Sentence examples for get lamentable from inspiring English sources

While criticism can do this when it's not looking, it can get lamentable results from trying too hard.

We get a lamentable amount of authoritarian police state infrastructure and activity.

Others in the region may yet draw lamentable conclusions from that.

Indigenous 1 Australians experience lamentable rates of death and disease.

Labour ministers have a collective responsibility for the government's lamentable failure to get our message across.

"The recession is not the excuse to row back on public-service reforms... lamentable failure to get our message across... YouTube if you want to... [on the Gurkhas] we put ourselves on the wrong side of the British sense of fair play".

She has appeared to be drunk onstage, barely able to get through a song, and after a lamentable concert in Britain she canceled her fall tour there, stating, "I can't give it my all onstage without my Blake" — her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, who is in jail for perverting the cause of justice after a bar brawl.

I think it is lamentable it has taken so long to get that, but it is extremely welcome that we have managed to achieve it.

And if it was a shame that few people went there yesterday, it was arguably even more lamentable that those who did go could not get in.

It's a subtle yet important distinction you guys need to get with, and the first step in you guys overcoming your lamentable Islamophobia.

The most unfortunate outcome of another lamentable piece of officiating is that the headlines will today get in the way of a good story – that of the 37-year-old Paul Scholes, whose fine performance was capped by one of those 25-yard strikes which he made his trademark when he stopped popping up inside penalty areas.