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  • And having left the Broncos a couple of seasons back, next year he is returning to the Broncos, and his departure will be unlamented in Roosters territory.
  • I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
  • The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
  • Describing the species as "cocooned", Ferguson then lamented the present day "look at me" culture. Sir Alex Ferguson: I'm in no mood for retiring at Manchester United
  • Last week I lamented the lack of tries in our now defence-dominated game, what with the accent on specialist prevention coaching.
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  • interred in an unlamented grave
  • Upon this occasion I particularly lamented that he had not that warmth of friendship for his brilliant pupil, which we may suppose would have had a benignant effect on both.
  • Thackeray said the BJP had touched the pinnacle of success under Vajpayee's leadership and lamented that some ambitious leaders in the party were eyeing his place.
  • I saw a picture not long since, in Edinburgh, copied from an engraving in Boydell's Shakspeare; subject, -- "Lear (and suite) in the storm," but coloured according to the imagination and taste of the artist; its name ought assuredly to have been _Redcap and the blue-devils_, for the venerable and lamented monarch had fine streaming locks of the real _carrot hue_, whilst his very hideous companions showed _blue_ faces, and blue armour; and with their strangely contorted bodies seemed meet representatives of some of the infernal court. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828
  • In his recent annual address to the clergy the Bish. lamented bitterly that the American "jingo" was provoking dear patient Christian England to put on her war-paint. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
  • The unlamented Soviet Union was able to develop an independent strategy to which its allies more or less willingly conformed.
  • Only a fortnight ago, England coach Duncan Fletcher lamented that even the world's best all-rounders rarely reached the heights of their batting and bowling games at the same time.
  • Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff lamented the deaths of what she called "defenseless children" and asked for a minute of silence to honor the youngsters. 11 Children Killed in Brazil School Shooting
  • We have a better suggestion - this cutting-edge piece of kit is the ideal replacement for the late, lamented Bryan McFadden, who recently departed legendary Irish pop combo Westlife.
  • My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.
  • Where does chivalry at last become something more than a mere procession of plumes and armor, to be lamented by Burke, except in some of the less ambitious verses of the Trouvères, where we hear the canakin clink too emphatically, perhaps, but which at least paint living men and possible manners? The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
  • You might remember me from such televisual classics as Funny-Shaped Vegetables, The Dog That Said Sausages and, of course, Get Britain Singing, with the late but not overly lamented Doc Cox.
  • The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • It's quite mad, and the texts are adapted from unpublished writings Edward sent the band expressly for the purpose, shortly before his lamented death.
  • Aircraft wheels could yet again be groping tenuously for the asphalt of Kai Tak, Hong Kong's unlamented previous airport, if private pilots and other aviation enthusiasts get their way.
  • It is this system which has been responsible for the secrecy during the budget process and which itself costs more to administer than the lamented and traditional British committee system.
  • If a minister was naughty, there was this sword that they used to fall upon and withdraw to this place called the backbenches where they lamented the fact they blew their chance in the government. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Most do too much while Ejiofor just purses his lips minimally to make you realise He Knows that his verbose, pencil-fetishising line manager is a jerk, that the hack who doorstepped his wife is scum, that justice must be done even in the case of a murdered unlamented drug baron etc. TV review: The Shadow Line and Psychoville
  • He lamented that since the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, "Pacifica has also become more partisan and far more doctrinaire, which is a real shame, as the original mission of the network was firmly in line with the intent of the Fairness Doctrine, in that, Pacifica wanted to present all viewpoints on the network. American Thinker
  • R'shiel understood their fascination with the music and lamented its loss to the human world. TREASON KEEP
  • After a brief season of useful labour there,she fell asleep in Jesus,lamented by all who knew her.
  • Less than a year after being hired by Felder, press guy Eric Kuo called Lipa Schmeltzer's "Hallel" one of his favorites, and lamented not being able to find the albums in stores. Kelly 'Deeply Flattered' By Mayoral Speculation
  • Boyle, a champion of both the corpuscularian doctrine and the Baconian method of natural history, preferred to report the results of his experiments, including negative results, and frequently lamented the fact that we lacked "histories Sticky Wants to Grab
  • E. L. Godkin, the editor of the Nation, might have been speaking for all of them when he lamented the “gaudy stream of bespangled, belaced and beruffled barbarians” flooding New York. The Five of Hearts
  • And yesterday, Sunday, I lamented that going to the movies has become much less of a pleasure for me these days and more of an exercise in worrywart-ism. Lance Mannion:
  • `You can't unlearn what you know from being in love,' she lamented, `and that's why you see things differently. THE MANANA MAN
  • I only ask this because I happened to eaves drop with utter dismay when three of the bloated scrum on that Eurostar lamented about the busy week ahead of them - then whinge about what an "agg'" it was that they had to sign on some time. And the winners were ... les touts
  • My grandmother, as usual, lamented the decline in moral standards in today's society.
