Sentence examples similar to deplorable tradition from inspiring English sources

Dominance, dominion, colonization, these are the deplorable traditions of power established by Western civilization.

I suggest, in the finest American tradition, we protest this absurd and deplorable act by smashing our cuckoo clocks, pawning our Swiss watches, and banning Swiss cheese and chocolate.

Rather, Abu Sayyaf, as deplorable as it might be, springs from the local tradition of banditry and piracy.Furthermore, the Sulu islands, even more than Basilan, boast a huge number of separatist groups and Islamic militants, some of which have negotiated, or are in the process of negotiating, truces with the government.

Unfortunately, the working conditions in these South Asian tea plantations were deplorable, creating a stark contrast with the tea drinking tradition that had emerged among the British elite in Victorian England.

If one already possessed an incontestable version of the truth, all these deviations could be seen as deplorable -- comparable, perhaps, to "wild analysis" in the Freudian tradition.

It laid the foundation of a literary and historiographical tradition that often depicted the Earl as the Machiavellian "master courtier" and as a deplorable figure around Elizabeth I.

Deplorable scenes.

This is deplorable.

"I find it deplorable.

That's deplorable.

Sexual harassment is deplorable.