Sentence examples for lamentably long from inspiring English sources
The list is lamentably long: Mr. Mobutu in Zaire, Samuel Doe in Liberia, Gafaar al-Nimeiry in Sudan, Mohammed Siad Barre in Somalia and the Angolan rebel Jonas Savimbi, who now perpetuates a pointless war with the benefit of diamond smuggling revenue.
The lamentably long catalog of crimes against humanity in this century should make even jaded diplomats recognize that without the U.S. taking a forceful, clear-cut lead — a lead based on a firm sense of what is right and wrong — the response to that dreadful question remains: It can happen again.
TRT was being prosecuted for this before the coup, and the case is almost certain to be revived.The second party, the Democrats, under their well-liked but ineffectual leader, Abhisit Vejjajiva, have performed lamentably during Thailand's long crisis.
This stage, lamentably and predictably, did not last long.
Suddenly, extra money was found for dicretionary domestic spending; and, more lamentably, two small but sound proposals for long-term structural reforms were struck from the negotiators' lists.The first was a suggested per capita limit for Medicaid, the federal/state health programme for the poor.
The sweetness of the butternut squash stuffing in cappellaci di zucca was offset by slices of prosciutto, but the edges of the filled pastas were lamentably dry; presumably the plate had tarried too long in the kitchen.
"Lamentably, North Korea never really changed," said one senior Western official here with long experience in the topic.
Short answer: lamentably.
Congo had become a lamentably failed state.
"Lamentably," Mr. Gaspar said, "luck eluded him".