  • Al-Ansari lamented hoax calls impede the work of firefighters and might endanger lives of many people in case such calls coincide with real fire incidents. Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
  • On Friday, Benedict lamented what he called strains on the traditional African family, condemning sexual violence against women and chiding countries that have approved abortion. Undefined
  • Elizabeth, who died an unlamented old bat, metamorphosed retrospectively into ‘Good Queen Bess’.
  • In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"! Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
  • For years, dive operators and visitors to Phuket have lamented that the area lacked a decent sized wreck.
  • The Landless People's Movement (LPM) lamented on Thursday what it described as a grotesque distortion of its programmes by the media, and denied it had any violent or lawless intentions. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The late, lamented Uptown 1 was silent - then a single staccato bark echoed throughout the cinema.
  • Three years ago you gave a pleasing illustration of "_the Amusements of May_," and at the same time lamented the decrease of village festivity and rural merriment, which in days langsyne cheered the honest hearts and lightened the daily toil of our rustic ancestors. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 379, July 4, 1829
  • Anyway, yesterday Xander exclaimed something like, "God, smart girls are hot!" as Anya figured something out and Willow lamented, "Why couldn't you have discovered that in eleventh grade? Buffy Quote of the Week
  • The flaw that Brown has lamented for months - a thin frontcourt - led to a mismatch as the Cavs continued to make a claim as one of the league's best teams. USATODAY.com
  • If he lamented the loss of a place where all obligations were to be dissolved, he never admitted as much to his instructor. INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
  • John Ross, Steven S. Long, Adam Dickstein, and Christian Moore, authors of Among the Clans, a sourcebook for the late, lamented Star Trek Role-playing Game created by the equally late, lamented Last Unicorn Games. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
  • Local developer Bill Walsh lamented to a San Diego friend that since Olympian Michael Phelps got "bonged" by Kellogg Co., we won't be seeing his mug on cereal boxes. AroundTheCapitol.com
  • For its follow-up, 2001's Missundaztood, she brought in Linda Perry, former lead singer of unlamented pop-grunge act 4 Non Blondes.
  • The trees cast their skeletal frames against the gunmetal sky and the crows, like a flock of hooded widows, lamented their lot with throaty cries.
  • Kylaithis; but he couldn't even stitch a plectron to a lyre -- the other one, who lives near the house of Hermodorus, after you have left the street, was pretty good once, but he's too old, now; the late lamented Kylaithis -- may her kinsfolk never forget her -- used to patronize him. Satyricon
  • Instead, this is a charming memoir of a Caribbean childhood, a celebration of the good things in life, and a gentle dig at a set of values that are long gone and unlamented.
  • For years we've lamented the level of deaths on our roads.
  • The first part of this dominant Western reading is true enough, for the late unlamented USSR was the converse of paradise, if you were a dissident, that is, someone with an inexplicable desire for freedom of expression.
  • During a lecture in Toronto in 2007, Archbishop Williams had lamented what he called the lack of "rootedness" in the Anglican approach to Scripture and said "we've lost quite a bit of what was once a rather good Anglican practice of reading the Bible in the tradition of interpretation. Of course, I could be wrong...
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • Ever since World War II but even more since the unlamented Whitlam years, the national government has intervened more and more in what were considered to be State responsibilities.
  • Raymond then lamented the cureless evil of his situation with Perdita. The Last Man
  • It was just whispers at first, reminiscent of those early rumours that eventually coalesced into the late-lamented National Post.
  • Some wanted retribution and called for the death penalty for convicted police murderers, while others lamented the decline of their communities.
  • The scene of Cruise dancing around the house to some Bob Seger is pretty well-known; what you might not remember is that De Mornay's pimp Guido is played by Joe Pantoliano - the Sopranos' late, unlamented Ralphie.
  • In tone and content, it recalls the unlamented UNC 1997 media Green Paper.
  • While the Government, the police particularly, have lamented about increasing road carnage resulting from overloading, nothing seems to be solved because no punishment is meted out to the culprits as they corruptly get away with it.
  • Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death.
  • ‘Who are they,’ Francis lamented towards the end of his life, ‘who have torn my order and my friars from my hands?’
  • The pioneer is insensible to arguments touching the future supply… The want of foresight that permitted the destruction of these magnificent forests will be bitterly lamented.
  • Neither Rupert Murdoch nor Kerry Packer (nor his late lamented elder brother Clyde) is immortal; indeed their life expectancies are quite short.
  • The nation lamented the death of its great war leader.
  • Ned swore, and Della lamented her vanished role of bridemaid. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
  • Only the common people, who benefited from his extravagant spending, lamented his death.
  • The Disco ‘Tute is in a swivet over the California Science Center’s cancellation of a showing of Darwin’s Dilemma, the latest excretion of Illustrata Media, producer of the late unlamented Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed at the Disco ‘Tute. The Panda's Thumb: October 2009 Archives
  • ILOILO CITY, Philippines-Environmental groups lamented what they called the dismal end of the global summit on Copenhagen and issued a challenge to the ... WN.com - Articles related to XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India – October 3-14, 2010
  • Benedict lamented what he called the "divide" between wealthy and poor nations, and the harm many people are suffering to their dignity. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
  • The Secretary General of Ijaw Youth Council, Engr. Udengs Eradiri, who spoke to Vanguard yesterday in Yenagoa, lamented what he described as the pervasive poverty in the predominantly riverine state due to the alleged manipulation of some few in the state treasury department. Vanguard News
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • He did good, professional work but reportedly lamented the dearth (to him) of more uplifting assignments in comics.
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • So how come the entire nation is worrying itself sick over whether Officer Crowley should have pinched the blithering Gates, while 500 crackers are raped and killed, unreported, unlamented, unavenged? On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • The puppet shot to fame on TV's late, lamented satire show Spitting Image, and is being sold off by the show's co-creator, Roger Law.
  • While some in the industry have lamented the end of designer leadership, there's already evidence that the moneymen are a boon to both profitability and creativity. Luxury Goes Undercover
  • At one of the recent public meetings on sustainable development, a member of the audience lamented the rapid pace of development in Bermuda.
  • The President himself has lamented the high effective tax rates paid by low income families.
  • Much like the late-lamented, cantankerous Mr Dahl, most children revel in the gleefully grotesque and delightfully disgusting.
  • This week is one to be lamented as if officially puts an end to the summer and the time has come to resolve to remove the de-icer from the car before the locks freeze up rendering the doors inoperable.
  • When she reached back to feel it, however, it felt thicker than she remembered, for she had always lamented the fineness of her hair. ‘Uh huh.’
  • The late, lamented Internet bubble is just the latest example.
  • Tancredo has supported the privatization of Social Security, and lamented that Supreme Court decisions like Roe v. Wade have "emasculated" us. Michele Swenson: Tancredo Candidacy a Symptom of Degraded Politics, the Race to the Right and to the Bottom
  • The Times lamented a loss of innocence and grieved over a world in which everything had changed.
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • ‘In the popular imagination, robots are about the military, or bots sawing each other in half,’ lamented Douglas Repetto.
  • She also lamented the extra Rs.3 per spectacle, charged for ticketless children.
  • Mayors, and also premiers, have long lamented the fact the federal government spends a miserly two percent of what it rakes in on fuel taxes on highway construction and maintenance.
  • The memory of the late, mainly unlamented Crossroads, when the acting - under pressure - became as embarrassingly threadbare as the clothes, is fresh in many a soap addict's mind.
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see s tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and - seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals. The Memoirs of Napoleon
  • The royal members lamented the passing of aristocratic society.
  • And many times when a reformation was introduced under some of the wiser and better princes, it is still lamented by the sacred writer, that [717] _the high places were not taken away: the people still offered, and burnt incense on the high places_. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
  • In 1814, Carl Rothschild lamented the tendency of rich German Jews to Christianize themselves: 'I am a Jew in the depths in my heart.
  • Byline: Nestor P. Burgos Jr. Environmental groups lamented what they called the dismal end of the global summit on climate change in Copenhagen and issued a challenge to the P.ilippines. Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented.
  • When someone in the audience asks what she thinks of the late, lamented Johnny Carson, the chat-show host who helped launch her own career before the two fell out, she barely hesitates.
