How To Use Damning In A Sentence
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A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
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One in 10 asthma deaths in Scotland is due to inadequate treatment and widespread ignorance of the condition among health staff, a damning new report has revealed.
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The two men were convicted on some extremely damning evidence.
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His lifestyle was too threatening, his irresponsibility too damning to make him sympathetic.
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To call a person a liar, is, to my mind, the most serious and damning thing that a person can do.
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Did the jury feel that some of the most damning evidence against Scott Peterson was his own erratic behavior, such as dyeing his hair, growing a beard, preparing to leave the country?
CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2004
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The final damning evidence of my foreignness was my grandmother herself, when she appeared in school on those days set aside for parents to visit classes.
Borrowed Finery, A Memoir
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The second look, "Logan's look," also demonstrates a "recessionista" trick -- how to make a blouse out of the confidential and potentially damning documents your boss asked you to shred during the Wall Street melee.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 7 Recap: Kind of Blue
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In an article dedicated to several "finds" in the "Secret heart of the Vatican" Nel cuore segreto del Vaticano, Panorama, n. 3/2009, p. 130-134, the newsweekly's reporters found the damning evidence that...
Archive 2009-01-01
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Potentially damning physical or forensic evidence is scant in the Peters case.
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How can they put such a damning construction on a perfectly innocent phrase?
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Everyone is afraid that you'll write something damning about them for all to see.
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The Office of Inspector General -- which in May issued a damning report about the appalling lack of enforcement of inhumane large-scale commercial dog breeding operations -- found that the present government program for inspecting horses for soring "is not adequate to ensure that these animals are not being abused.
Wayne Pacelle: Federal Audit Finds Rampant Abuses of Show Horses; Agency Reform Promised
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Their six months of filming was distilled into a one hour programme trailed as ‘a damning catalogue of inefficiency, neglect and substandard treatment.’
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Instead of a damning critique he offers redemption through the invocation of a moral imperative.
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It's a fascinating portrait of a so-called serial killer, and a damning one of the society in which she lived.
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That this portrayal is a damning one suggests either that Aue is (consciously or subconsciously) submitting himself for judgment or that his particular involvement in the Final Solution is to be taken at facevalue.
Translated Texts
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Finally, and most damningly, the game is dull.
Times, Sunday Times
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More damning evidence came from the small survivor, Harry Symmonds.
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Lacking the clout to lower quotas, afraid of appearing anti-industry, and—most remarkably and damningly—so attached to whaling as a source of research data that they could not bear to see it disappear, the scientists of the International Whaling Commission were "sucked into the belly of the beast," Mr. Burnett concludes.
The Cetacean Century
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Hers is a damning indictment of Executive policy and she makes a strong case.
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So I noticed," Dundee nodded, recalling the deathly pallor of the girl's face as Sprague had glibly explained away that damning note and all its implications.
Murder at Bridge
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Gwen always said `Eileen doesn't trouble tuppence ," but she said it damningly, shaking her head.
LOST CHILDREN
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The Electoral Reform Society has produced a damning analysis of the anti-democratic nature of the 2005 general election.
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The report on the operation of the Communications Centres Service Centre is very damning.
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The scandal is damning evidence of the government's contempt for democracy.
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I happy — & I never see the leer of vice upon a beautiful face without feeling the heart ache pitying human nature & damning society. you will wonder at this kind of rhapsody from me perhaps, but you will perhaps agree with me in wishing society better. why is the door to
Letter 67
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We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation.
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How can they put such a damning construction on a perfectly innocent phrase?
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My third and most damning criticism of expanding numbers in further education is an economic one.
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For some, no amount of damning evidence will sway them from their allegiance.
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Cruel doorstep cheats who prey on elderly people claim the number one spot on a damning ‘top five’ list of the worst swindlers, conmen and thieves.
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But according to plaintiffs' attorneys, the privilege log could be invaluable in helping them pry loose potentially damning documents.
