Sentence examples for poor consolation for from inspiring English sources

Kom and Adams have bronze by right; it would be poor consolation for defeat for either of them.

The human damage is so great that even justice seems a poor consolation for what Iraqis truly need.

For Wigan, appearing at Wembley would be a poor consolation for the loss of the Premier League place they have fought so hard to preserve.

When Heath unexpectedly won the 1970 election, he made Braine deputy chairman of the commonwealth parliamentary association, with an automatic knighthood after two years - but it was poor consolation for no ministerial post.

That is poor consolation for Alastair Wilson however.

Such statistics were poor consolation for a company wracked by financial and managerial strife two years ago.

Hull pair Tom Briscoe and Ben Crooks crossed for late consolation tries.

That, of course, is small consolation for Canada.

As a small consolation for their poor performance, accommodation and board will be complimentary.

A week to remove all the coal and metal dust and chaff and smoke from their lungs and to be a consolation for their perpetual poor health, the chest diseases they would eventually inherit and often die from, the shoddy eyesight, swollen arthritic fingers, allergies, calluses, deafness, all the squalid cousins of their trade.

But that is scant consolation for Egypt's poorest, many of whom blame his government's incompetence for a marked fall in living standards.