Eksempler på doleful

• The doleful prophecies of that time were the main arguments adduced to scare those who were inclined to vote for this change.

• Now we are putting a vicious new twist into the doleful process that both parties have been engaged in for the past 50 years.

• In page 16 of their report they indulge in a very doleful criticism of the effect of labour-saving machinery upon labour.

• As it was a message of hope, he need not have been so doleful.

• Against the background of those doleful figures, the £60 million cut in regional aid is deplorable.

• We heard the melancholy and doleful tale of the coal trade.

• It is very possible, moreover, that today or tomorrow we will continue to add to this doleful list.

• All the doleful consequences which we were told would follow have not followed.

• If there had not been a freeze, causing the advertisers to withdraw, we should not be speaking in these doleful terms to-day.

• One barrier is looming and yet to come, but the other already exercises a profound and doleful influence over the industry.

• The farmers there are having the most doleful time that can be imagined.

• I now come to the beginning of this doleful experience which has come upon us, and has existed from 1920 to this day.

• You cannot appeal to good intentions for doleful competition and a profit monocracy.

• On this occasion he was rather in a doleful mood.

• That is one of the most doleful and terrible prospects with respect to our armaments during peace.