When it comes to brash speculation, cattlemen have shamed many a Wall Streeter over the years.
If a supermarket fails to comply, it can then be named and shamed, and - as a last resort - fined.
For countries that care about such things, being shamed by nerds is a useful exercise.
In June some 35 firms became the first to be "named and shamed" for employing a total of 56 illegal immigrants - almost all of them takeaways or restaurants.
It also has raised the stakes in the top tier to the point where Nebraska (never one to take football lightly) dismissed its coach this year after he shamed the partisans with a won-loss record of...9-3!
No, Hyundai had to be shamed into the admission by a grass-roots campaign of skepticism about the mileage claims and then suffer the ignominy of a finding of wrongdoing by an EPA audit.
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Lord McNally conceded that people should be "slightly shamed by the fact that a large number of young people who find their way into the criminal justice system as adults have been in our care as children".
Striegel-Moore says one of the African-American women she studied who suffered from an eating disorder felt she had shamed her race by having a white woman's disease, but concern over appearance, the professor says, is only one contributing factor.
Or she might scold him, fostering a sense that he was publicly shamed for his conduct.
In a study of ten "named and shamed" colleges, Paul Goddard-Patel and Stephen Whitehead found evidence of good practice inside the classroom and in the interaction between lecturers and students.
Mr Bell said action was needed because "not a single frontbencher who has been named and shamed by The Daily Telegraph has lost his or her job".
But you feel sort of shamed around him, because I think of myself as a fan of music, and I would say that if I had to find a genre that really appeals to me it would be classic rock.
David Colquhoun, a pharmacology professor at University College London, has shamed some universities into ending alternative courses.
Different participants named and shamed different earworm songs and each individual participant tended to report a range of different songs, rather than pointing to repeat offending by the same recalcitrant tune.
Lost in the turbulence is another institution, Coach Joe Paterno, who for decades led the Penn State Nittany Lions to great heights, and now, at a time when he should be basking in the glory of a successful career, he finds himself disgraced, shamed and dishonored by the very institution that held him in such high esteem.
This drew a furious response from one of the countries named and shamed in the report, Zimbabwe.
They were set a deadline of Thursday to provide the information or they would be named and shamed.
As Clarridge recalls in his memoir, A Spy for All Seasons, it was only after he convinced the U.S. Department of State to publish details of the terrorists' hierarchy and financial dealings in a handbook distributed worldwide through U.S. embassies that governments and financial institutions were shamed into terminating their links to Nidal's group.
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