Sentence examples for pitiful state of from inspiring English sources

Looking at the pitiful state of Labour and its leader, that should make sense.

Now the Gdansk shipyard that was the cradle of Solidarity risks going bust.The pitiful state of the shipyards is not new.

Past complaints by European partners have focused on Greece's failure to guard its borders, the pitiful state of its detention centres and the treatment inflicted on asylum seekers.

But experts such as Joseph Dwyer of Management Sciences for Health, an American consultancy, say that the pitiful state of poor countries' health services is the main reason for the gap between what is promised and what is spent.

And, in her next children's-books column, she, in turn, vindicated him, lamenting the pitiful state of a literature "careful never to approach the child except in a childlike manner.

But unlike the Prince's conservative tastes in architecture, the Carbuncle Cup is not reactionary to architectural progress, but rather a reminder of the pitiful state of oversight of new architecture in Britain.

The Soviet dictator did not dare face the truth, because the Red Army was still in such a pitiful state after the purges and the neglect of his own crony, Marshal Voroshilov.

Desperate to lure the Allies into battle, Napoleon gave every indication in the days preceding the engagement that the French army was in a pitiful state, even abandoning the dominant Pratzen Heights near the village of Austerlitz.

Some NATO advisers think a genuine local government could be built up based on tribal organisations; but after decades of war the tribal system, too, is in a pitiful state, with some elders locked in conflict over land and women.Western officials are under no illusions that Afghanistan can become a 21st-century state.

Peace is holding in troubled north of the country, but the economy there remains in a pitiful state.

"We found the country in a pitiful state".