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But according to plaintiffs' attorneys, the privilege log could be invaluable in helping them pry loose potentially damning documents.
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damning with faint praise
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Any obstinate clinging to outworn doctrines, whether of religion or politics or morality or of science, are equally damning and equally damnable.
Dana Ullman: Disinformation on Homeopathy: Two Leading Sources
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I quite liked them - if that's not too damning with faint praise. My only real comment would be that they perhaps needed to polish up their stage act a bit.
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Perhaps the most damning aspect of the Russian domestic security service -- that may actually lap over to the external intelligence service as well -- is the fact that on-duty security officers have regularly "moonlighted" for private commercial enterprises.
The American Spectator
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Behind both these minatory visions stands a bloodthirsty Father, damning and punishing.
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It's also worth noting that it's easier to write a damning review than an effusive one.
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And I think commenting on a book you had no interest in finishing is entirely legit: that's a damning commentary on the book, that you didn't care enough to finish ... and that's important to know.
SF Signal: What works for you?
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But what makes the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room more riveting than anything Hollywood could dream up is all the damning footage those deluded finks left behind.
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The Post Office closure programme was "bulldozed" through local opposition, with the consultation exercise little more than a "sham", according to a damning indictment from influential MPs
Mid morning update: Brown shuffles as party crashes and burns
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As unusual and fascinating as it is, theirs is a music with no center at all, and it's this which most damningly exposes its hollow core.
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We can destroy with a cutting quip or a damning phrase but nobody expects us to create.
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The fact that these children cannot read is a damning indictment of our education system.
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In celebrating Abraham's smashing of Nimrod's idols, damning the fallen Babel rebuilt as Sodom, cursing the Sidonian, Byblian and Tyrean Quarters, the Temples of Judaism in New Jerusalem took on some of the features of the very homodoxy it was fighting.
Archive 2007-04-01
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There can be no more damning accusation today than to accuse a politician of believing in politics.
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The police unearthed some fairly damning evidence against the Freemans, and the list of alleged victims only grew longer.
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Mortality, incarceration and unemployment -- compounded by the statistically rare but symbolically damning greater tendency for Black men than women to marry Whites - leave not enough "marriageable" Black men, especially in urban areas where segregation further limits cross-racial social interaction.
Philip N. Cohen: What Ails Black Women, Part 3: Discrimination And Repercussions
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His lawyer uncovered some potentially damning evidence against the opposition.
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But it is most sadly provocative for its damning portrait of the fate of the ludic impulse in the Hollywood of the late 40's.
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Her report is expected to deliver a damning indictment of education standards.
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Nothing here is damning, but the whole affair ultimately drifts by inoffensively and unmemorably.
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And that someone who agrees with you (generally) can still think your post is hyperbolical, mean-spirited, and (perhaps most damning of all) not funny?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Rehabilitating Pharaoh
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The inquiry also heard damning evidence that CSL and other Government bodies failed to protect public safety.
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But according to plaintiffs' attorneys, the privilege log could be invaluable in helping them pry loose potentially damning documents.
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Specifically, the article repeats, without question, Mrs. Connell's very damning takeon the reporters following her husband's story -- in particular, Larisa Alexandrovnaof Raw Story.
Interview with Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story
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Most damningly of all, it is alleged that up to six new councillors are heavily in debt on their council tax and voting illegally in the chamber.
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But damningly it did not matter whether it had or not.
The Sun
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Experts on such matters say they have rarely seen such a comprehensive and damning judgement.
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So that makes Costello's seeming change of heart on interest rates all the more damning.
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Despite the damning report, education chiefs have welcomed the criticism which they say is balanced and helpful.
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His report was never going to be the searing, damning indictment some had longed for.
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How can they put such a damning construction on a perfectly innocent phrase?
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Education chiefs have pledged that lessons will go on at a tertiary college despite a damning report which criticised most teaching as unsatisfactory and management as weak.
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According to a Sunday newspaper, the damning evidence is contained in an e-mail sent by Jones.
