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Such a discovery might well leak: the Customs can be a deplorably leaky organisation and so can the police.
But this Speaker is a puzzle.A rather strange man in a big jobHe is a skilled (if hammy) public speaker who nonetheless denounces oratory and parliamentary eloquence as "19th-century politics" and deplorably male-centric to boot.
Deplorably the field-marshal has sanctioned the use of military tribunals to impose draconian sentences on alleged lawbreakers who have included innocuous democracy activists.Hence the urgent need for the open and speedy dispensing of proper justice for all serious offences, Mr Mubarak's trial to the fore.
Never one to mince words, he has a ready culprit: "For the most part that is a function of deplorably bad government policy".According to Mr Crandall, there are three big problems.
Critics of globalisation being what they are, one suspects the discovery that the speading web of global trade brings health and happiness to all it touches would inspire bold claims about how death gives us perspective and happiness makes us deplorably weak.
Until they started to play hardball in this way, Mr Obama had been deplorably insouciant about the medium-term picture, repeatedly failing in his budgets and his state-of-the-union speeches to offer any path to a sustainable deficit.
Women, deplorably , have been monopolising the raising of children and encouraging men to put their very lives in jeopardy by watching lots of football.
But Mr Graves is still, deplorably in their view, trying to attach monetary values to things he ought not.
Yet all are deplorably lower than those of mainstream society.Related items Italy's government: Rome v RomaMay 22nd 2008The immediate response to this (as for most of eastern Europe's ills) is to blame history.
On June 15th, a suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi uniform killed at least 23 people and injured 29 in an army mess hall in Khalis.In fact, even without killing Americans, the suicide bombers are scoring hits by ensuring that American troops remain deplorably trigger-happy, firing on many innocent motorists, and so creating more insurgents.
This is slowing, among other things, the already deplorably tardy spending of European Union money.The biggest challenge is to guard the guardians by creating a sturdy legal framework for the anti-corruption campaign.
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Deplorably primarily functions as an adverb, modifying verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to express a negative judgment or evaluation. Ludwig AI confirms its role in adding a layer of condemnation to the actions or conditions being described, as shown in the provided examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
