Sentence examples for has lamentably failed from inspiring English sources

It has lamentably failed to understand Israel's sensitivities over past efforts to retrieve captives from Arab hands.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who will end his second term in 2014, has lamentably failed to grapple with all the old problems of awful infrastructure, foot-dragging bureaucrats, rampant corruption and ill-organised political decentralisation.

Part of the explanation is that Europe's economy has shifted towards services, which are intrinsically less tradable than goods, and which the EU has lamentably failed to liberalise properly.

Secondly, there's been failure across the political establishment: while the coalition has diverted popular anger on to Labour and blamed bloated public spending for our financial woes, Labour has lamentably failed to put its head above the parapet.

But Mr Monti also began to do something his predecessor had lamentably failed at: promote growth in sluggish Italy.

In an act entirely in keeping with what went on in the previous 85 minutes, Mohsni made a mess of it, his header flying over and into the Rangers fans behind the goal he had so lamentably failed to trouble.

Congo had become a lamentably failed state.

But even that could not undermine Leinster's momentum as the Blues lamentably failed to take advantage of the lock's absence.

The commission set up by the FA chairman, Greg Dyke, at the start of this television cycle in 2013, promising to challenge the overseas-owned and managed Premier League clubs about their commitment to playing English talent, lamentably failed to ask the difficult questions, and now has its answer.

Having made a fine speech to the Arabs in Cairo early in his presidency, Mr Obama then lamentably failed to go to Jerusalem to persuade the Israelis of their need to strike a deal with the Palestinians.

The two sides lamentably failed to resolve a lingering and potentially dangerous dispute over gas resources in the East China Sea.