The whole film, in fact, with its loping pace and plaintive score, feels like a woefully polite, not to say British, take on a foreign horror; was there really no one, from the fierce new wave of German filmmakers, prepared to dramatize the Schlink?
Government health spending especially, at less than 1% of GDP, is woefully low and not tackled meaningfully in this package.Nor is there anything to bring forward the other reform that would do most to raise rural incomes: giving farmers stronger rights over their most valuable asset, the land they farm.
"His first two science budgets were woefully inadequate, not out of malice but out of ignorance".
The service we provide is woefully inadequate – but not for the want of trying.
It's to be hoped that, in his desire to let us loose, Osborne is not woefully under-estimating human nature.
This pretty much set the tone for our experience with physicians: generally woefully ignorant, and not interested in investigating beyond the diagnosis.
The plan would have worked, had Dius not woefully miscalculated the higher education maintenance grants budget, creating another hole that needed plugging.
Even the dreaded barrel bomb, a cylinder packed with explosives that is pushed out of planes and helicopters and is woefully inaccurate, does not inspire as much fear.
The lead author, Dr. W. Charles Huskins of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., noted that those numbers were "not woefully bad," as previous studies had found hand-washing compliance to be as low as 50 percent.
Cllr Izzi Seccombe, Chair of the Local Government Association's Community Wellbeing Board, said: Sadly the findings of this survey highlight what we already know, the current social care system is woefully underfunded and not fit for the 21st century.
