Sentence examples for lamentable trade from inspiring English sources
And although this is hideously unscientific and "intuitive", my sense is that there are some legs to this recovery, for all the drag of a lamentable trade performance.
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".
Repairs and maintenance by council workers were often lamentable; the paradox is that strong trade unionism among public sector workers damaged the council housing stock.
But his other evidence is much weaker: the West's failure to maintain the global nuclear non-proliferation regime; the failure to prevent genocide in Rwanda and war in the Balkans; and the failure of the Doha round of global trade-liberalisation talks.It is certainly lamentable that the nuclear non-proliferation regime has been crumbling.
Russian officials have a long list of slights: some imagined (such as NATO getting more threatening to Russia), some real (such as the American Congress's lamentable failure to repeal the Jackson-Vanik amendment that linked trade with the Soviet Union to the rights of Soviet citizens to emigrate).
However, what Levy calls "this lamentable and unwelcome dispute" does matter – a great deal.
"That would be lamentable".
