Sentence examples for was deploring from inspiring English sources

But if it was mercy he was deploring his indignation was misplaced.

But plenty of people were warning against the obvious at the time, when Jowell herself was deploring critics for a "whiff of snobbery" in their alarm about proposed new supercasinos, in which FOTBs are integral.

Turn back to any year -- say, 1988, when this page was deploring how "a pork-minded bloc of Republican senators" known as "the Long Island Eight," led by Ralph J. Marino of Muttontown, was holding a budget hostage over aid to local school districts.

When the name of Bobby Baker a Pickens, South Carolina, man who once enjoyed a friendly relationship with Senator Thurmond was hooted at Goldwater meetings (as it was everywhere except in Greenville, where delicacy prevailed and he was not mentioned), it was not because the speaker was deploring Baker's activities in business and politics.

Still, the only time the line ever brought down the house was in a bit of contextual humor last summer in Mississippi, when Mr. Bush was deploring junk lawsuits in what happened to be the junk lawsuit capital of the United States.

I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him.

The report was deplored by media critics.

The memoir caused a sensation: it was deplored because of its excess.

The decision was deplored at the time by China, which charged that it was illegal under World Trade Organization rules.

This was deplored by Weatherill, who measured it by the steady decline of the private notice question (PNQ).

A rapist was the embodiment of virility, while those who were raped were utterly abject; the aggression was deplored less than the disenfranchisement was pitied.