Sentences with phrase «as lamentable»

With repetitive missions, awful controls for both on - foot and driving sections and a translation best described as lamentable («Conglaturation!»

This mutton dressed as lamentable science was sandwiched between the proceedings of a conference on chaos theory.

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The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

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.

Now as he went thence to the place where he was to vanish out of their sight, they all followed after him weeping; but Moses beckoned with his hand to those that were remote from him, and bade them stay behind in quiet, while he exhorted those that were near to him that they would not render his departure so lamentable.

Hearing Wolterstorff's quip, one would never guess that great figures from the Christian past like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, who affirmed openness to procreation as one of the essential goods of marriage, were well aware of the crude technologies of contraception of their day and the lamentable fact of infertile marriages.

Just as King Herod's slaughter of the innocent is unsurprising (though lamentable), so too is the language of post-reproductive humanity, such as that hinted at by the author of the «Five Year Plan» or, in more sophisticated fashion, by Lauren Berlant and Michel Foucault.

In so far as this restriction of the sense of duty to the kinship group was illustrated in war, modern life presents lamentable parallels.

Although the dismissal of other disciplines is lamentable, it is right and good that science is taken as true — because it works.

The lamentable result is «religion - free education» that «indoctrinates» the young into viewing secularism as the only frame of reference - a state of affairs neither neutral nor fair.

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

We will classify them as necessary, accidental, lamentable, and factitious.

I mentioned 4 lamentable circumstances in the short season already and as ever your stock Wenger - worshipping response has taken the crumb of doubt in ONE instance and declared that enough to somehow undermine all I say.

Then, as 56,000 people roared and rumbled up in the vast stadium, the race became a lamentable free - for - all.

When we were signing young players for the lamentable project youth, they were, with the exception of anelka, cesc and bellerin, generally relative nobodies with fewprofessional games under their belts, little in the way of youth achievement that could be demonstrated, and having achieved nothing as pros.

It happened in 2015 as Chelsea attempted that lamentable defence of their Premier League title under Jose Mourinho.

The nation needs an effective opposition, particularly as the current leadership of the country is so lamentable.

At the same time, however, it is lamentable that a Labour leader can so pall next to a Scottish Tory, a supposedly extinct bred reborn as the most coherent opposing voice to the SNP hegemony that Corbyn was supposed to shatter.

As Ian Dunt rightly points out in a piece examining yet another lamentable bill, legislation should be «a sober undertaking which demands responsibility and sincerity from those who write and vote on it».

«If we go into the trenches in order to try to defend this then it would be seen as part of a lamentable history on civil liberties issues and it would do us terrible damage at this stage.»

A good, or rather lamentable, example of this trend can be found in a spate of interviews with EDL leader «Tommy Robinson» (real name: Stephen Yaxley), who has convictions for violence as well as fraud.

Instead of arriving at the position of either backing the government's welfare bill or forever being depicted as the friend of the scrounger, shadow ministers should have been making a big argument about the regressive nature of the Budget, the lamentable symbolism of effectively scrapping child poverty targets and the removal of in - work benefits to those eponymous hard - working families.

«It would be lamentable for Labour to use this tired old science fiction as an excuse not to vote for the programme it devised in government and has continued to support in opposition.»

DD has to be restored as Shadow HS in place of the lamentable Dominic Grieve, who seems only too pleased to up the bidding in the ongoing auction of our civil liberties.

As if to compensate for the star's lack of dramatic oomph, the supporting performers tend to ham it up, with mostly lamentable results.

The things missing from the first film have been satisfactorily addressed in the second: the crucial racial bullying subplot; the unfortunate attention on special effects as spectacle; and the lamentable lack of character development.

The post-Batman vs Superman studio panic was evident in the lamentable Suicide Squad, which tried to crowbar humour in to what had obviously started out as a Snyder - aping «dark and gritty» action-fest.

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.

We know you're not the type of gamer who would ever skip a game's cutscenes and just watch the ending on YouTube but, as suggested by one of our awesome listeners, we're discussing those lamentable practices on this week's show.

As a result, the likes of Infigen, Pac Hydro, RATCH and Co will soon become a lamentable piece of Australia's history.

«Finally, you may wonder why it is that a member of the Upper House of the United Kingdom legislature, wholly unconnected with and unpaid by the corporation that is the victim of your lamentable letter, should take the unusual step of calling upon you as members of the Upper House of the United States legislature either to withdraw what you have written or resign your sinecures.»

The Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) case preparation has been described as «lamentable» by the Court of Appeal in two decisions in so many weeks.