| By avoiding the messiness of debate that a real democracy requires, we have given license to the excesses we now bemoan. |
| For years it was the lot of the put-upon husband to bemoan the domestic strife caused by the family battleaxe. |
| Year after year, the UK's elite universities bemoan the lack of knowledge and rigour among their intake of straight-A school-leavers. |
| Traditional purists will bemoan these suggestions as a dilution of tradition. |
| Even now, legislators and other government officials bemoan its vacuity and lack of detailed initiatives. |
| They bog down in the day-to-day administration of a small business and bemoan the lack of time to draw. |
