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  • Dudgeon made himself look like a schoolboy as he woefully mistimed a header on the half-way line.
  • The government cannot ignore Britain's chronic productivity and housing woes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Public expenditure on the arts is woefully inadequate.
  • Don't surrender to this dark woeld.
  • They displayed woeful ignorance of the safety rules.
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  • Let's not forget Jackson's woeful job on the script.
  • My favourite character was Pedro, Napoleon's Hispanic friend, whose quiet manner and woebegone expression were constant throughout the film.
  • To ease the week's woes, it's $2 off all draft beer and well spirits and $4 for a glass of house red or white wine.
  • Demand is down across the globe as the economic woes continue to stifle growth. The Sun
  • See you that fashion that wear a woebegone wording, how, primp as my boyfriend, so fold you old your good ego?
  • Woe slipped into the wheel; the merchant caught up the oaken wedge, and drove it into the axle-box from the other side. Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
  • When the cup of human life is so overflowing with woe and pain and misery, it seems to me a narrow dilettanteism or downright charlatanism to devote one's self to petty or bizarre problems which can have no relation to human happiness, and to prate of self-satisfaction and self-expression. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • Then there is the country's woeful provision of cheap, child-friendly restaurants.
  • It attracts men beset by alcohol, drug and gambling woes along, increasingly, with those tormented by serious mental health issues.
  • Mugabe has blamed his country's woes on former coloniser Britain and other Western nations. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Education may be better by local standards but is woeful by international standards. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm cold and wet and I haven't even got enough money for my bus fare home. Oh woe is me!
  • The euro zone's long-term woes are arguably greater than Britain's, and its inflation less rapid. 'Dear Chancellor'
  • Outside the main gate were a few students with woebegone faces, for they had been unable to produce their identity cards and had therefore been denied entry.
  • The language of brotherly love was not so easy to speak as he had supposed and was woefully short of imperatives. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
  • Not that I mind so much working late on a Friday, since it helps to keep my mind occupied and prevents me contemplating my woeful lack of a meaningful social life.
  • I'd want to be very sure of myself before I decided that a matrix reporting structure was the best possible answer to our intelligence woes.
  • So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Still, the Giants did fill a huge need by buttressing what were largely woeful special teams units with a lot of speed. Giants' Class Helps Solidify Special Teams
  • To be fair the quality of the outfield positions are excellent now but the goalkeepers are actually woeful.
  • The government cannot ignore Britain's chronic productivity and housing woes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her parents and Dom had managed to speak, but made it plain by their woebegone expressions that she was doing The Wrong Thing. TICKLED PINK
  • QE may appear to the coalition to be a more politically palatable way of addressing Britain's economic woes. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Franklin the day before had felt, so he now felt, the intolerableness of his woe; and, as with Franklin, the waves closed over his head. Franklin Kane
  • By lawmakers' own admission, Ireland lagged woefully behind its Western counterparts when they introduced adoption legislation in 1952.
  • Come in the rearward of a conquered woe.
  • Originally published in 1971, the publication has at its heart what purports to be the yearbook of the fictional C. Estes Kefauver Memorial High School in tragically woebegone Dacron, Ohio.
  • He bore a tale of woe from the Old World.
  • Yes | No | Report from bugg255 wrote 1 year 1 week ago woe unto thee that becomes addicted to piscatorial pursuits ... and i ain't kiddin 'niether great story and good pics Stripers on the Edge of Insanity
  • In the aftermath of a credit crunch, with banks across the world still woefully undercapitalised, still paying fortunes in bonuses and still not accepting the full write-offs on their pre-2008 lending, this is especially worrying. Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy
  • I feere mee, I have wroughte thee myckle woe [92]. The Rowley Poems
  • He stopped and chatted and spoke of how this hard-won point just might be the kick-start Rangers need, the turning point in their woeful season.
  • They were young men with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties and even younger women with long braids, some serious and others smiling, but all appearing woefully unprepared for life on China's harsh northwestern frontier.
  • The New Orleans Saints, a perennially woeful football team a run at the Super Bowl championship.