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Poor financial planning was one of the many criticisms in a damning report on the council by the Audit Commission earlier this year.
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The most damning thing I’ve seen yt is that closeup of the WT-7 collapse.
Think Progress » Washington Post on access to prewar intel:
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But maybe the Costa judges read Geoff Dyer's startling and damning assessment of Barnes's The Sense of an Ending: the two writers are, presumably, not Christmas card exchangers.
This week's arts diary
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Son preference, sex selection, female foeticide, whatever we want to call it, is a damning indictment of India in the 21st Century.
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Where Gilman scores is in her damning portrait of the evasions of political correctness.
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Suspicion soon alighted on a young, down-at-heel German-born tailor called Franz Muller, and Mr Briggs' Hat is a compelling read because innocent explanations are gradually posited for the following, apparently damning facts: that Muller was found in possession of Briggs's watch and possibly his hat; that the hat left in the carriage was also traced to him; that he sailed to America just days after the killing.
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder by Kate Colquhoun – review
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A nonobervant sin, damning him to hell.
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Regeneration plans for the town centre have been slated in a damning report by English Heritage.
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He thoroughly searched the house and came up with some startling and damning evidence.
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The report was a damning indictment of declining safety standards between 2003 and May 2005.
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How many more damning reports have to be written before the Government takes epilepsy seriously?
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It may be brilliant political jujitsu - conceding the opposition's most damning point leaves them with mouths agape and little to say - or it may be nuts.
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This seems to me to be a damning indictment of education policy.
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The damning report said the violence could not be described as a "one-off" because of evidence that 1QLR troops abused and mistreated Iraqi civilians on other occasions.
Evening Standard - Home
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But what's possibly the most damning aspect of this is the level of dishonesty, subterfuge and cover-up.
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She repeatedly demonstrates that they are spiritually damning as the evils of heated passion often are not.
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The statistics are damning: Delhi has recorded the fewest sixes of the three venues, a little more than half those hit in Hyderabad; four scores below 100, one of which was the tournament's lowest total; and 40 % of all wickets falling in the "bowled" column, testifying to the difficulty in predicting the bounce.
Cricinfo news from Cricinfo
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More damningly, he said, "the organization does baby him.
Baby Salsa Dance? Cruz Welcomes First Child
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What his comments illustrate most clearly, and most damningly, is a depth of arrogance that could go some way towards explaining just why Britain's swimmers have under-performed.
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Perhaps the most damning evidence is in the chapter by Painter, which argues that the use of questionnaires imposes culture on others and inevitably predetermines responses.
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Hundreds of mothers with severe postnatal depression are being forced to leave their new-born babies behind to get treatment at Scotland's psychiatric units, a damning report has revealed.
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Frank discovers that the good Reverend may be involved in some shady, sinister dealings when he discovers damning evidence in a wall safe.
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His expression was bland, and he obviously had no intention of filling the damning silence.
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There is the possibility, still, that further and far more damning evidence has yet to be divulged.
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It was a damningly honest answer from a man who rarely flirts with the truth.
The Sun
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A damning critic of the United Nations, he was also the Senate's champion of international law.
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Most damningly of all, the Taliban control 70% of the country.
Azeem Ibrahim: Negotiations With the Taliban Point to the Need to Leave Afghanistan
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The contents break, shatter, explode, leak and escape, usually in the way most damning of the innocent drudge attempting to sort them.
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As a junior attorney on the case, I recall all too vividly the many hours spent combing through those documents for damning evidence.
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But perhaps most damningly of all, Dyer says the book is not terrible, it is just so … average.
This week's arts diary
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‘Glossy, meretricious crap,’ is his damning verdict.
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They reveal so many surprising and new facts that it is a damning indictment of the usual histories that are peddled in schools and colleges.
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But rather than vindicating the staff I think this is more damning.
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Chaytor concludes, damningly, that a university system financed wholly or largely out of general taxation can only ever be a system designed for an elite.
