The Humiliation of Britain

You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.

They constitute an affront to the poor, who thereby become further impoverished.

You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride.

She tells him the story, thinking he wants to humiliate her first.

So it's very dramatic humiliation for Prussia at the end of the Treaty of Tilsit.

During the Cuban missile crisis, he did not try to humiliate or win a total victory over the Soviet Union.

But, if China were to bring the US to it knees, it might bring itself to its ankles in the process.

This is the vengeful side of our fawning, as though the humiliation of worshipping idols must be balanced by our delight in their downfall.

And, while males inflicted torture, degradation in the presence of women enhanced the humiliation.

They wrote that Russia's enemies were bent on humiliating the powerless Russian people, their objects of worship, and their historic values.

He was careful not to humiliate Gorbachev, and to manage the transition to Boris Yeltsin s presidency in a newly independent Russia.

For the family fortunes were squandered upon the vain and selfish stepsisters, while Cinderella was abused, humiliated, and finally forced to become a servant in her own house.

The warring parties habitually use the rape of women as a weapon of war, so as to humiliate and terrorize the population.

Having already been humiliated by China, such an apology would be politically suicidal for the Japanese government.

To some observers, this represents a fundamental shift in the global balance of power, because China could bring the US to its knees by threatening to sell its dollars.

For future neo conservatives, however, the 1960 s produced a trauma that transcended the humiliation of a lost war and the disgrace of Richard Nixon.

By humiliating, degrading, and outlawing any Islamic tendency that disagreed with the prevailing dogma, authoritarian regimes did not eliminate pluralism, but merely sent it underground.

Last year he was wanted for murder. Now he wants recognition as a statesman, money, and, at least implicitly, Sistani s and the SCIRI s humiliation.

But Bush had made a deliberate choice not to humiliate the Soviets or gloat I won t beat on my chest and dance on the wall, was his response a model of emotional intelligence in a leader.

The longer Israel, cheered on by the wrong European friends, continues to humiliate the Palestinians and occupy their lands, the more likely it will be that hatred and violence will stand in the way of compromise, without which there can be no peace.

And it is why bullying Japan is always a good option China s rulers do not necessarily hate Japan, but they are afraid to look weak in the eyes of their citizens, who are taught from kindergarten that foreign powers want to humiliate China.

Thus, when Greece went to war in the Greco Turkish War in 1897, the Hellenic Navy established its dominance in the Aegean Sea, however, it was unable to change the outcome of the war on land, which was a national humiliation.

In Indian culture, the gold possessed by a household s women has often been seen as a guarantee of the family s honor surrendering the nation s gold to foreigners was a national humiliation that the old protectionism could not survive.

Restricting movement of goods and persons exacerbates the humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territory by deepening unemployment and poverty, preventing health care, interrupting education and generally humiliating the Palestinian people individually and collectively.

But military operations that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or humiliation on a helpless individual even if he or she is an enemy is not the aim.

Zhao s allies are not out to humiliate China. Rather, like those around the world who believe China deserves credit for its impressive achievements indeed, like Liu Xiaobo himself they want their country to develop governing institutions befitting its growing economic stature.

And nationalism in China, promoted through schools, mass media, and patriotic monuments and museums, means one thing only the firm rule of the CCP will prevent foreigners, especially Westerners and the Japanese, from humiliating Chinese ever again.