1.   It was a catchphrase for national shame now, applicable to virtually every snafu.

2.   Acknowledged national shame is enough.

3.   Moreover, pretending that big-time college sports programs are amateur pursuits is grotesque hypocrisy and a national shame.

4.   To our collective national shame, negative stereotypes of African Americans remain deeply embedded in the American unconscious and are reinforced by the omnipresent media.

5.   Postwar German textbooks denigrate Hitler as a misguided madman and portray the Nazi era as a time of national shame.

6.   Ramos has launched a campaign against child abuse and child sex tourism, saying it has become a national shame.

7.   China plans to salvage four warships sunk by Japan a century ago as a reminder of foreign aggression and national shame, the official China Daily reported Saturday.

8.   It is time to abandon the paralyzing clich that corruption is simply a matter of culture, and instead look for effective ways to combat this national shame.

9.   Jeepney a national shame.

10.   The authoritarian Tudjman has repeatedly referred to the opposition as traitors and a national shame.