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Mr Hale was suspended by the council in April 1997 in the light of a damning district auditor's report on junketing and expenses abuse which prompted the beginning of a huge police inquiry into wrongdoing.
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Not surprisingly, Edmunds's defence team did not attempt to challenge any of this damning evidence.
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We know what Pastor Wright said about damning America but now we can see further into the Wright theology or the lack of it with Obama's inference to last day's theology more commonly referred to as eschatological doctrine.
Canada Free Press
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A stoush is brewing between state and territory governments and their federal counterpart, over yesterday's damning report into mental health.
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Sleaze, a word damningly synonymous with the Tories during their final years in power, had become a Labour issue too.
A Question of Honour
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Given the damning evidence that Secrest and Hyland present, this view no longer holds up.
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The opening track unfurls at a crawl, like a narcotizing drip of slow realization, as he eulogizes the rock aspirations of his younger self, and it's unclear whether he's damning music or his belief in it.
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But according to plaintiffs' attorneys, the privilege log could be invaluable in helping them pry loose potentially damning documents.
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The shocking crimes of these disturbed youths lead to interviews with Dr. Wertham and the revelation that the leader of the Brooklyn Thrill Killers was inspired by horror and crime comics, including most damningly, the Nights of Horror series.
The Lasting Impact of Joe Shuster's Secret
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Hazy but damning snapshots of the episode were released on that evening's television news.
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These remarks, intended as praise, are in reality the most damning criticism.
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That Guy says: more and more countries are damning the French, Germans and Russians for their part in appeasing and enabling the terrorists they find on their own soil.
Think Progress » Iraq: The War To Start All Wars
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No great footballer's contribution to a major final can ever have been more damningly negligible.
Times, Sunday Times
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However some of the damning evidence later proved to be inconclusive.
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Then there are those damning insidious remarks of Libyan dictator Col. Muammar Gaddafi thanking, among others, the Queen, Prince Andrew (a so-called "Special Representative" for British trade) and Brown for their assistance, as well as open admissions by British trade experts as to the "helpfulness" of the release, leaving many to conclude, despite denials, that the deal was done in exchange for Libyan oil.
Vicky Ward: Why Britain Should Apologize for Releasing the Lockerbie Killer -- and Why it Won't
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Only it is not clear that the identification of such a project as state capitalism is damning.
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Wilful impenitency is the great damning sin of multitudes that enjoy the gospel, and which (more than any other) sinners will be upbraided with to eternity.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The damning criticism is contained in a report which also reveals the Isle of Wight's three jails are failing.
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He has the freedom now to speak his mind on issues that affect us all, and he presents a solid case damning them, without a lot of romantic claptrap.
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Thanks to Bush (with help from the impotent and crooked Zeropeans) the UN is more irrelevant today than it has ever been and more and more countries are damning the French, Germans and Russians for their part in appeasing and enabling the terrorists they find on their own soil.
Think Progress » Iraq: The War To Start All Wars
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It was the subject of a damning documentary.
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The damning report into e-voting confirmed all the warnings from critics.
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If his hair and Natalee's hair is on it, yes it'll be very damning evidence and possibly proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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We passed our damning evidence to the police, who swooped on the companies' premises and arrested the masterminds behind the bogus operation.
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He called his iniquitous vices, follies -- his licentiousness, love of pleasure -- his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called "fashion" -- the fashion of the young men of the day.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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A damning report by the Psychiatric Nurses 'Association has claimed the service is being allowed to "disintegrate" with no regard for quality of care or safety.
IrishExaminer.com
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And second - even more damningly - he had also entirely made up his fellow researchers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He made some fairly damning remarks about the government's refusal to deal with the problem.
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All are marked in the dictionary -- if there at all -- by the slightly damning label "interj.," devoid of the status accorded to nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2
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If, on the other hand, we say of a boy, ‘He's not going anywhere,’ we are not praising his steadfastness but damning him as an ambitionless sluggard.
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The two men were convicted on some extremely damning evidence.
