Japan s meritocratically selected bureaucracy, too, faces much the same public opprobrium.

Sometimes there was some form of social opprobrium to those not participating.

Making that happen requires someone willing to face opprobrium, jail, and a life of surveillance.

Overseas, China s role in places like Sudan and Burma not only draws international opprobrium, but also taints its reputation.

Japan s meritocratically selected bureaucracy, too, faces much the same public opprobrium. Indeed, the bureaucracy itself is often blamed for the country s rigidity and ongoing stagnation.

In the US, at least, breaching sexual norms still brings with it a moral opprobrium that is unrelated to any real harm it may do.

Today s China is the leading bearer of the mercantilist torch, though Chinese leaders would never admit it too much opprobrium still attaches to the term.

David Stevenson, Professor of International History at the London School of Economics, describes him as earning opprobrium as one of the most callous and incompetent of First World War commanders.

LONDON A year ago, tiny Georgia tried to regain control over its breakaway enclave of South Ossetia. The Russians quickly expelled the Georgian army, to almost universal opprobrium from the West.

Making that happen requires someone willing to face opprobrium, jail, and a life of surveillance. I wish Julian Assange were a better person, but better people are not rising to the challenge.

The horrendous spectacle of the corpse of a United Nations peace keeper being dragged like a garbage bag on the streets of Mogadishu deserves all the opprobrium civilized humanity can heap on such a callous act of inhumanity.

Its new doctrine of brutal response when attacked from lands from which it has withdrawn as happened in Lebanon and Gaza might be reprehensible, and it may even doom the country to international opprobrium. But genocide it is not.

The latest agreement did halt, or at least interrupt, the eurozone s biggest crisis to date, culminating in an unprecedented period of antipathy, opprobrium, humiliation, pestering, and blackmail within Europe. Indeed, Greece came within a hair s breadth of leaving the eurozone.

The moneylender is happy to lend for any purpose, including non productive expenditures like weddings and dowries, whereas a PMFI, if it is to succeed, can finance only income generating, economically sustainable activities. But PMFIs seeking to attract private equity capital emphasized growth over sustainability, lent indiscriminately to people who couldn t pay them back and attracted public opprobrium in the process.