national degradation

He received a sentence of 100 years at hard labor and national degradation for life.

After all, they have had a pretty lousy 150 years of war, invasion, famine and national degradation.

January 1945: Charles Maurras was sentenced to life imprisonment and national degradation.

On 18 November 1947, during the épuration légale period, he was condemned in absentia to 20 years of prison and to "national degradation" (dégradation nationale).

Autonomous military bureaucrats united around a nationalist ideology will act in a revolutionary manner only in response to movements within the country demanding an end to national degradation by foreign powers.

Only 791 executions were actually carried out, including those of Pierre Laval, Joseph Darnand, and the journalist Robert Brasillach; far more common was "national degradation"-a loss of civil rights, which was meted out to 49,723 people.

He was mean, evasive, callously indifferent to his country's interests, a cheat, a man who habitually broke his word, and who was responsible, with his associates, for most of the poverty, misery, crime, and national degradation with which the country was afflicted.

Mr. Wyse, in his History of the Catholic Association, says: "The entire object of his long life seems to have been to redeem it [his country] from the self-ignorance, the blind impolicy, the national degradation to which it had been reduced.

As Kershaw says, "The rise from the depths of national degradation to the heights of national greatness seemed for so many (as propaganda never ceased to trumpet) to be a near miracle - a work of redemption brought about by the unique genius of the Fhrer."