  • The Pope lamented what he called the harmful and destructive influence of some forms of modern culture. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
  • Dio lived through turbulent times: he and his fellow senators quailed before tyrannical emperors and lamented the rise of men they regarded as upstarts, and in Pannonia he grappled with the problem of military indiscipline.
  • Addison was buried in Westminster Abbey, and lamented in an elegy by Tickell.
  • Cybele found her son's body and returned with him to Mount Ida, where she lamented his death.
  • `Then I'll transfer him to the gone and unlamented section. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
  • In her recent interview with this publication, Garvey lamented that some of the cuts being bruited about in Congress could be ‘a hit for us.’
  • a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
  • _The Tears of Peace_, which contains his finest work, is in honour of Prince Henry -- a worthy work on a worthy subject, which was followed up later by an epicedium on the prince's lamented death. A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • Thou hast grieved over my calumniation, and likewise hast lamented the damage to my good name. Consolation of Philosophy
  • Readers of the lamented but never forgotten Pillbox may remember a letter Penman received from Brian Anderson of the neo-Conservative City Journal.
  • He was not a man much given to public displays of angst and he retired largely unmissed and unlamented but he got that one dead right on April 22, 2008 at 8: 06 pm | Reply were doomed Swamp - Feet - Wet « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Tell me, because there are two Kerdons, one is that blue-eyed fellow, the neighbor of Myrtaline the daughter of Kylaithis; but he couldn't even stitch a plectron to a lyre -- the other one, who lives near the house of Hermodorus, after you have left the street, was pretty good once, but he's too old, now; the late lamented Kylaithis -- may her kinsfolk never forget her -- used to patronize him. The Satyricon — Complete
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • All Lebanon lamented his death as one man and honoured him with a hero's funeral.
  • M) ost of the business of finance is carried out through complex deals arranged by 'nondepository' institutions, institutions like the late lamented Bear Stearns -- and Lehman. Connecting.the.Dots
  • Fashola got to the camp in Kaduna, their own representative lamented about the peanut being paid to the sport people for their upkeep. The Decay in Our Sports...
  • Q It's been probably a couple of years since the President lamented the fact that they still have what he called incandescent bulbs in the White House. Press Briefing By Todd Stern
  • The Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka lamented his death as a ‘great loss to the industrial sector of the country’.
  • Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about. Celt and Saxon — Complete
  • Usually when I make this observation, I'm thinking of, say, Britain's late unlamented nationalized car industry.
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • Without the Student Loan Scheme, university students would continue to pursue the lofty academic courses whose demise is being so sorely lamented.
  • Just when you thought that it was safe to start reading the sports pages again, up pops Chippenham Town's erstwhile and unlamented manager, Tommy Saunders, to give us more pearls of wisdom.
  • The royal members lamented the passing of aristocratic society.
  • She sold me one, and the lamented Theodora spent practically all her time on it until the inevitable end, whereupon I gave it to someone with a lot of pets who I thought might need it.
  • Mintz, founding partner of law firm Mintz & Gold LLC in New York, lamented what he described as the backroom deal that was cut between Congress and the SEC to keep the SEC's failures secret. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • The latter, especially the external pair, carry blood from the face and are subject abnormally to the will: the late lamented Mr. Charley Peace, who murdered and "burgled" once too often, could darken his complexion and even change it by arresting jugular circulation. Arabian nights. English
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • Juanita used her critique to discuss her late lamented career in stand-up comedy.
  • The outer casing's inverted curve is skillfully worked into the afterdecks to round off the ship's hindquarters in a flattering tribute to the lamented cruiser sterns of yesteryear.
  • we lamented the loss of benefits
  • The royal members lamented the passing of aristocratic society.
  • This time Martin nodded, and Joe lamented, "Wish I was. Chapter 16
  • We lamented over our bad luck.
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom.
  • This former Portuguese colony is mainly Catholic and Benedict lamented what he called strains on the traditional African family. Undefined
  • Life without regret, dead things like a gust of wind; life without regret, it will still have to come; life need not be annoyed, anxious white hair to black; life need not be lamented, loss of self-confidence will lose everything!
  • If Mr. Marshall thinks that the current display of beastliness is oppressive, he should consider what the reaction of the Israeli Government would be toward the Palestinian terrorists if the late and unlamented dictator of Syria, Hafaz Assad was the prime minister. Matthew Yglesias » Does The Middle East Matter?
  • Instead, this is a charming memoir of a Caribbean childhood, a celebration of the good things in life, and a gentle dig at a set of values that are long gone and unlamented.
