Examples of lamentable

• And for every family in which they do, there are five others that dismiss its ideals as grotesque or lamentable.

• There are many reasons for this lamentable situation and the authors commendably guide the reader through the somewhat confusing maze of national fertilizer policies.

• More lamentable was that few people dared to speak the truth, because doing so would inevitably result in being denounced.

• This situation is all the more lamentable given the demographic changes which are happening in concert with social, political and economic transformations.

• The level of anthropological insight is similarly lamentable.

• Nonetheless, it is a valuable record and analysis of the lamentable failure of what should have been a model international regulatory instrument.

• Indeed, it would be lamentable if the leading accounts of electoral competition could not provide more definite guidance.

• The loss of "between constituent accountability" is lamentable and should not be forgotten, even if the threat of coercion makes the private ballot necessary.