Consider a couple of notorious examples.

Perhaps (in his disgrace) he did not know.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

We need to develop joint efforts to extirpate those shameful phenomena.

By using history as a mirror, we can reflect on shameful acts of the past in order to draw strength for the future.

With that vote, the international community began to eradicate the shameful indifference that accompanied the Holocaust, Rwanda, Srebrenica, Darfur, and too many similar catastrophes.

The position fell vacant after senior officials, many of them Gabonese, were discredited in an embezzlement scandal that erupted in October 2009.

The result of this campaign resulted in Han China resorting to the humiliating marriage alliance strategy with the Xiongnu for the next seventy years.

The public s lack of confidence in the EU s political leadership is totally justified.

The G 8 Summit in Japan earlier this month was a painful demonstration of the pitiful state of global cooperation.

Yet this is likely to have little or no effect on Sharon's intention to carry through with the plan.

To ensure that this memory will serve its purpose both to remind and to teach we must not be afraid to open our eyes to that inglorious period of human history.

Although Hamas has said that it would seek such a coalition, Fatah s humiliating defeat has left it with little credibility as a governing partner.

Politicians, functionaries, army officials usually coming from the right introduced into Israeli political life the disgraceful norms in force in the occupied territories.

If similarly shameful disclosures multiply, as I believe they will, let us at least hope that official apologies and condemnations may finally give way to wider, more genuine accountability and reform.

Finally, during the Nixon years, the president s paranoia about opposition to the Vietnam War and to his policies fuelled a pattern of abuses that eventually brought about his resignation in disgrace.

Second, even if the West condemns Georgia s irresponsibility and incorporates into its policy Russia s sensitivities on the complex historical feelings related to its ex imperial territories, the Kremlin s shameless brutality is unacceptable.

PRINCETON Balzac s great novel Lost Illusions ends with an exposition of the difference between official history, which is all lies, and secret history that is, the real story. It used to be possible to obscure history s scandalous truths for a long time even forever.

This week, the international community will have a chance to do something about this scandalous state of affairs. Policymakers from around the world will meet in South Korea at the World Education Forum to agree on the global education targets that are set to replace the MDGs.