Sentence examples for deplorable loss from inspiring English sources

Mr. Trichet, appearing before the Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, referred to "the tragic developments in Japan with the deplorable loss of human lives" and "their potential global economic and financial implications".

"I am extremely angry, dismayed and shocked upon hearing about the deplorable loss of life upon the peace flotilla, as a result of typically disproportionate and aggressive actions by the Israeli Defence Forces," he said.

Appearing before the European Parliament's economics committee, Mr. Trichet referred to "the tragic developments in Japan with the deplorable loss of human lives" and "their potential global economic and financial implications," but said "inflation in the euro area is on the rise".

They cause every year not only huge financial losses but also the deplorable loss of human lives.

An experienced and capable officer, Lipsett was popular with both his men and his superiors and his death was considered "a deplorable loss to the Division".

If France were suddenly deprived of 3,000 leading scientists, engineers, bankers, painters, poets, and writers, he argued, the result would be catastrophic, but if all the courtiers and bishops and 10,000 landowners vanished, the loss, though deplorable, would be much less severe.

Changed circumstances make that unknowable; devoted as he was to European peace, Churchill was a British imperialist, who would have considered any loss of sovereignty deplorable.

In a statement, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein called the loss of life deplorable and said a "staggering number" of injuries had been caused by live ammunition.

The loss of all these birds is deplorable for economic reasons as well as for less tangible ones.

"The president is deeply saddened by the loss of life resulting from these deplorable and cowardly attacks, and sends his condolences to the people of Uganda and the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured," he said.

So Gardenhire then pronounced it properly, and repeating the description of those seven losses made it seem twice as deplorable.