| As a regular car user on Station Road the lights on the present zebra crossing are deplorably faint. |
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| The long delays for an ambulance service, to come to an accident, or to convey a sick person in these areas is deplorably slow. |
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| Such a discovery might well leak: the Customs can be a deplorably leaky organisation and so can the police. |
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| The Portuguese Government acknowledged the need to increase the quota by 100 000 tonnes, but deplorably accepted considerably less. |
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| Given the current legal jungle, some parents are even driven to break the law and, deplorably, snatch children from their ex-partners. |
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| Regrettably the take-up and use of these funds by the Member States is still deplorably low. |
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| Most certainly and most deplorably of all, it is an insult to the long suffering Canadian taxpayer. |
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| The collective social understanding of what disability is or is not appears deplorably primitive almost visceral in nature. |
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| Yet we, the grown-ups have failed you deplorably in upholding many of them. |
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| Ms Bonino visited prisons in Kigali where 7000 prisoners are kept in deplorably unsanitary conditions. |
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| For 126 years, the federal government has displayed a deplorably paternalistic attitude to first nations by unilaterally prejudging what ought to be good for their development. |
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| Huge stocks of highly enriched uranium and separated plutonium, the fissile material of nuclear weapons, lie around the world, all too often in deplorably insecure conditions. |
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| This international-scale event has been understood in the main Spanish newspapers basically through national arguments: this point of view is, for the dialog between cultures, deplorably out of focus. |
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| According to freshwater experts, this use is deplorably unproductive: as much as half of the water diverted for agriculture yields no food at all! |
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| For a long time now, broadcasters have imagined and standardized many new multimedia and data applications which, deplorably, did not succeed in the market. |
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| There is no socially responsible and gender-sensitive journalism to the extent that women's condition in the print media accurately reflects the deplorably prevailing low regard for women's human rights. |
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| Gordon has shilly-shallied so long that it has, deplorably become a political issue. |
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| Women, deplorably, have been monopolising the raising of children and encouraging men to put their very lives in jeopardy by watching lots of football. |
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| It is not good enough for us to pat ourselves on the back and say that we are doing great things, creating competition, ensuring that people get work, when those same people are being exploited deplorably. |
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| We have 21 inspectors covering the whole state, a deplorably small number. |
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| Maintenance of infrastructure and public facilities is deplorably inadequate, and local authorities' own resources account for less than one tenth of public investment expenditure for local purposes. |
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| Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions. |
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