Sentence examples for shabby decision from inspiring English sources

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The Labour MP criticised the government's "shabby" decision to inform peers late last Friday about a delay in spending the cash allocated to support patients infected with hepatitis C and HIV during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Many also thought that the decision constituted very shabby treatment of Messerer, who had done more than anyone to establish the troupe's artistic credentials and was now, it seemed, going to have to play second fiddle.

But as so often with this government, it is not so much the decisions they take as the shabby manner in which they conduct their business.

But it described the decision not to invite the former prime ministers as "a shabby, divisive and deeply unwise step for the monarchy".

Mourinho is paid to make these decisions and prefers the others, none of whom are shabby, above the Spaniard.

Karl Lagerfeld's decision to use the streets of Havana as a shabby-chic theatrical backdrop for eyewateringly expensive clothes may have raised a few brows, but it has brought the chic tourists flocking.

Mr Swift said he was "shocked and astonished", describing the decision to move to a vote of no confidence as a "shabby deal that's been cooked up behind closed doors [which will] cost Calderdale dear".

But Ben Emmerson, lawyer for Litvinenko's widow Marina, described the government's treatment of his client and her family as "shabby" and showing "utter contempt" and said he was confident senior high court judges would overturn the decision.

But Maria Eagle, Labour's shadow environment secretary, welcomed the decision by the SNP to help force the government to back down, describing the proposals on the table as "shabby".

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