  • If one went by media depictions, he lamented, one would think his neighbourhood is a crime-ridden slum.
  • He also lamented the existence of attitudes asserting inferiority toward anything from the West within the art world.
  • The late, unlamented 20th Century, the Century of Nanking, of Auschwitz, of the Somme and the Berlin Wall is gone, finished,
  • Pallace, yea, most of the men and women dwelling in the Cittie, the bodie of Gabriello being laide in the midst of the Court, upon the white Damaske shrowd given by Andreana, with infinite Roses and other sweet Flowers lying theron: and such was the peoples love to him, that never was any mans death, more to be bemoaned and lamented. The Decameron
  • By contrast, some past winners have lamented that the prize diverts them from their beloved lab work.
  • pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance
  • Political historians have lamented the death of political history since the 1960s and 1970s onslaught of social and cultural historians.
  • Clinton lamented that Syria has continued with "a brutal crackdown" against pro-democracy protesters despite what she called overwhelming international condemnation. The Australian | News |
  • The ground, as with the late and lamented Wembley before it, came from the lush green 4,000 acres lovingly tended by Inturf at Wilberfoss.
  • Sometimes they'd bring in Trent Buhler or Brian Kassian, both of the late, lamented Cowboy Dick.
  • Depository banks, the guys in the marble buildings, now play only a minor role in channeling funds from savers to borrowers; most of the business of finance is carried out through complex deals arranged by "nondepository" institutions, institutions like the late lamented Bear Stearns - and Lehman. True Blue Liberal
  • Mr. Pozen lamented how, during the late 90's, "the notion of audited earnings had pretty much become a joke, so the question became: 'Do you have revenues; do you even have an idea?' Yale Entrepreneurs' Economic Analysis: Rah Rah Rah!
  • Even Horace Mann, the best known of the education reformers in the 1840s, lamented the slow progress of his efforts, labeling his opponents as "an extensive conspiracy" of "political madmen.
  • His nonentity was a source of regret to us: we lamented to see a tall handsome youth, destined to rule over his fellow-men, trembling at the eight of a horse, and wasting his time in the game of hide-and-seek, or at leap-frog and whose whole information consisted in knowing his prayers, and in saying grace before and after meals. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
  • I recently heard a commencement speech by critic James Wood in which he lamented the loss of pungency from our lives—so much is now sanitized or hidden away from the public eye—and exhorted would-be writers to search deep in their imaginations for the primary details that animate prose and poetry. Notable & Quotable
  • Zoe was a beautiful brown-and-white spaniel, with eyes that were almost human in their soft beseechingness, and Mrs. Broderick often lamented that she could not eulogise his doggish virtues as Mrs. Browning had immortalised her Flush. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
  • In 1608, the receipt for box-trees cut down upon the sheepwalk on the hill was 50_l_.; in an account taken in 1712, it is supposed that as much had been cut down, within a few years before, as amounted to 3,000_l_.; and in 1759, a Mr. Miller lamented that "the trees on Box Hill had been pretty much destroyed; though many remained of considerable bigness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828
  • As recently as 1992 we returned two Conservatives - Peter Thurnham and Tom Sackville, to one Labour politician - the late, lamented David Young.
  • Sowell lamented the decline of politicians, but he ignored the parallel decline in irate sufferering humanity. Matthew Yglesias » Sowell’s Coup
  • Yesterday, Cassie's distraught grandmother, Elizabeth Chery, fought to hold back the tears as she lamented his loss.
  • Even the president of the American Psychiatric Association lamented in 2005: "As a profession, we have allowed the biopsychosocial model [of mental illness] to become the bio-bio-bio model. Anis Shivani: The Mass Production of Mental Illness and What To Do About It
  • She lamented the fact that manufacturers did not produce small packs for single-person households.
  • I keep 20 + years of The Beaver back issues, nine years of the late, unlamented Frank, and am growing collections of British Columbia Magazine, Collectible Automobile and Canadian Geographic.
  • `You can't unlearn what you know from being in love,' she lamented, `and that's why you see things differently. THE MANANA MAN
  • Harry Redknapp lamented a dream occasion that turned sour, a night when "everything went wrong", in particular the sending-off of Peter Crouch in the 15th minute as Tottenham Hotspur crashed to a 4-0 defeat at Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-final first leg. Harry Redknapp rues Peter Crouch red card as Tottenham crash in Madrid
  • Clutching the mics are Priest and Sayyid of the late, lamented Antipop Consortium, so you can count on some crazy-assed brainiac rhymes over there.
