Sentence examples for lamentable to from inspiring English sources

It would be lamentable to revert to such a state.

Yet it's lamentable to see the end of an era of high-energy particle experiments in America that defined the threshold of our understanding of matter.

"It is lamentable to have to reveal", Mr Madrazo continued stoically, "that several of the current leaders of the so-called south-eastern cell were public servants of the PGR".

He catered directly to schoolboy taste by relating the awful death of Mr William Eley, who "undertook the copper-cap trade; and, lamentable to relate, was blown to atoms by an awful explosion of fulminating mercury, from which every one and every thing around him escaped with, comparatively, little injury".

Had Ravi's finger gone up, England would have been 102 for eight and, one might suggest, significantly less likely to have scored as many as the 40 runs that turned their total from lamentable to competitive in the space of 16 deliveries, as Moeen and has partner David Willey tore into the Afghanistan attack.

It was defeated; the Herald stated, "It is lamentable to see this old man, with one foot in the grave, pursuing the President with such vindictiveness".

'They showed a lamentable inability to come to terms with the business risks of their activities and to our great satisfaction that did lead them to come unstuck,' Brook says.

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.

India's willingness to open its economy in reality is in lamentable contrast to its inability to commit itself at the WTO.

The Bush administration has now provided the rationale for its lamentable decision to deny California permission to develop its own stricter rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.

Mr. Wolfe's limiting of partisan identification to Republican and Democrat is a lamentable testament to the very apathy and ignorance induced by the two-party system.