up a stubborn fight to remain a key political contender.
In one last attempt to find her, he hires Blomkvist, who has been temporarily discredited in a libel suit, and sets him up as an investigator on the island, a place that no American one-per-cent family would ever dream of owning.
Yet Blackwell has had to try to escape the stigma of his party, as his opponent unfairly but effectively ties him to the discredited Governor Taft.
Dr Stoate says he had been advised he could still claim but decided to stop doing so, and repay the money from this year, as a gesture, saying the whole allowance was "completely discredited".
Just as important, Naidu gave all South Asians hope that even a thoroughly discredited political establishment can, on occasion, produce leaders with vision and vigor.
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As for the sack of the Alexandrian library, that, says Mr Kennedy, is a discredited myth.
However, Sinn Fein has condemned the decision as being "grossly offensive to the many people who have suffered at the hands of this discredited force".
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the central bank which regulates banking as well as setting interest rates, made clear its view that India's approach was superior to the discredited Western models that it had long been told to adopt.
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In early June, baseball's Houston Astros announced a deal with Coca-Cola (nyse: KO - news - people ) that wiped the discredited Enron (otc: ENRNQ - news - people ) label from the facility now known as Minute Maid Park.
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