  • A title launders the stain of trade with remarkable ease, and her lamented husband’s fortune had been made from fish. The Dressmaker
  • Frank DiBello, the chief executive of Space Florida—a state-fundedn economic-development agency that normally would be a White House ally—lamented what he called a "circular and endless debate" about NASA's future. Blastoff Obscures NASA's Troubles
  • The only show I can think of that has gone in the opposite direction — speeding things up, because DVR watchers can always pause or rewinding if they want — is (the late, lamented) _Pushing Daisies_, a rich show I found tremendously difficult to appreciate in real time. Comics on the Screen
  • we lamented the death of the child
  • As Russia expert and New York University Professor Stephen Cohen (as well as longtime Nation contributing editor and, full disclosure, my husband) lamented at a conference on the Cold War held at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow last week, US-Russian relations are being remilitarized. Katrina vanden Heuvel: Needed: A New Direction for US-Russian Relations
  • Afterwards a few Irish players, most notably Duff, lamented the lost opportunity to earn three points.
  • 'Back-stabbing and disloyalty,’ lamented another true-blue MP.
  • Each was implied when he lamented the 'agitation' and 'immobility' of recent presidencies. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a little slow in understanding our request and we lamented in front of him that you couldn't get good hired help anymore.
  • Families may be poor in the kitchen, but when they attend functions, they dress up with leopard and otter skins in the their brocade and silk chuba and shirts "he lamented. Animal Skin Clothes Burned In Tibet After Dalai Lamas Call
  • In such circumstances, some recalled the bluster and bombast of Lenihan's late lamented father in other testing times.
  • I'm sure there were those who lamented the demise of the quill pen and inkstand in the classroom.
  • Sloan is one of those bands whose lack of popularity stateside is lamented and ridiculed by their devoted fans.
  • Short tenures of senior secretaries, Ms. Gouri lamented, has had its own effect in the functioning of her department.
  • He explained why he was leaving the big city to return home to the Midwest. He missed the woods he played in as a child and lamented the way 'slurbs' had taken over the landscape.
  • Nothing wrong with that, says Lord Donaldson, the former chairman of the Tories’ late unlamented national industrial relations court.
  • 49 And behold, thou hast seene the similitude of her: and because she lamented her sonne, thou beganst to comfort her: and of these thinges that haue chanced, these were to be opened to thee. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  • After a brief season of useful labour there,she fell asleep in Jesus,lamented by all who knew her.
  • Depository banks, the guys in the marble buildings, now play only a minor role in channeling funds from savers to borrowers; most of the business of finance is carried out through complex deals arranged by 'nondepository' institutions, institutions like the late lamented Bear Stearns -- and Lehman. Hollywood Elsewhere
  • I almost fancy I hear a ghostly mocking chuckle from the late and unlamented Stanley Wardley.
  • Nay," declared a dumpy figure with big ears and the frenzied face of a maniacal toadfish, "we must work together to defeat the likes of the late and unlamented Susnam Evyndd, may his pure and noble soul lie corrupted and befouled forever. Kingdoms of Light
  • That did not prevent some journalists from making a meal of a very few incidents while themselves clearly behaving in an obnoxiously intrusive manner or as propagandists for the unlamented Iraqi regime.
  • Bartolinian codex, in the precious codex of Cortona, and in many other early manuscripts and editions, the word _pianse_ is found in the place of _salse_; "She lamented upon the cross with Christ. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860
  • Richard Hickox, the new musical director of the company, replacing the lamented Simone Young, doesn't have Melbourne on his radar.
  • Egyptian intellectuals and media on Friday morning lamented the death of Sherif at the hands of his kidnappers.
  • the imprint of our wise and lamented friend
  • That is only incidentally because of generally execrable adult catechesis, which is as spottily rectified as it is broadly lamented in the Church. The project continued
  • The nation lamented the death of its great war leader.
  • “We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam-shovel,” Leopold lamented in “The Land Ethic,” “and we are proud of our yardage.” Aldo Leopold's Legacy
  • When Britain was thus dismembered from the empire, its importance was sensibly felt, and its loss sincerely lamented. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • We lamented over our bad luck.
  • Certainly, it would be impermissible to say that the American Republic is in any sense better than Albania under its late, unlamented, Stalinist leader, Enver Hoxa.
  • Today is the 27th anniversary of our family's departure from the late, unlamented Soviet Union.

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