Sentence examples for lamentably of from inspiring English sources

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There is talk of yet more pruning of tax exemptions, and possibly a new tax on "extravagant" incomes though not, lamentably, of reversing a daft reduction in value-added tax for restaurants that costs the state €2.4 billion ($3.5 billion) a year.

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To a producer who felt that the story was dirty, because the price set on the woman's virtue was so low, Caspary retorted, "Do you think a whore who gets fifty dollars is morally superior to one who gets five?" Caspary's memoir, "The Secrets of Grown-Ups," published in 1979 and lamentably out of print, is full of such anecdotes.

Copyright law is lamentably out of date, so the amount of money the writer gets is often a small fraction of what the record company get.

situation had got so lamentably out of control, but the whole spectacle could be viewed as one more chapter in the evolving and sometimes uneasy relationship between art and the academy in America.

But "Child Star" — published twenty-five yeago and, and lamentably out of print — doesn't register as an autobiography so much as a little-girl classic that ought to be shelved alongside "Anne of Green Gables," "Little Women," and Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The Bank of England's monitoring of Project Merlin fell lamentably short of providing any meaningful clarity or analysis.

This is all the more ironic since the practice of contemporary Muslim states, not to mention extra-state groups and actors, falls lamentably short of those expectations as well as of current standards of tolerance set by the secular West".

It was made possible, against great odds, by the inspired pragmatism of Zionist leaders, who accepted anything they were offered, even if it fell lamentably short of what was required, and did not allow themselves to be boxed in by ideology.

It's just that their damndest was lamentably short of the mark.

On the other, he has recorded his political campaign for the 1990 Peruvian presidency in A Fish in the Water, and drawn heavily and explicitly on his own amorous adventures - lamentably for In Praise of the Stepmother and The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto; legendarily for Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, one of his earliest and most accomplished achievements.

The lamentably increasing numbers of sudden deaths or suicides in the course of work is "just" a further – but the worst and most radical – form of denying and leaving a system which is unwilling to accept different ideas, learning from mistakes and questioning the day-to-day course of the system.

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