Sentence examples for pity mr from inspiring English sources

It is a pity Mr Duff begs his question by saying that a "centralised superstate" represents "an over-centralisation of power", thereby short-cutting any discussion of what degree of centralisation might be necessary or desirable in conditions of monetary union.

It really is a pity, Mr President, that the chairman of the Convention is appointed by the Council.

It is a great pity, Mrs McAllister sometimes reflects, that she should have fallen victim to the great unwritten law of child-rearing: that you can raise, clothe and educate your offspring as you wish, but you cannot choose their friends.

Sparing her crippled daughter anything so warm as pity, Mrs Whiting runs the townspeople's lives from her pretentious hacienda, and rarely for the better.Enter middle-aged Miles Roby, a nice guy who might have made something of himself but was lured from college back to Empire Falls to nurse his dying mother, then enticed to stay and run the struggling Empire Grill by its owner, Mrs Whiting.

His defenders say it is a pity Mr Obama did not heed his chief of staff's warnings against overreach.

It's a pity that Mr Darling does not add much to our understanding about what went wrong in the decade when Mr Brown was at the Treasury and the going was too easy.

A pity, in Mr Wiltse's nostalgic view.

That is a pity for Mr Miliband, since the results also reveal deep discontent with David Cameron's Britain.

And it is a pity, because Mr Cornwell, a professional historian, thoughtful Catholic and vivid writer, has a solid case that he spoils by intemperance.

He has governed a state, he knows about foreign policy and he oozes confidence; it would be a pity if Mr Huntsman did not run.

The pity of Mr Najib is that a well-intentioned man has reformed just enough to alienate his own party and too little to convince the centre ground.