(The lamentable condition of the speechwriter's shoes is one of the running gags in the book).
Here Mr Schwarzenegger stands on the side of the angels against the public-sector unions; indeed, his reforms should be tougher.For instance, given the lamentable condition of the state's schools, is it really so heinous to support an initiative to force teachers to work for five years, not two, before they become virtually unsackable?
"Flatness," for Sousanis's purposes, is not the quality of abstraction that Clement Greenberg lauded in modern art, but the lamentable condition of the inhabitants of Edwin A. Abbott's "Flatland": the inability to understand that there might be more than one can immediately perceive.
In a question to the House of Commons in 1950 the Member of Parliament for Rossendale, Mr. Anthony Greenwood, highlighted the lamentable condition of the Irwell and one of its main tributaries, the River Roch: Today I am afraid that fish in most of those rivers are virtually extinct.
She also gave heart to Mandela and other prisoners on Robben Island by frequently visiting them, making a huge fuss about their lamentable conditions and achieving a large improvement in them.
While such lamentable conditions are seen in a number of countries, there are other countries (or states within countries) that, as has already been discussed, demonstrate the rewards of having a functioning universal public healthcare system – with better health achievements and also larger development of human capabilities.
It is a "lamentable" story.
"It has been a lamentable incident.
Monstrous fellow who was bumped off in a lamentable fashion.
It's a lamentable rate of failure.
A lamentable loss to a neighborhood?
