Sentence examples for lamentable result from inspiring English sources

Scratch the surface, however, and in almost every respect this was a lamentable result for the ruling coalition, its worst ever.

One lamentable result of all this is that some of Turkey's best known commentators and television presenters have been fired for trying to raise issues the government would prefer to keep under the carpet.

While criticism can do this when it's not looking, it can get lamentable results from trying too hard.

Thus, Royal Mail and British Airways both failed to capitalise, with today's lamentable results, on early transfor mation by people-based total quality management.

Why he should wish to do so is beyond me, but on no fewer than seven occasions, and with lamentable results each time, Haddon takes on the mighty Horace.

So many slow and steady agencies all tending to produce a fall of price were then operating, that the addition of a single one of a striking nature might have produced lamentable results.

Stick and carrot produce the same lamentable results.

Some scrolls were simply hacked apart with a butcher's knife - with predictable and lamentable results.

Olga Yermolina, sports correspondent for liberal daily Moskovskiye Novosti, said it was a general "inattention to detail" that had led to the "lamentable results".

When Marvin Hamlisch auditioned for the Juilliard School of Music, he played not Chopin or Mozart but the American folk standard "Goodnight, Irene," a choice that could have had lamentable results for any other prospective student.

That inspired a Ben Protess puff piece in the New York Times Dealbook page that reads like a regulatory Fifty Shades of Gray -- call it Fifty Shades of Gray Pinstripe -- with Khuzami as the "dominant" and the rest of us as "submissives.' We're told that Khuzami is "an imposing presence with a piercing stare," an effect he tries to replicate for the camera with lamentable results.