  • R. did not so much wallow in self-pity as luxuriate in a whimpering, orchestrated, self-flagellating symphony of slights, woes, and despairs.
  • Most people have forgotten that Apple introduced its first handheld device back in 1993: the woefully bad Newton, which was about the size of a hard-bound Stephen King novel big! and had truly pathetic handwriting-recognition software - supposedly its biggest selling point. How they sell you what you don't understand
  • Since, Hollywood insiders claim Jolie has been 'bombarding' Depp with emails and 'buring up the phone lines' about her woes. Home
  • Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
  • Personal woes? You got 'em. Troubled childhood? Check.
  • Yet the trail of woe leads beyond the banking sector. Times, Sunday Times
  • And ixnay on Yet Another Xenophobia aimed at particular trading partners, falsely blamed for our economic woes. William Easterly: The Coffee Party Manifesto
  • This is where I realized that my childhood, and indeed my life so far, has been woefully incomplete.
  • All foemen in pity beweep his woes; * Ah for freke whom the foeman pitieth! Arabian nights. English
  • Ms Palin has disqualified herself from that responsibility by showing a woeful grasp of policy.
  • -- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within? Catherine: a Story
  • But the squeaky-clean brands also benefited from others' woes in the horsemeat scandal. Times, Sunday Times
  • Demand is down across the globe as the economic woes continue to stifle growth. The Sun
  • Early indications suggested a woefully low turnout. Times, Sunday Times
  • Observing this, ‘It was an old song, old as the breed itself [and it was] vested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this plaint by which Buck was so strangely stirred.’
  • To add to its woes, last month Russia raised excise tax on beer and there is a risk that kiosk beer sales may be banned. Times, Sunday Times
  • I realize that Flower Markets are a dime a dozen, all over France, but they are woefully rare here in the US – and never with such a profusion of ranunculi, mimosas, and anemones! Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day
  • The condition of some of the roads in the region is woeful.
  • After all the pre-match hype it was woefully disappointing. The Sun
  • I said, giving him a woeful look behind my entirely smeared mascara.
  • And this one-sided tale of woe fuels a lopsided view of youth - as well as public agitation for still more draconian laws and punishments. Times, Sunday Times
  • Given more time to contemplate the nature of his existence, Doug One suffers from a woeful identity crisis.
  • By then, the venerable Ron Newman had given way to former U.S. national team coach Bob Gansler, but the Wizards woes continued.
  • Christ his pattern, which it is his duty to express in his own; and he who takes up Christianity on any other terms doth woefully deceive his own soul. Pneumatologia
  • If only the woes of the world could be settled over a grand "barney" on the Brighton beachfront as they were on the August Bank Holiday of '64. Andrew Loog Oldham: Mods & Rockers Festival: Mocking The Rockers
  • Do I write about how I have recently become a new man, or at least an old man with new possessions, or do I write about the recent woeful state of my blogging psyche?
  • Adding to Penguin's woebegone mental state, the guards and inmates have been continuously teasing him about his tattoo.
  • The couple are rumoured to be suffering marriage woes. The Sun
  • He walked or sat with his eyes continually fixed upon these feet -- reproachfully, it seemed -- as if their disproportion were a source of perennial woe; he carried his arms looped behind him, and had acquired a peculiar stoop -- to facilitate his vigilant guardianship of his feet, apparently. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy
  • Striker Colin Alcide will be out of action for up to six weeks piling on the injury woe for York City manager Neil Thompson.
  • He's also a terrible miser, hoarding gold in his attic while his poor young wife - who has agreed to the arrangement only to protect her woefully indebted father - wants for the smallest pat of butter.
  • Either you're woefully unprepared for a big test or you're naked.
  • What really galls me is that services for elderly people are woeful - disgraceful in fact - and these are people who have paid taxes all their lives.
  • Given in his oscillations of mood to a lugubrious woebegoneness ” "He could be just the saddest-looking thing," remembers Roger Wilkins, one of his administration deputies ” Johnson while president brooded ponderously over how he was discounted by the intellectual left as a blustering boor. The Big Guy
  • Sometimes a Mencken column went on for pages, and woe betide the subeditor who cut him. Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High
  • I was later to learn that my track positioning was woeful as I was pointing the kart out of corners instead of vice-versa - or was it the other way round?
