Sentence examples for deplorable standard from inspiring English sources

"As things stand, Bernheimer's continued crabby backbiting — as well as the generally deplorable standard of music criticism hereabouts — had a demoralizing, depressing effect not only on the members of the Philharmonic and its senior administrative staff, but also on many distinguished musicians who visit here," he wrote in a letter printed in The Los Angeles Times in 1977.

Such a rising tide might help lift all boats by raising the quality of our food supply in all of its public incarnations and lifting the currently rather deplorable standard of our national health.

Governing over them all was a regime of extreme brazenness and corruption — even by the deplorable standards of the post-Soviet world.

Reconciliation, he says, should involve practical measures, like giving money to help lift aborigines' deplorable health standards and put more of them into schools and jobs.

Voter participation — which sagged to sixty-one per cent in 2005 (judged deplorable by British standards) — seems likely to go back to the seventy-per-cent mark of the 1997 election.

Because the verdict of these elites is that a broad swath of the Republican Party is morally blind, intolerably biased and deplorable, at least by their standards.

That is, by any standard, an extraordinary and deplorable situation.

The dogs are usually born in deplorable conditions, where hygiene and disease control standards are non-existent and mistreatment of both the puppies and their mothers is commonplace.

By the standards of Versailles (which were admittedly deplorable), she was a loyal consort, a besotted mother, and a virtuous enough wife.

Mr. Panetta told the Afghan leader that "the conduct depicted in the footage is utterly deplorable, and that it does not reflect the standards or values American troops are sworn to uphold," said George Little, the Pentagon spokesman.

It is a double standard because we have close relationships with many countries with deplorable human rights records like China, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.