Sentence examples for woefully slow from inspiring English sources

'PM woefully slow on Calais crisis' Jump to media player David Cameron has been "woefully slow" in dealing with the Calais migrant crisis, according to Labour's acting leader, Harriet Harman.

Yet the present law is woefully slow at deporting people.

Perhaps most concerning is that even this woefully slow process can still be slowed further.

Doctors Without Borders officials say the government response to the outbreak has been woefully slow and underfinanced.

Testifying earlier to the committee, the head of consumer group Which? said the government had been "woefully slow".

Yet the spread of such schemes has been woefully slow; only a few hundred mainly rich-world fisheries have adopted them so far.

"Although nations have put in place some significant policies to slow biodiversity declines, these have been woefully inadequate, and the gap between the pressures on biodiversity and the responses is getting ever wider," said Dr Butchart.

"The governor has been woefully unengaged and slow to act on issues that are most important to Central California".

The judge, Michael Chambers QC, said the company's safety procedures were "woefully inadequate" and criticised its slow response to the incident.

As a result of this, and continued fierce fighting, the medical response and relief effort were slow getting under way and woefully under-resourced.

Banking regulation is woefully behind the times as is the slow crawl of drug legalization.