Sentence examples for a pitiful state of from inspiring English sources

It is a pitiful state of affairs when a declared nationalist is keen for his proposed independent nation to have an unaccountable foreign Queen as their head of state.

At the same time, however, the prolonged lack of all basic necessities has crushed the great mass of Iraqis, once proudly in the van of Arab advancement, to a pitiful state of near-destitution.The controversy over responsibility is particularly relevant at the moment, after last week's report by Unicef.

The Soviet dictator did not dare face the truth, because the Red Army was still in such a pitiful state after the purges and the neglect of his own crony, Marshal Voroshilov.

Desperate to lure the Allies into battle, Napoleon gave every indication in the days preceding the engagement that the French army was in a pitiful state, even abandoning the dominant Pratzen Heights near the village of Austerlitz.

Peace is holding in troubled north of the country, but the economy there remains in a pitiful state.

"We found the country in a pitiful state".

Wolves were in a pitiful state in 1986.

"Our emergency services are in a pitiful state," he told the newspaper.

Mrs Bradford said the oiled and storm-blown birds that had been rescued were in a "pitiful state".

The Tuscany Gian Gastone inherited was in a pitiful state: the army numbered less than 3,000, the royal coffer was empty and Florence was full of beggars.

"It was a huge and magnificent bird, but seriously wounded and in a pitiful state.