Sentences with phrase «lamentable failures»

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.).

It was voiced most succinctly by Dave Rowntree: Labour parliamentary candidate, Blur drummer, and a man whose modest - but - interesting politics (some of which are hinted at here) give you a flavour of where New Labour might have gone post-97, if not for a lamentable failure of political imagination.

Perhaps Mr Dawe wants to stop making excuses for his organisation's lamentable failure to deliver in recent years

«Had they not turned so forcefully towards self - interest in the 1990s they might not be in the position they are today,» he adds; referring mainly to the Society's lamentable failure to get to grips with complaints.

In March, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas joined the chorus of disapproval over her lamentable failure to stand up for the independence of the judiciary after the press onslaught over the Art 50 litigation including the Daily Mail's «Enemies of the People» headline.

This lamentable failure to formulate evidence - based policy in such an important area of the law seriously risks driving out valuable expertise, which will put the most vulnerable in society at increased risk of harm.

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Whatever the moral failures or outright hypocrisy of the old establishment, however, Wall Street's current ethos is even more lamentable.

But today's report insists these are not sufficient, and in particular warns that the government's failure to introduce such safeguards from the start of the process is a sign of «lamentable» consultation on the bill and an ignorance of its constitutional importance.

Waluigi's a bit like that Saturday morning cartoon villain who never wins, but never has the capacity to give up either — a sad, lamentable man who can't seem to realize that his failure will be perpetual.

Although cooperation is a concern in all aspects of litigation, it is the failure of cooperation in discovery that appears most lamentable.