And it described as "lamentable" a safety review that the Defense Ministry and the contractors conducted a year before the Nimrod crash.
While regularly reminding us (and maybe himself) of Churchill's greatness, Hastings describes one lamentable mistake after another.
"The use of nor'easter to describe a northeast storm is a pretentious and altogether lamentable affectation, the odious, even loathsome, practice of landlubbers who would be seen as salty as the sea itself".
And he described a safety review of the ageing Nimrod MR2 carried out by the MoD in conjunction with BAE Systems and QinetiQ as a "lamentable job" which failed to identify "key dangers".
Early on in her book, the author describes some perhaps lamentable scenes at an Armenian summer camp in Massachusetts run by the nationalist Tashnag party.
As an adult, he remembered Edward Alleyn's Tamburlaine, "stalking" the stage like "spindle-shank spiders" on a ceiling; described the "lamentable action of one arm" of "old Titus Andronicus"; imagined "each ale-brewer" re-enacting "the Jew of Malta".
Via simulations, those authors demonstrated that across a broad class of plausible situations, should the trial terminate after less than 16 patients, then the probability of correctly identifying the MTD would rarely exceed 20%, a performance that can only be described as lamentable.
Instead, in what high court judges described as "lamentable" behaviour and serious breaches of its duty of candour, the MoD mounted an unnecessary cover-up, even claiming that documents previously made public were secret.
Mr Ruto's lawyer Karim Khan described the prosecution's case as "a lamentable shambles" and "parody of justice".
The Telegraph described her record on parliamentary expenses as saintly.In this section Going postal A lamentable legacy Cold feet Out with the old and the not-so-old Night-time at the museum ReprintsHalf of those stepping down came to power with Tony Blair in 1997; there seems to be unusual attrition among his higher-flying acolytes from the reforming wing of the Labour Party.
This awful event was described in the quaint "Old English" title given to a contemporary engraving depicting the burning as: "A lamentable spectacle of three women, with a child infant brasting out of the Mothers Wombe, being first taken out of the fire, and cast in agayne, and so all burned together in the Isle of Guernsey, 1556 July 18".
