Others in the region may yet draw lamentable conclusions from that.
While criticism can do this when it's not looking, it can get lamentable results from trying too hard.
There had been concern about continuing with the old Nimrods, so a Nimrod Safety Case was prepared between 2001 and 2005, involving the manufacturers BAE, the analysts from Qinetiq (a former government research agency), and signed off by the MoD – of which Haddon-Cave said: "The safety case was a lamentable job from start to finish.
The recent release of "The Runaways" and the impending opening of "Who Do You Love," the story of Leonard Chess — the Chicago impresario whose record label put Muddy Waters on the musical map and vice versa — remind me of the lamentable absence from the DVD market of the movie that is the best of the rock-revival movies I've seen, "American Hot Wax," from 1978.
Charles Hasked-Cave QC, asked by Des Browne, the then defence secretary, to investigate the Nimrod's long and troubled history, describes the way the "safety case" carried out between 2001 and 2005 – intended to identify potential problems – was "a lamentable job from start to finish".
Had Ravi's finger gone up, England would have been 102 for eight and, one might suggest, significantly less likely to have scored as many as the 40 runs that turned their total from lamentable to competitive in the space of 16 deliveries, as Moeen and has partner David Willey tore into the Afghanistan attack.
Was he lamentable for still believing that a Communist state could ultimately exist, free from the corruption which plagues all systems, to the benefit of a fair, just society?
Since 1888, it has mounted 39 productions of this "lamentable comedy", using everything from puppets to a pure white stage.
The case involves General Motors' notorious and lamentable decision to hide from the public a flaw in its ignition switches that could unexpectedly shut off engine power, with potentially lethal consequences, until several years after its bankruptcy case had concluded.
Giving judgment, Lord Justice Rose, sitting with Mr Justice Jowitt and Mr Justice Hooper, said the case was "yet another appeal arising from the lamentable history of the now disbanded West Midlands serious crime squad".
