Sentence examples for were deplored from inspiring English sources

All of them caught on with young people and were deplored by their parents.

His words were deplored by secularists (who probably wouldn't vote for him anyway) and welcomed by Hindus and Muslims.

Although the Athenian writer Isocrates hailed him as a champion of Hellenism, the brutality of Dionysius' conquests made him unpopular in Greece, and his literary pretensions were deplored.

In video interviews that preceded each performance, and in program notes, opera was described as the ultimate medium for musical exploration, and conservative gatekeepers were deplored.

Liberal "New York values" were deplored by Cruz, while Florida senator Marco Rubio vowed to start sending more terrorist suspects to Guantánamo Bay.

The regulations, devised by the health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, ostensibly to focus on violations that he believed resulted in illness, were deplored by restaurant owners across the city, who argued that the penalties were excessive and did not help owners learn how to correct the problems.

Parties that only weeks ago were deploring the neo-fascist Golden Dawn have called it an "assault on democracy".

The loss of human potential is always an outcome to be deplored, but it is, we argue, especially deplorable when women leave the STEM community.

Boat-rocking is deplored.

The report was deplored by media critics.

These continued occupations are, and should be, deplored.