Sentence examples for was generally deplored from inspiring English sources

In Britain, the war was generally deplored.

Big money-making was generally deplored as a semi-criminal racket, although modest affluence was craved and the consumer culture began to blossom.

Parties were generally deplored as inimical to republican government, and President George Washington was able to exercise nonpartisan leadership during the first few years of the new government (begun in 1789).

Sullivan's view is that although deception is part of life, it is generally to be deplored.

In fact, one can be generally "pro-Israel" and still deplore the Netanyahu government's conduct for the simple fact that it will likely provoke further attacks on Israel, and further jeopardize the well being of ordinary Israeli citizens, who, like most Palestinians, simply wish to live their lives in peace.

It will mean the temporary death of democracy in Chile, and that is to be deplored.

Thus, a lack of flexibility is to be deplored.

Back home, anything radical, disruptive, or potentially violent is to be deplored.

That is generally true.

Aristotle and Cicero would deplore what they construed as this abolition of private property, and even those following and radicalizing Plato on property (advocating the abolition of property for all the citizens, rather than only deprivation of it for the rulers, as would the sixteenth-century More), were generally opposed to if not scandalized by the suggestion of procreative communism.

Consumers are generally smart.