Sentence examples for pitiful for from inspiring English sources
But Mr. Lautenberg said it was "pitiful" for Mr. Torricelli to publicly urge Mr. Gore to concede at a time when the election had not yet been decided.
He did tell me that he was paid something pitiful for the first St Trinian's movies featuring Alastair Sim and all those old stars.
A defeat by Liu in the Olympics would leave all of China feeling "regretful and pitiful" for him, but appreciative of his past accomplishments, Zhou said, speaking through an interpreter.
A six-page monthly financial statement for Deir ez-Zor province for January 2015 shows total monthly revenue was $8.4m£5.6m6m) – handsome for a terrorist group, but pitiful for a state.
Russia's exports mainly raw materials, basic chemicals and weapons—are pitiful for somewhere that sees itself as an advanced industrialised country.Worse, some aspects of Russia's competitiveness are deteriorating: investment in fixed assets, although up by 18% in the first nine months of the year, is not nearly enough to keep the roads, bridges, power systems and so forth from crumbling.
From the point of view of the Stalinist Soviet Union, that is where Trotsky himself is today; and he might well discard his earlier assumption that an isolated individual needs must be "pitiful" for the conviction of Dr. Stockman in Ibsen's Enemy of the People that "the strongest man is he who stands most alone".
Trulia's accuracy in the study ranges between a pitiful 9percentt for San Diego to 61percentt for Miami.
The most recent survey by Latino Decisions, a polling group, found 72% of Latino voters plumping for Mr Obama, next to a pitiful 20% for Mitt Romney (the fieldwork was conducted largely before Mr Romney's post-debate bump).
Except with rising student debts and pitiful pay for apprentices, September has become a time for brave leaps in the dark.
They began on a pitiful 44 for five but, under the September sun preyed for by head coach Karl Krikken yesterday evening, there has been decent progress made so far on day three.
