Sentence examples for deplored not from inspiring English sources

Thus, bills of attainder have generally been deplored not only because they deprived the accused of a fair trial but also because of their typically ex post facto quality.

And when political activists urge such ugly tactics on their supporters they, too, are merely displaying their willingness to adopt gutter tactics, and their low cunning should be deplored, not encouraged.

Corbyn must give a speech deploring not just "all forms of racism" but the particular horror of hatred of Jews.

He has deplored segregation, not desegregation.

Yet Tony never emulated Adrian, and was guilty of the pose Adrian deplored: pretending not to care.

She's blamed for being neglectful when her nephews go missing, she's tacitly deplored for not having children herself by her sister, and is lectured by a rugged Chris Pratt for being too uptight.

"Utopian political doctrines are to be deplored, and not only because of their unattainability; in practice they will have worse effects than those more conservative and cautious," Kristol wrote (under his Trotskyist party name, William Ferry) in one of his first published essays in 1943.

Eviatar, and others who monitor these issues, deplore not only the deaths of innocent people but also the government secrecy that has worsened significantly over the past year.

Local groups have held panel discussions in which participants have called New Canaan the "Mecca of Modernism" and deplored the not-so-gradual extinction of the town's midcentury treasures.

"What I deplore is not Caruso's voice, which was sonically opulent," he said, "but that he had relatively little musical nuance and variety of dynamics.

What I am deploring is not fallibility but fickleness; the lack of commitment to anything, from an ideal to a person, the lack of appropriate weighting given to words, that is celebrated as personal freedom.