Word: insultingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...picked for a secret mission one evening in early 2005, Ahmed Bakr felt no fear. He had been on many life-threatening assignments for al-Qaeda in Iraq. In comparison, taking a small package of high explosives to a village on the outskirts of Baghdad was almost an insult. "I thought, Why are they sending a fighter for such a simple job?" he says. But when he arrived at the given address, he began to sense that the mission might not be so petty after all. The modest house was guarded by fighters, one of whom recognized Bakr and waved...
...plan was to burnish Hyundai and Lone Star's public image, it's backfired. Critics and local media have called the pledges a cheap ploy to get the government to overlook any wrongdoing. "It's just ridiculous. It's an insult to the public and it is unprecedented," says Professor Jang Hasung, dean of Korea University Business School, calling the moves a bad precedent for other companies: "Now the rumor is who is next, and how much should they contribute...
...several times and admires much about it, was appalled. Coburn, he claims, talked of himself as "a representative of Jesus. He spoke like he was preaching to us. They said, 'What are your criticisms of your own government?' I don't think they were deliberately trying to insult us, but their superiority complex really...
...being called a “return to form” and lavished with praise out of proportion to its actual merit. “3121” is a fine record, and one of the better R&B releases of the year, but it’s an insult to Prince’s legacy to place it in the same league as his best work. The album’s greatest flaw is that it finds Prince following rather than setting musical trends. The album’s obligatory club-banger, “Black Sweat...
...That's Sicilian!" Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explained, after making a rude hand gesture last week when asked what he'd say to critics who question his impartiality. Here's a look at four other memorable moments in the long, colorful history of the political insult...