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• Should he persist, he becomes the cause of scandal, and his reputation soon becomes detestable.

• They pronounce excessively severe penalties, commit the most detestable acts of barbarity, and cover everything up with lies.

• It is a detestable and indefensible creed and the sooner it is swept away the better.

• It is impossible to exaggerate the harm which has been done to some of our most beautiful countryside through this really detestable ribbon development.

• Nothing is more detestable and reprehensible than the use of common informers for a reward to prosecute religious observances.

• This is detestable at a time when we live in a world which is precariously balanced between annihilation and peace.

• And they are using that detestable kind of force which our people deeply resented when it was used against this country.

• It is a system which, to my mind, is completely detestable to our way of life and system of thought.

• They have always seemed to me, from the very first, detestable hooliganism.

• Another item of expenditure is the detestable prin- ciple of giving a percentage on cost.

• The newly appointed judge soon discovers that the most difficult and detestable of his tasks is that of deciding the matter of sentencing.

• It must undermine both the burden and the standard of proof required before one has conviction of an absolutely detestable crime.

• By our national standards political assassination is always detestable and always wrong.

• I think that is a detestable method of assisting anybody.

• I prefer to think that we are not, after all, so utterly detestable in the eyes of every other nation in the world.