1.   Activists, making unjustified charges of bigotry against the ad, so terrified some cowardly editors that they censored their own papers or issued humiliating apologies.

2.   But after publication came a humiliating apology.

3.   He dumped an associate who sided with the rebels and extracted humiliating apologies from others who consorted with the enemy.

4.   They either censored themselves by refusing to run the ad or they issued humiliating apologies after they did so.

5.   British Airways settled a libel suit several years ago and issued a humiliating public apology to Virgin.

6.   Greenpeace had to issue a humiliating public apology.

7.   Virgin settled a libel suit by getting a humiliating public apology from the former British Airways chairman, Lord King, who then retired early.

8.   The Wall Street titan also was forced into making a humiliating apology to its clients.

9.   Japanese nationalists were incensed by the plan, warning that Akihito could be forced to make a humiliating public apology for the war.

10.   She is ordered to retract her criticism or resign and rescues her job by issuing a humiliating apology.