Sentence examples for deplores- from inspiring English sources

Mr Clegg says, quite rightly, that he deplores such a referendum.

The doctor deplores the current restrictive legal framework in Morocco.

While the BUAV deplores personal threats by any individuals, rejection of intimidation shouldn't justify an "open season" that permits any suffering for human knowledge.

Ten!?!Dominic Hill, the new artistic director of the Traverse Theatre, the main home of serious drama at the Fringe, deplores this sort of bulk reviewing: how can you possibly appreciate any show when ten minutes before curtain your mind is wandering to transit strategies for the next one?He has a point.

As he describes it, early Islamic lore (whose precedents can't be ignored) is overwhelmingly concerned with the avoidance of fitna, a term that can mean many undesirable things from sedition to confusion to war or anarchy; Islam deplores (though you can argue about how severely it seeks to punish) any kind of speech that leads to or in itself amounts to fitna.

But some Muslims in the West, a loud and therefore disproportionately audible minority, continue to speak for the fundamentalists, explaining and even trying to justify the crimes of September 11th.It is crucial that the moderate Muslim majority deplores those views out loud, and publicly repudiates the people who espouse them.

The convention that an American should run the bank while a European runs the International Monetary Fund, is exactly the sort of unmeritocratic horse-trading that both the fund and the bank deplore in developing countries (and Mr Bush deplores at the UN).

But he deplores what he calls "histo-tainment" and "faction-creep", and considers "completely corrupting" the tendency of a Wikipedia age to shape the truth to its own ends, and to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction.

If he did, Italy's role in the world might be at the centre of the debate.Mr Prodi's document, entitled "Europe: the dream; the choices", depicts a peace-oriented foreign policy as inherently European and deplores the emergence of America as lone superpower.

(Why is it easier for a Quaker to avoid combat duty as a conscientious objector than someone who simply deplores violence?) Furthermore, the argument goes, any positive aspects of religion can be replaced by equally beneficial non-religious substitutes.As a prelude to these contestable claims, Mr Dawkins examines the interesting question of why religion is so widespread.

Roused from its old cold-war pacifism by the prospect of a rising China and an increasingly hostile, nuclear-armed North Korea, Japan has been moving rapidly to upgrade its security alliance with America, including by working on missile defences that China deplores.