One of the most frequent criticisms of our legal system is that people are being fined pitifully small amounts.
We have lived to bury many tyrants, great and small; and the small usually end more pitifully and more rapidly than the great.
To do so would be pitifully short-sighted and ethically reprehensible.
After the autumn statement, growth will still be pitifully low during the coming year.
They are a pitifully miscellaneous set of provisions in many respects.
Lack of cash affects the prize money, which is often pitifully small.
In most cases, the fines currently handed down by the courts are pitifully low, which prevents the operation of an effective system of deterrence.
If one takes such an industry as coal, has re-organisation, has the vast expenditure on mechanisation as yet produced anything but pitifully inadequate results?
