Sentence examples for has been lamentable from inspiring English sources

Here, India's policy has been lamentable.

The progress on exports has been lamentable.

His silence on the expulsions has been lamentable.

Mr Mbeki's response to the AIDS catastrophe has been lamentable.

The performance of the ICC has been lamentable.

The police's record in catching fraudsters and cybercriminals has been lamentable.

Efforts at education and prevention have been lamentable, an omission for which the ANC has no excuse.

"Europe's efforts to address this colossal refugee crisis have been lamentable," said Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who chairs the home affairs committee, after a year-long investigation.

Amid signs that Downing Street officials were distancing David Cameron from his Health Secretary, sources suggested that Andrew Lansley, right, had been lamentable in trying to explain the purpose of his reforms.

"This ruling should cause the UK committee on safety of medicines, the medicines control agency and the US food and drug administration to fundamentally rethink their warning policies - which to date have been lamentable," he said.

That doesn't deny that Britain has a curious hollowness to it – its traditions of empire, war and monarchy are all problematic – and successive politicians' attempts to redefine it have been lamentable.