Sentence examples for be deplorable if from inspiring English sources

The English and Their History is transformative: it will be deplorable if its challenges are shirked, or its evidence is pooh-poohed.

Labour MP Mike Gapes said it would be "deplorable" if his party failed to back military action in Syria in the wake of the Commons vote.

It would be deplorable if the US and other EU states took the lead while Cameron refused to take similar action".

Seismologists may not be able to forecast earthquakes precisely but it would be deplorable if they were to resign themselves to modelling just the regular, gradual movements of tectonic plates.

Canada's Foreign Minister, Lloyd Axworthy, said today that it would be deplorable "if the visit is used for purposes of propagandizing some of his views," but added that Mr. Haider had the right to visit.

"Such government regulation of radio programs as would manifestly be deplorable if it can possibly be avoided," in the words of the first chief of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927.

This is deplorable: If even brash Russian oil men are afraid to come out and admit how good life has been to them, what hope is there for the rest of us?

"If it turns out to be true it would be deplorable".

"If it were just a cosmetic thing, it would be deplorable behavior.

"If it turns out to be true, it would be deplorable," the spokesman said in the statement.

As Singleton wrote: Rioting is deplorable, however, if events such as this are to be mitigated in the future, the prevailing conditions and constraints effecting people living in areas must form part of the discussion.