Sentence examples for bewailing from inspiring English sources

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bewailing

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Present participle of bewail

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'You don't make many friends as a Lycra Lout, cycling aggressively across London,' chunters the city's paper, the Evening Standard, bewailing 'that aggressive breed of rampaging cyclist who will apparently take any risk to beat the traffic'.

Having fallen prey this week to what presents itself as a popular revolt but looks much like an old-fashioned coup, Mr Nasheed, known by his nickname "Anni", is back in a familiar predicament, as a beleaguered activist bewailing the injustice of Maldivian politics.He relinquished his presidency in a brief press conference on February 7th a performance forced on him at gunpoint, he later said.

She noted that she had spent the morning (it was September 11th) at Ground Zero in New York, where the names of those who died in the twin towers were read out in the rain, before bewailing Mr Bush's response to that attack.Osama bin Laden is still on our screens taunting us, she said, and the Taliban are resurgent in Afghanistan.

Independent thinking In your eyes Playing soft or hard cop Reprints Related items Iran and nuclear diplomacy: Igor's turnNov 17th 2005Andrei Illarionov, a maverick liberal economic adviser to Mr Putin who finally resigned in December, bewailing a decline in political and economic freedom, identifies the start of the Yukos affair in July 2003 as a key turning-point.

All day the stage had seen a succession of grey-haired white men bewailing an America in which Christians are under siege from such foes as leftists, atheists and gays.

Lament for the Destruction of Ur, ancient Sumerian composition bewailing the collapse of the 3rd Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 c. 2004 bc) in southern Mesopotamia.

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Its foes rejoice; its allies bewail their perceived abandonment.Iraq's leader, Nuri al-Maliki, is chummier with Iran than America.

Employers have bewailed the growing regulation of the American workplace.Despite the three decisions this week, the expansion of protections is not over yet.

An unelected politician bewails the vote of a democratic country, but refuses to do the one thing that would immediately give legitimacy to his position and guarantee that citizens would reconnect with the EU: accept the referendum result.James NobleOxfordSIR – Your article on the European Commission's quest for public understanding was jokingly headlined "Heart attack?

Recent books on oil have bewailed the threat.

During the 1997 election, New Labour lamented 18 "wasted" years of Tory government and bewailed "savage cuts" in public services.

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