Sentence examples for with lamentable from inspiring English sources

Since then, it has worked relentlessly to silence support for him abroad as well as at home, with lamentable success.

It is, rather, "historical romance," Lorraine Adams says in a review, with "lamentable" prose even by that standard.

The city was in actual process of being sacked, the enemy putting the men to the sword, demolishing the fortifications, and dragging the women and children, with lamentable shrieks and cries, prisoners into the castle.

Brown's hatred of the Treasury mandarins, by definition members of an alien tribe, has destroyed this tradition with lamentable consequences for the conduct of economic policy in this country.

Why he should wish to do so is beyond me, but on no fewer than seven occasions, and with lamentable results each time, Haddon takes on the mighty Horace.

Its protagonists struggle to find some plausible account as to why Russell Group universities – with lamentable records of access and widening participation – should feel free to charge £9,000 in tuition fees, but those universities that have made real progress in drawing young people from poorer backgrounds into higher education must settle for £6,000.

Many of the best practitioners persist in operating as if drug development were simply high-risk--with lamentable consequences.

Bewailing for his lover with a lamentable whine.

With a lamentable matching rate of 34%, perhaps the researchers could learn something from Hercule Poirot.

Nostalgia for the 50's officially began at Woodstock in 1969 with the lamentable appearance by Sha Na Na.

One day before Ireland's Guinness Six Nations campaign ended with a lamentable collapse in Cardiff, Leinster did their best to offer up some good news to Irish rugby fans.