In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.
Devaluation was seen as a national humiliation, so was resisted until the last minute.
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The fortifications were after all German fortifications - emblems to the French of their own national humiliation.
Israeli strikes against the Lebanese army, which represents all sects and has not joined the fighting, are felt as a national humiliation.
The treatment of children in Romania in particular, and the country's many state orphanages, has long been a source of national humiliation.
That is a national humiliation for a major European country.
After a series of snafus and scandals during the run up to the Games, India saved itself from complete national humiliation by an opening ceremony that was genuinely spectacular.
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China has declared a national defense remembrance day "to keep fresh the memory of national humiliation it suffered at the hands of foreign powers, " according to a December dispatch from the official Xinhua news agency.
There is an understandable fear that some big banks perceived to be weak won't be strengthened sufficiently, because their respective governments would want to avoid the national humiliation of admitting that these flagship institutions have become fragile.
Similarly this year, the general weathered another storm: the public humiliation of a great national hero, Abdul Qadeer Khan.
The saga of Berlin's new airport has turned into a national joke and a source of humiliation for a people renowned for being on time.
The Islamist opposition in Pakistan has since called for a national strike to protest at Mr Khan's humiliation.
It is understandable, in the awful trauma of post-communist disorientation and loss of national pride, that people should fend off the prospect of yet more self-abasing humiliation.
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