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The Villa manager stretched his unbeaten run in derbies to 14 matches but more damning statistics will have been playing on the minds of the disgruntled home supporters who drifted away today.
Villa give Gérard Houllier little to cheer in draw with Birmingham
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I dont mind your damning and blasting, and what the devil and where the devil and who the devil
Act II
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After the blow-up, David went to authorities with a box of damning evidence.
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Some of his answers were defined, simply and damningly, as 'incomprehensible'.
Times, Sunday Times
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This article ( "Sarah Palin, Dem greens 'grinch" -- POLITICO. com) nicely illustrates the Left's efforts to distract from the damning -- absolutely damning, revelations that leading global warming "scientists" were relying on deception and intimidation to promote their environmental agenda.
WisdomIsVindicated
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More damningly, he seems incapable of engendering either passion or pride in his charges.
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Experts suspected the draughtsmanship, the dancer's 'trivial' face and, most damningly, the signature.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scandal is damning evidence of the government's contempt for democracy.
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Her report is expected to deliver a damning indictment of education standards.
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Armed with hidden cameras, wires and various neat little surveillance gadgets, Vince and his assistant Beth set out to gather damning evidence against the unsuspecting adulteress.
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Both reports are a damning indictment of the criminal negligence of the military.
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It is, no doubt, the wont of every generation to look back at the past with an over-egged fondness and to be too damning of current standards.
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As I sat there, damning and condemning myself, the same two words floated through my mind over and over again.
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He should know full well the Church does not "condemn those of different religious view" with some damning and wholesale wave of the hand, but instead argues that contraception is objectively evil, which means those using contraceptives may or may not be culpable for their actions, depending on what they know and so forth.
Life Issues
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Then the damning evidence piled up and his journey from superstar to common cheat proved as swift as it was unsavoury.
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He called his iniquitous vices, follies his licentiousness, love of pleasure his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called ‘fashion’ the fashion of the young men of the day.
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
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No damning artwork to highlight the world's love of oil, rather an attempt to get officials from Perth and Kinross Council to repair his "inhabitable" house.
British Blogs
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Not long after this damning report, criticism again rained on the Bank.
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The affable John Southworth registers his discontent mildly yet emphatically, his soft British accent shading the offending phrase with the damning taint of dismissiveness.
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He was further described as ungentlemanly by a brace of spinsters who had been within earshot on the veranda the morning he had abused the Asquith roads, but their evidence was not looked upon as damning.
The Celebrity, Complete
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Together they constituted a quite damning indictment of the whole program.
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There is damning evidence that their human rights have been routinely violated over many years and allegations that this has continued until very recently.
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This gloomy portrait of the current state of morale - or rather the lack of it - was made public yesterday in a damning report by the prefects, the country's top administrators.
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The poverty in our cities is a damning indictment of modern society.
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Portlaoise hospital was seventh from the bottom of the 54 acute hospitals in the damning report that shows widespread neglect of basic hygiene practices.
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The other four nominees suffer in comparison from being relatively established names and, more damningly, from having short, blokey names.
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Three senior judges agreed to remove the most damning passage, but Lord Neuberger later admitted he may have been "overhasty" in removing his comments at the request of Jonathan Sumption QC, working on behalf of the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband.
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Yun Tianhe: Damning pig monster! Get out!
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The tape contained damning evidence.
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One of his most damning accusations is that the agency failed to do what it was mainly designed to do: break high-level ciphers.
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Her report is expected to deliver a damning indictment of education standards.
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Here is the damning evidence of the extent of the government's betrayal.
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Kunstler has the tartness and timing of a stand-up comic, so his complaints about American life often end up being as hilarious as they are damning.
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He understands style to mean "which words are right for a given context" and thus the most damning indictment he can make of a writer like Denis Johnson is that "he does not respect words enough to think they should mean something," a formulation by which "meaning" in construed in the most literal, predetermined, unimaginative of ways.
Style in Fiction
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Average TV Viewer says: more and more countries are damning the French, Germans and Russians for their part in appeasing and enabling the terrorists they find on their own soil.
