| The recent floods in Yorkshire were lamentably derivative and showed a complete failure of creative imagination. |
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| Mathews is, among other things, a master of that now lamentably neglected '60s art form, the put-on. |
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| Coming off four heavy defeats on the bounce, his charges looked lamentably short on confidence. |
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| The most successful modern reconciler of faith and the imperatives of modern life, King Hussein of Jordan, lamentably died not long ago. |
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| The human babe is a pitiably helpless and lamentably ignorant animal. |
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| It is equally important that the Government of Canada address all these things, and the government has lamentably failed in that regard. |
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| Bill C-36 deals with one of them, but the other three, lamentably, have been neglected by the government. |
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| The second choice is to not show up at all, which was done by the Liberals, unfortunately, lamentably. |
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| Commissioner, in all honesty, I find your statement lamentably insubstantial. |
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| We are lamentably lacking initiatives to consolidate the potential and perhaps real growth of the European Union. |
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| But none of the devastation changed the fact that the siege of Quebec was hobbling along lamentably. |
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| That is why this is, lamentably, a problem whose solution will take a great deal of time. |
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| Ireland excels at macroeconomics, but fails lamentably at microeconomics. |
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| It's true that Villarreal had been warned repeatedly that an invasion was coming from Glasgow and it seems obvious that their security arrangements were lamentably inadequate. |
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| In all likelihood some were headbangers who failed lamentably at school. |
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| Barisan's ethnic-Chinese parties did lamentably at the election. |
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| It is for those reasons that this bill is so lamentably inadequate. |
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| We are not debating this issue today because the Commission wanted us to, nor, indeed, out of any desire for it on the part of the Council, which, lamentably, left the Chamber before the debate began. |
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| And yet, many people are lamentably unaware of the full range of facilities available today-from welfare benefits through tax planning to making a will. |
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| Having failed lamentably with their much vaunted plan to eliminate the so-called structural budget deficit within the lifetime of this parliament, they now boast that they have halved it. |
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| The attitude that only paid work matters is lamentably common. |
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| Although Mr Böge also put the case for an increase for culture, the amount of this falls lamentably short of the amount that is desirable as a matter of urgency. |
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| Unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe is at a lamentably high level, never before has the gulf between rich and poor been so wide, social tensions are increasing and corruption is rampant. |
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| The work programme, lamentably, perpetuates this general trend. |
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| But just because the court freed them was not reason enough for the police to close the case file as lamentably and condemnably as they did. |
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