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• 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.

• Lamentable shortcomings become apparent here, which in some cases certainly lead to personal disappointments and require unprejudiced clarification by historical science.

• The lamentable fact was, he boldly asserted, that the nation's libraries and secondhand book shops contained ever burgeoning 'restricted' sections.

• The lack of an index is lamentable, but perhaps not unexpected in a project of this nature.

• This appears to be a lamentable state of legal affairs.

• That fellow's playing is lamentable.

• As pointed out in the introductory chapter, there has been a lamentable neglect of extended family relationships by sociologists during the last third of the 20th century.

• Bodkin supported the proposed legislation precisely to put a stop to this ' lamentable ' situation.