Sentence examples for lamentable effort from inspiring English sources

This lamentable effort is assuredly not it.

Please assure me that The Times did not pay Lovenheim for that lamentable effort.

Like his namesake Joe, Carlton Cole has not got a history of taking penalties and produced one of the more lamentable efforts you'll ever see on Saturday.

In one sense it's cheering that, despite the lamentable efforts of a certain Sunday newspaper to destroy Tulisa as both a celebrity and human being, she is storming ahead with her plan for world domination.

And the voice careens crazily, from a just-the-facts tone to awkwardly elevated diction (there are no homes in this book, only "domiciles") to lamentable efforts to introduce local color (the "ragamuffins" who "do-si-do" around the place until they need to "vamoose").

In a nation that has seen its hopes for prosperity fade like the luster of a rusting coin, this struggling town in the country's Copperbelt has suffered more than most at the hands of copper's cascading fortunes and government's lamentable efforts to manage the nation's most precious natural resource.

You reported (Nov. 28) that Prof. Yehoshua Porath, Israel's outstanding scholar of Palestinian nationalism, described "From Time Immemorial" as "a sheer forgery". Dayar, the Israeli Labor Party daily, compared the book to some of Israel's more lamentable past propaganda efforts.

His intervention came too late to prevent publication of marks for the squad's individual efforts during a lamentable World Cup campaign.