Sentence examples for lamentable position of from inspiring English sources

The some $70 million recently slashed by Congress from the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for the New Orleans district reveals the lamentable position of our present commitment.

In considering the lamentable chronicle of the "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch — which was positioned to be this year's final tabloid preoccupation until Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault — it's been hard to know where to let one's sense of appalled fascination come to rest.

It's a lamentable rate of failure.

Next, he discussed the lamentable quality of digital music.

One cause of this was Labour's lamentable stewardship of Scotland's new government.

New York's lamentable record of corruption makes this a sensible precaution.

It was far from the most lamentable moment of my life.

And there were lamentable cases of self-destruction, as with the pathbreaking alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Last month she infuriated Latvia's judges with an attack on the lamentable state of justice.

Contradiction, even hypocrisy, seems to be a lamentable trait of mammoth publishers.

We get a lamentable amount of authoritarian police state infrastructure and activity.