Sentence examples for A lamentable state from inspiring English sources

And Germany's retail sector was in a lamentable state.

In 1998, a team of United Nations oil experts concluded that Iraq's oil industry was in a "lamentable state," with an urgent need for new equipment.

Those years were a time of self-questioning, he said, "of agonizing about being an African, making out of Africa a myth of the mind, making of my language my homeland, as it were". He was an exile then, a word that to him connotes a lamentable state of self-pity, backward harking, suspension.

Really, this is a very lamentable state of affairs.

It's a measure of the lamentable state of independent distribution in this country that the movie, despite receiving some critical support at Cannes, never hooked an American buyer, which is why it's opening in New York at the Anthology Film Archives as part of a special program.

Martin Johnson, the England manager, drew a line in the sand – a reasonable description, given the lamentable state of the Millennium Stadium pitch – ahead of next week's meeting with Wales by stating: "We're going down there to scrum.

Last month she infuriated Latvia's judges with an attack on the lamentable state of justice.

To call for an effort to change that lamentable state of affairs was inspiring and surely correct.

Her talent was to see the necessity of radical change – a task made easier by the lamentable state of the Labour party – and to push it through with the assistance of huge Commons majorities.

To this day, Clinton refers to Obama's dithering as a historic "failure" which led to the current lamentable state of affairs.

The budgets were minuscule but air-space was vast - in particular a daily, hour-and-a-half, live drive-time show on art and culture (given the lamentable state of arts programming now, it seems future and progress don't always go together).