Sentence examples for a pitiful condition from inspiring English sources

If western leaders have been surprised and also impressed by the sudden display of Russian military prowess, Ukraine, by contrast, is in a pitiful condition militarily, according to Nato officials.

Left to decay, and in a pitiful condition by the mid 19th century, the chapel underwent a restoration in 1836 based on descriptions and drawings of the original building.

As a pioneer in the movement to allow choice in end-of-life issues, he went to jail for helping a man with a pitiful condition end his own life, and he did it on the CBS program "60 Minutes". To me, Jack Kevorkian was a hero, not a murderer.

"I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"."I am living," said the king, "in a very pitiful condition"His duties, he said in hesitant English (his father had struggled to pay the school fees), are religious and cultural, and he cannot speak outside them.

He was released in 2011 only after it was argued that he was dying.Fittingly, he managed to postpone that fate a bit, but he was in pitiful condition.

Haitians living abroad say that such comments miss the point and at the same time intensify the psychological wounds in a group that has always felt a sense of guilt over the country's pitiful condition.

Memories of his father's pitiful condition and, while on holidays spent near a barracks, the sight of endless drilling and marching put him off the army.

"As a young boy growing up in India and Tibet I observed the pitiful condition in which nuns lived," says His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritual head of the Drukpas.

The article's observations regarding "rutted roads" and "long-neglected picnic groves and campgrounds" more accurately describe the pitiful condition of the reservation.

The pitiful condition of many of the ancient buildings on Iona offered MacLeod and his seven comrades an opportunity to show something of the spirit that had impelled Columba and his 12 followers, more than 1,300 years earlier, to leave their native Ireland to spread the gospel.

References to Dicey, Voltaire and the great eighteenth-century case of Entick v Carrington are invoked by Lord Justice Judge to lament the pitiful condition of the French under the Bourbons for their inferior status, without benefit of the glorious English constitution in King George III's reign.