Sentences with phrase «lamentable situation»

Link to our Chief Executive's blog for ITV News «Lamentable situation» of domestic violence victims at risk of losing children

Moving Gove out (and into a sort of intra-party role as «chief whip» in the Commons) was thus a way for the prime minister to contain the fallout from this lamentable situation.

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The situation is even more lamentable for the general public, which is fed a constant stream of propaganda by specialists in environmental issues from the mainstream media and well - funded alarmist blogs.

What I have particularly in mind is that while there is much talk about taking Jesus as a key to the interpretation of human nature, as it is often phrased, or to the meaning of human life, or to the point of man's existential situation, there is a lamentable tendency to stop there and not to go on to talk about «the world» — by which Miss Emmet meant, I assume, the totality of things including physical nature; in other words the cosmos in its basic structure and its chief dynamic energy.

The lamentable polarisation and confusion which has developed as a consequence of these conflicting interpretations of our present situation is only too familiar to anyone involved in the life of the Church and has led all too often into destructive polemic rather than real dialogue about the best way forward for Catholic Christianity in the third millennium.

«What is so helpful about the incarnational analogy,» writes Enns, «is that it reorients us to see that the Bible's «situatedness» is not a lamentable or embarrassing situation, but a positive one: That the Bible, at every turn, shows how «connected» it is to its own world is a necessary consequence of God incarnating himself.

The lamentable striker situation was clear for all to see again.

Yet for all the admirable narrative economy this engenders, Altman's TV background also produces occasional, lamentable blackout gags that violate the plausibility of the characters or their situations for the sake of easy sitcom sign - offs; it also allows for facile conceits.

A look at what's there in English brought up first of all, appropriately enough, given the recent 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, a 1772 monograph by Anthony Benezet, «Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants: with an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects.»