Sentence examples for lamentable state from inspiring English sources

And Germany's retail sector was in a lamentable state.

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

To call for an effort to change that lamentable state of affairs was inspiring and surely correct.

Examining how those choices were made is crucial to understanding how we've arrived at our current, lamentable state.

In 1998, a team of United Nations oil experts concluded that Iraq's oil industry was in a "lamentable state," with an urgent need for new equipment.

Lukashenka rearranged the cabinet in July, blaming Prime Minister Henadz Navitski for the lamentable state of agriculture and food supply and replacing him and two other ministers.

If the Court does not recognize and act on this insight, it will continue to undermine its standing with the public and provide a lamentable model for state and local judges across the country to do the same.

Given the lamentable history of state intervention in business, they say, this does not bode well.Such fears are not easily dismissed, if only because what is happening is so new that there is not much evidence either way.

Here Mr Schwarzenegger stands on the side of the angels against the public-sector unions; indeed, his reforms should be tougher.For instance, given the lamentable condition of the state's schools, is it really so heinous to support an initiative to force teachers to work for five years, not two, before they become virtually unsackable?

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

The tripling of Indian groundwater use since 1965 has been stimulated not just by growing demand for food but also by the lamentable public service provided by state governments and the relative cheapness and convenience of a private tubewell.