The Great Exhibition of 1851 confirmed that Britain led the world in manufacture, but the country trailed lamentably in the technologies of regicide.
One's best ideas seldom play up in practice to one's expectations, especially in gardening, where everything looks so well on paper and in the catalogues, but fails so lamentably in fulfilment after you have tucked your plans into the soil.
Loth simply to ram reform (pensions are only the start) down the throats of an unprepared citizenry, Mr Raffarin has proved politically cannier than the last centre-right prime minister, Alain Juppé, who failed lamentably in 1995 when he tried to do so.
In an article of mine that ran in your Jan . 12thissue, under the heading THE WAYWARD PRESS, El Universal Grafico, an independent afternoon daily published in Mexico City, was erroneously and lamentably incouded in a list of foreign-language publications with Communist sympathies.
By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, January 26 , 1952P. 55 In an article of mine that ran in your Jan . 12thissue, under the heading THE WAYWARD PRESS, El Universal Grafico, an independent afternoon daily published in Mexico City, was erroneously and lamentably incouded in a list of foreign-language publications with Communist sympathies.
In 1923, Clark Wissler, who curated the A.M.N.H. anthropology collection under Osborn, wrote, "We are strong in anatomical collections from the American Indians, but are lamentably weak in such collections from other parts of the world, especially from the more primitive races".
Dr Shuja Shafi, deputy secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said while the FSA had been swift in acting on the horse meat issue, it had been "lamentably slow in acting on halal meat regulation".
Farmer suicides are lamentably common in India.
But it has been lamentably slow in actually applying this scheme.
Ironically, Britain's finance minister, Gordon Brown (lamentably quiet in the current row), cut the tax attractions of shares when he first came into office, hoping to encourage listed companies to invest their excess profits rather than paying out dividends.
As has happened lamentably often in Bangladesh, democratic dialogue may now give way to the politics of the street.In this section Testing times A modest proposal Sino things to come?
