While such lamentable conditions are seen in a number of countries, there are other countries (or states within countries) that, as has already been discussed, demonstrate the rewards of having a functioning universal public healthcare system – with better health achievements and also larger development of human capabilities.
"We have a recession, and while that's lamentable, it makes the inflation numbers old news".
While it is lamentable that your fan broke after the guarantee's expiration, that does not justify this petty deceit.
Judges sitting at the High Court in London said the investigations into the three officers had been "lamentable" while also criticising the former deputy chair of the IPCC, Deborah Glass, for showing an "apparent bias" over the case.
To no one's surprise a caricature of the author was on the cover of the new edition of Charlie Hebdo ("in 2015 I lose my teeth. In 2022, I will do Ramadan"), while Houellebecq himself, bored, saturnine, dentally lamentable, did the rounds of the morning radio and TV shows.
But while the lack of a historical perspective is lamentable, there's little one can do about subjectivity in these lists.
He is determined not to repeat Yasser Arafat's lamentable mistake of accepting peace with Israel while taking on trust the amount of land to be given back.Israelis, for their part, feel no goodwill towards Syria: Mr Assad and his acid-tongued foreign minister, Farouk Sharaa, have seen to that.
But it has been scarred by massive corruption scandals, while the military's performance against Boko Haram has been lamentable – not least the failure to recover the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last year by the terrorist group.
The Rev. Jorge Oesterheld, a spokesman for the Argentine Conference of Bishops, said that while the case was painful because it involves "shameful and lamentable acts," the Argentine church "has no jurisdiction over this matter".
While criticism can do this when it's not looking, it can get lamentable results from trying too hard.
