Sentence examples for a scandalous state from inspiring English sources

I mean this is a scandalous state of affairs and believe me it will not stop me coming to India.

It takes its titular imagery and its inspiration from the 1884 painting Madame X, in which John Singer Sargent portrayed a famous Parisian beauty in what was then a scandalous state of déshabillé.

At one time, the law regarded it as acceptable to attempt to discredit the complainant in a rape case by cross-examining her at length about her sex life if it had previously been other than completely chaste; a scandalous state of affairs which Parliament redressed by legislation putting limits on this sort of questioning.

Are these the graves they slumber in?" But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.

The scale of incarceration in the US makes it a massive outlier among liberal democracies, and this scandalous state of affairs has to affect every extradition decision.

"The education department is in denial about the scandalous state of school dining.

A grassroots effort founded by Tarana Burke that's been a decade in the making, the #MeToo movement has done more to frontline the conversation about the harassment and abuse women have to endure on a daily basis than perhaps anything else, and it's served as the major catalyst behind the unmasking of Hollywood's scandalous state.

A scandalous story exploded in the Russian state media earlier this month.

This is, of course, a scandalous commentary on the disparity between state and private education, but University College London, having bravely pioneered a language requirement, had to drop it – or be penalised for missing its social equity target.

What makes a scandal scandalous?

After a scandalous decline under the previous Conservative administration, PE in state schools was slowly rebuilt by the last Labour government from just a quarter of pupils doing two hours a week in 1997, to 93% in 2010.