Sentence examples for lamentable job from inspiring English sources
Where he is undoubtedly right is in arguing that corporate America has done a lamentable job of governing itself.
And he described a safety review of the ageing Nimrod MR2 carried out by the MoD in conjunction with BAE Systems and QinetiQ as a "lamentable job" which failed to identify "key dangers".
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.
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".
But then, the sort of French food that was current in those innocent days was more bistro than the sort of fancy, frilly plate decoration that has done such a lamentable public relations job for the reputation of la cuisine française.
They are likely to discuss it at their summit in Cardiff this weekend.The EU's record in choosing candidates for top jobs is lamentable, not least because names must be approved unanimously.
Vin Ray's day-by-day narration of Newsnight's lamentable McAlpine episode, which cost Entwistle his job, stands out as an excellent piece of sympathetic reporting.
It was a "wretched business" and a "lamentable" story, he said.
"That would be lamentable".
