He points to DaimlerChrysler, Germany's biggest company, whose boss, Jürgen Schrempp, remains at the helm despite the company's lamentable performance over the past three years.
I'm really excited about this one, even if – as my lamentable fumbling over the pronunciation in the video above demonstrates – I hadn't heard of the book before this week.
In Malaysia, there has been a long and lamentable legal battle over the issue, as Muslims with high-level official support lobby to prevent Christians from addressing Allah.
Griffin's subjectivist position, and the suggestion that even insects such as honeybees are conscious, seemed to many scientists to represent a lamentable return to the anthropomorphic over-interpretation of anecdotes seen in Darwin and Romanes.
In winding up speeches to the Paddington crash inquiry, counsel for the victims said the company presided over "a lamentable picture of inertia, ineptitude and incompetence".It is not just Railtrack's reputation that is at stake.
In Brazil, an increase in transportation fares set off street protests in June, leading to broad demonstrations over corruption and lamentable public services.
A Financial Times article from 2013 described the performance of international oil and gas companies as "lamentable from a shareholder perspective" over the last decade.
Baird, Northumbria's police and crime commissioner, said the IPCC's performance over Orgreave appeared so lamentable that she would rate its scoping assessment at "two-and-a-quarter" out of 10.
On Sunday, Northumbria's police and crime commissioner Vera Baird told the Observer the IPCC's performance over Orgreave appeared so lamentable that she would rate its scoping assessment at "two-and-a-quarter" out of 10. "The IPCC is running out of time for trust to be sustained.
The lawyer, who told her superiors that an invasion without UN sanction would be a "crime of aggression" when she quit a few days before the invasion, said today that the way ministers handled the legal arguments over the war was "lamentable".
