They and the Lib Dems claimed the whole thing was a humiliating climbdown by a government.
The sale, to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, eases this cash problem, but it is also a humiliating exit from a big market.
What I don't want to see and I would find it very humiliating as a woman if it happened to me, is somebody just given a position which men or others have to compete for.
Tony Blair's accusation on Friday that the Tories would be faced, in government, with a choice between a humiliating surrender over their demands for a renegotiation of EU treaties, or withdrawal, was his most dramatic attack on Mr Hague's European policy yet.
But as for Arsenal ending its silverware drought, the Premier League team suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Bradford City, a team three divisions lower in the English football league.
It would probably end either with a humiliating extraction of the international inspectorate under fire or a full-scale war aimed at rescuing them under conditions that are sure to be less than optimal.
His successor, Michael Howard, beat a humiliating retreat on performance-related pay after the police staged a mass 20, 000-strong protest rally at Wembley Stadium.
So the transport minister was forced to perform a humiliating volte face and go back to the drawing board - at a cost for the taxpayer which may well run to hundreds of millions of pounds.
At one point this week it looked as if the government might be faced with a humiliating defeat in the Bundestag, parliament's lower house, after a group of Greens, the Social Democrats' junior coalition partners, threatened to vote against a proposed rise in pension contributions from 19.1% to 19.5%.
The Portuguese government was forced this past weekend to issue a humiliating public statement denying speculation that Germany and France had been pressuring it to accept a bailout.
Stuttgart, Sevilla and a humiliating thrashing from Romanian minnows Unirea Urziceni meant Rangers had no chance of making an impact a year ago.
Heiko Westermann doubled Hamburg's tally late on, but it couldn't disguise what was a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Jupp Heynckes' side, who will be crowned champions of Germany for a 23rd time if they get a point at Frankfurt next weekend.
One, Mars Climate Orbiter, had a particularly humiliating crash, because the fault lay with a group of engineers who, in defiance of common sense, had continued to use imperial units of measurement in their calculations when all around had adopted the metric system.
Even more worrying was whether the exhausting pace of the past week would suddenly yield a humiliating yawn.
For politicians schooled in name-calling, such problems of nomenclature are a humiliating novelty.
Sterling was in crisis and Norman Lamont was forced to announce a humiliating withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
In part, perhaps, because he will not want to throw a lifeline to Ed Miliband by making a humiliating U-turn.
The tourists collapsed to a humiliating defeat by an innings and 23 runs in the first Test against West Indies.
Whatever his faults, Mr. Najib's personal popularity likely saved the ruling coalition from a humiliating loss after 50 years in power.
It was a humiliating turn for Electronic Data Systems, the Plano, Tex. giant founded in 1962 by tough-talking Navy veteran H.
It was a humiliating turn for Electronic Data Systems, the Plano, Texas giant founded in 1962 by tough-talking Navy veteran H.
After a humiliating climb-down, Mr Duncan Smith was forced to re-employ Mr Gilbert and had to get rid of Mr Legg expensively.
And if, after all, the opposition parties were to return to debate it, Mr Obuchi could present that as a humiliating climbdown.
In a humiliating blow for Daft, they called the deal too expensive.
The Russian fourth seed's last match was a humiliating straight sets loss to veteran Italian Davide Sanguinetti at the Miami Masters in March.
Moreover, to obtain his royal pardon, Sheikh Jamri was obliged to read a humiliating letter of apology to the emir on national television.
Williams was sent to the canvas twice in the opening round on the way to a humiliating first fight, quarter-final, loss to Sheffield's Baker.
But nor, it appeared, have Serb forces been reduced to the ruined shell that would force Mr Milosevic to sue for a humiliating peace.
Only time will tell if the Indian peacekeepers will now pluck success from the jaws of what was for the UN a humiliating defeat.
The two players came face to face at Stamford Bridge on Saturday but Bridge refused to shake Terry's hand before kick-off in a humiliating snub.
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