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During this performance, the hermit demeaned himself much like a first-rate critic of the present day at a new opera.

Osborne withdrew his account from Bullock and Hulker's, went on 'Change with a horsewhip which he swore he would lay across the back of a certain scoundrel that should be nameless, and demeaned himself in his usual violent manner.

Pemra said it had received complaints about such contents as public sentiments are hurt when the country's leadership is demeaned.

"When the inactivity of the DC was exposed by cartoonist Bala, it provoked them and he filed a case that the cartoon demeaned himself," Mani said.

A GAY couple's marriage has been "demeaned, devalued and undermined" by having no legal recognition in Northern Ireland, the High Court heard yesterday.

humiliation again, the racial segregation of the buses still demeaned

But they soon began calling her "Miss" - which made her feel "demeaned".

The tax authorities can see at a glance who the wealthy are amongst us and there would be no need to demean anybody, that is unless the wealthy considered themselves demeaned by having to pay a bit of tax to help run the country.

A player, who wished to remain unnamed, claimed the camp was 'demeaned' by the absence of captain Keane and other stars.

In this book, without hiding names, Neuhaus shows what he thinks of some changes in the Church which were fostered following the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965: church music changing from Gregorian Chant into less worthy forms of praise; the language of the Mass being demeaned into "banality and sentimentality" in the English vernacular; the neglect of the Sacrament of Confession; the unheard-of practice of everyone at Mass receiving Holy Communion even though many communicants do not know or accept St.