Think Progress » Iraq: The War To Start All Wars
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More damningly, the education system has been labouring under this misapprehension too.
The Sun
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Listening to Burns, it is difficult to quibble with his damning assessment.
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Then the damning evidence piled up and his journey from superstar to common cheat proved as swift as it was unsavoury.
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The environmental movement also shared a damning feature with the cause of media reform: There were no powerful monied interests that would benefit by its success.
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Suspicion rested on a handful of a details, which the Crown took as damning evidence and for which her defence said there was a perfectly innocent explanation.
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Despite its denials and stonewalling, damning evidence has come to light implicating it in the deaths.
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Most damningly they are less numerate and literate than their parents or grandparents — the only country where that is so.
The Sun
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When afflicted, he scandalizes his comforters by damning the day that he was born.
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No, they add damningly, "The man was all politics all the time.
Robert Teitelman: Morgenson and Rosner's "Reckless Endangerment"
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The author has since delivered a damning counterblast to her critics.
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An South Carolinian inmate is suing Vick, and had some pretty damning evidence to back up his claims: Jonathan Lee Riches filed the handwritten complaint over "theft and abuse of my animals" on July 23 in the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va.
Archive 2007-08-01
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The doctor gave damning evidence in the trial of Mrs Symons, saying that one of her children, Jenny, had died from being shaken.
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One of the most damning indictments of lethal injections as a means of capital punishment came from a 2005 article in The Lancet, which found that 43% of inmates undergoing lethal injection may be conscious when the fatal and excruciatingly painful dose of potassium chloride is delivered, due to insufficient doses of the anesthetic sodium thiopental.
Nature Versus Nurturing the Death Penalty
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You might argue that these young writers are painting us a damning portrait of ourselves.
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A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare — they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.
Flashman and the Dragon
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Needing to prove that compassion is not a luxury but a fundamental requirement of a healthcare system is a damning indictment of our current ways of thinking.
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He is set to inherit, come January 2009, the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1920s; the complete and bloody mess Bush and his cronies have made of Iraq, and Afghanistan; a health service which, in the world's biggest democracy, is an absolute disgrace of inequality and poor or non-existent provision; and, a view of the US internationally which could not be more damning or dire and yet, until now, under Dubya's two-term misrule, was entirely justified on grounds of the outgoing administration's inexhaustible arrogance and insane 'go it alone and to hell with the rest of you' policies.
British Blogs
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Most damningly, Knepper had also posted a photo of two quite young-looking males sharing an embrace, and said he found the image arousing.
Michael Tracey: Pedophilia Accusations in the Conservative Blogosphere: How the Right Abandoned One of Their Brightest
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Not only did the majority of the media overlook this flurry of questionable and occasionally illegal activity on the part of the prosecution, it also seemed perfectly content to perpetuate damning propaganda on the prosecution's behalf, despite a complete lack of corroborative evidence.
Charles Thomson: One of the Most Shameful Episodes In Journalistic History
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It may turn out that there is damning evidence that we have not yet seen.
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There has been a damning indictment of living conditions at a remote Aboriginal community by the West Australian coroner.
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Bacher broke into tears as he painted a damning picture of global match-fixing.
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Most damningly of all, we feel sorry for ourselves.
Times, Sunday Times
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How can they put such a damning construction on a perfectly innocent phrase?
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Each witness sits on the witness chair and delivers a piece of damning evidence.
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In the face of such damning evidence Jakobs had little defence against the charge of being a spy.
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More than anything, however, it is a damning indictment on the legal system at that time.
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A school for children with learning difficulties has been severely criticised and branded ineffective by inspectors in a damning report.
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A week ago he'd been damning his coolies for useless, but now he was in a desperate fret for their welfare - they were to carry in the scaling ladders in the teeth of cannon, jingal-fire, spears, stinkpots and whatever else the Manchoos were hurling from the walls, and Temple, the ass, was determined to go in with them.
Flashman and the Dragon
