Sentence examples similar to a lamentable act from inspiring English sources

Watching someone else earn twenty times what you do, though they have less training, do less public good, and work no harder, can lead a person to commit lamentable acts in an effort to even the score.

IT IS a lamentable fact that even the best men do ugly things in war.

The investigations into the lamentable acts that had occurred in Iguala would "continue until their ultimate consequences," she vowed.

Even if he was no longer in office, Mecham – who, among other lamentable acts, infamously defended using the word "pickaninny" to describe black children – was a worthy target.

The Rev. Jorge Oesterheld, a spokesman for the Argentine Conference of Bishops, said that while the case was painful because it involves "shameful and lamentable acts," the Argentine church "has no jurisdiction over this matter".

Why?" displayed a lamentable lack of self-awareness – or are his motives a little more complex?

Yet real life seems to show a lamentable lack of respect for systems of psychiatric classification.

On criticism: "There is a lamentable lack of critical debate about contemporary art.

In the past decade or so, there has been a lamentable decline in the number of labs doing telomere research in ciliates.

If the Court does not recognize and act on this insight, it will continue to undermine its standing with the public and provide a lamentable model for state and local judges across the country to do the same.

It is a "lamentable" story.