Independent retailers are gaining ground in burgeoning markets such as organic food, where their sales jumped by 43% in the year to November.However lamentable the loss of local identity, on the obvious measures, customers are better off.
He identified MoD, BAE Systems and the defence firm, QinetiQ, brought in as an independent adviser, as all culpable for their parts in a "lamentable" safety review, completed a year before the crash that had missed "serious design flaws".
However, Newsquest's track record on returning calls and emails from journalists for several years has been lamentable.
The devastating 586-page report, published amid apologies from the government and dismay from families of the lost men, suggests the aircraft was doomed years earlier by lamentable and systemic failings on the part of senior individuals and leading corporations, compounded by the MoD sacrificing safety to cut costs.
She saw in him a threat to every forward step that women have taken in Mexico, a threat so large and dangerous that, unlike all the other left-wingers with whom I spoke, she said that six more years of a lamentable PRI dictatorship would suit her better than a wild experiment with Vicente Fox as president.
From its premiere on ABC in 1959 to its lamentable demise on NBC five years later (as "The Bullwinkle Show"), the show chronicled the adventures of a rodent named Rocky with a soft rasp of a voice, a goggled aviator cap and a penchant for collecting nuts: foremost, Bullwinkle, the walleyed, muddle-minded moose.
I am delighted that twenty-six of the propositions that went to conciliation have been accepted, particularly given the rather lamentable history and the two years' delay in the previous Parliament when this issue was locked up in the Council.
It's possible, verging on probable, that some of the lamentable five-to-four decisions of the past twenty years would have turned out differently.
Mr Wilson says he wants to see what difference this investment has made: for example, whether it has improved California's lamentable ranking in reading scores of ten-year-olds, in which it tied with Louisiana as the country's worst.
Even as the West's soldiers make progress, its diplomats bang their heads against the lamentable administration of Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai.After years of losing ground to insurgents, General David Petraeus, the NATO commander in the country, says that the coalition has at last "got the 'inputs' right in Afghanistan for the first time".
