Sentence examples for woeful consequences from inspiring English sources
In his new book, France's Got Talent: the Woeful Consequences of French Elitism, published on Wednesday, Gumbel takes a hard swipe at France's new nobility: the fewer than 500 graduates of elite schools that dominate the highest echelons of business and politics.
Peter Gumbel, an author and lecturer at the Paris Institut d'Etudes Politiques – known as Sciences Po – whose book on the French ruling class, France's Got Talent: the Woeful Consequences of French Elitism, was also published last Wednesday, is sure Royal will bounce back.
Africa is a place where expedience trumps moral niceties, and where benevolence reliably boomerangs with the most woeful of consequences: nothing is so dangerous as a righteous man.The plot involves a Christian aid organisation that buys and liberates black slaves captured by northern Sudanese Arabs during rapacious raids on southern villages.
United's woeful season has damaging consequences for the worldwide appeal of the Premier League, according to the Premier League's chief executive Richard Scudamore.
"One lesson is that more research is needed on firearm markets and regulatory effect on those market; this is one consequence of the woeful lack of government funding for research on gun violence," wrote Cook, of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Having dropped three points behind Celtic as a consequence of a woeful performance in the 1-0 home defeat by Inverness Caledonian Thistle last Wednesday, Walter Smith's players will be obliged to demonstrate that they are sufficiently resilient to spring back to the summit.
Either way, the outcome is woeful.
The trend also had serious consequences for the UK's already woeful productivity performance.
The woeful state of the economy, he said, is "a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some".
The woeful show touched off a frenzy of chin-pulling in the British press: Labour was finally suffering the consequences of its arrogant, American-style soap selling and spin doctoring.
