Sentence examples for described deplorable from inspiring English sources

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She had listened as women and girls described deplorable treatment, including a 13-year-old who told of watching her older sister jump to her death out a window rather than live under the regime.

In a text message, Kalin Hill, of Houston, described deplorable conditions over the past few days.

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Published in periodicals devoted to child welfare, his images of child laborers, illustrating articles describing deplorable working conditions, did much to arouse awareness of and action to improve conditions for underage workers.

The study's results, described as "deplorable" by one senior conservationist, were published by Scottish Natural Heritage.

"Plainly, the events that have been described are deplorable," said Hession.

Conditions in the centres are described as deplorable, and protests and riots are commonplace.

Morrissey, an ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), described the deplorable scenes he witnessed as "the challenge of our age" and urged European leaders to deal with the growing humanitarian crisis by offering "meaningful and credible alternatives" such as resettling migrants.

The jokes were described as "deplorable" by the Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, which said they offended "the sentiments of believers and the memory of the six million victims of the Shoah".

He described as "deplorable" the actions of a former senior civil rights lawyer, Bradley Schlozman, who was found in a department report this week to have hired 63 lawyers with conservative credentials.

Then in January, officials found five Salvadoran children being kept in what they described as deplorable conditions in a safe house outside Mexico City, and another handful of children at the airport in Tijuana.

The most recent example was last spring when five children living near Sagle, about 17 miles east of here, staged a brief armed standoff with the local police who had come to rescue them from what the authorities described as deplorable living conditions.

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