Sentence examples for appalling manner from inspiring English sources

Gary Walker, a former hospital trust chief executive, spoke passionately about how he was gagged, smeared and threatened in the most appalling manner after raising concerns that pressure to meet targets was compromising patient safety.

The Nkandla project had been handled in an "appalling" manner, state funds had been "abused", and Mr Zuma's failure to protect the public's resources violated the executive ethics code and amounted to misconduct.

His perdition only worsens when he learns that the reservation manager is missing, Heston Blumenthal has arrived unexpectedly, the staff meal has already been eaten and a sick customer has fouled the men's room in a most appalling manner.

But she ordered Zuma to pay a "reasonable percentage" of the cost of the renovations not related to security at his homestead and "reprimand the ministers involved for the appalling manner in which the Nkandla project was handled and state funds were abused".

Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.49am GMT 6th over: England 30-0 (Cook 11 Bell 15) From the first ball of the over Wade is appealing in a frankly appalling manner to what surely even he didn't see as an edge from Ian Bell's mistimed drive.

"The joint chapel of the Scotsman Publications would like to register – in the strongest possible terms – our anger and disbelief at the appalling manner in which our editor-in-chief has been treated by the management of Johnston Press," the union said in a motion put to management late on Thursday.

I declined, and not very politely, because I really do have appalling manners.

But in between sessions, we made a little film... .. Appalling manners.

In 1963, the American expatriate director Joseph Losey, working with a script by Harold Pinter (based on Robin Maugham's novel), created a brilliant but almost laughably vile snake pit of appalling manners, lust, and degradation.

Their husbands' chief favorites, however — Mesdames de Montespan, de Pompadour, and du Barry (a ravishing former prostitute with appalling manners who was still plying her trade with the old Louis XV when Antoinette arrived at court) — were glittering cynosures whose power no one dared to ignore.

That became a sidebar when I realised there was more fertile material in the appalling manners of the British public as well as the entertainment provided by daily lovers' tiffs, family feuds and the oversharing of intimate secrets at the till.