  • We are not invited to admire or condemn, only to experience the humanity of a woman making a choice, for weal or woe.
  • The funds tend to get away with their woeful performance because once investors have money in a fund they do not tend to move it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Despite stock market woes, people are still buying housing lickety-split, fueled by piles of equity in their current properties and rock-bottom mortgage interest rates.
  • Again, last week saw tears of joy and tears of woe as the GCSE results came out.
  • Sure, a lack of food — or the high price of food — is the proximate cause of their woe, but what they need is not more food so much as greater productivity — and less reproductivity, I suppose. The Return of Thomas Malthus « Isegoria
  • O destiny! to what a life of pain and sorrow didst thou bear me beyond all men that ever were, e'en from the very first; yea for when I was yet unborn, or ever I had left my mother's womb and seen the light, Apollo foretold to Laius that I should become my father's murderer; woe is me! The Phoenissae
  • Determined to find a way to get myself to France, because my one day trip to St Malo during a family holiday to Jersey was clearly woefully inadequate for French oral purposes, I managed to find a penfriend through a magazine. French exchange
  • Newcomers are viewed skeptically until they "prove" their loyalty, and "woe betide anyone who walks into our house wearing that [hated team X] shirt! Pop Culture
  • For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • Or if it desisted from all rhetoric suggesting that it can solve its budget woes by further cutting Pentagon spending. A Republican Foreign Policy
  • All anew, all eternal, all enlinked, enlaced and enamoured, Oh, then did ye LOVE the world, — — Ye eternal ones, ye love it eternally and for all time: and also unto woe do ye say: Hence! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.
  • The brake pedal likewise; when fitted with anti-lock brakes, pedal response is woefully mushy.
  • But woe betide you if you make your splash with a financial killing or by getting a huge advance.
  • It has always done - and might always do given the woeful lack of improvement. Times, Sunday Times
  • And if someone is incapacitated and unable to make decisions for themselves, woe betide another person who might make a wrong decision for them.
  • Instead of the third woe being detailed, the grand consummation is summarily noticed, the thanksgiving of the twenty-four elders in heaven for the establishment of Christ's kingdom on earth, attended with the destruction of the destroyers of the earth. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy, the wall crumbles.
  • So, what we end up at is a determina that Hamlet should "throw to earth/This unprevailing woe," that he should abjure his own grief. Modality and Hamlet
  • There is no evolutionary continuum between the domains of life; organisms have either the bacterial, archaeal, or eukaryal character [although Woese et al. think some evidence may link the last two domains] … no exceptions are seen; no "gray area" exists between the archaeal and bacterial signatures; the ribosome is of either bacterial or archaeal nature. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • Demand is down across the globe as the economic woes continue to stifle growth. The Sun
  • WOERTH: Right now, the new security directives has additional limitations on what we call reciprocal jump seating. CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2001
  • The reason Woese et al. do not link the cellular architectures of the domains to a common cellular ancestor is they do not believe it is biologically possible to do so. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • His desperate financial woes, it seems, will finally be coming to a close.
  • This complete category of woe would suggest a bacterial throat infection needing antibiotics.
  • The midfielder is not exactly carrying a torch for his old manager but, for all the woe in his time in Scotland, he says he was a fan and still is.
  • Now the jetty of the Dive Centre within the complex marks the limit of Egyptian territory, and woe betide anyone who thinks they might meander northwards equipped with aqualung and fins.
  • I feel woefully inadequate to even review their programme because they left me speechless and with only the ability to utter superlatives.
  • The most marvelous tales of weeping and woe are preached in poetic extreme.
  • Then to restore a more cheerful atmosphere, Helen casts "nepenthe" into the wine, thanks to which beneficent drug all soon forget their woes. The Book of the Epic
  • Why has that woeful lack of numbers in the middle not been addressed before a drama has turned into a crisis? The Sun
  • The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated. Latest News
  • And when Satan's eyes are called "baleful," the word, besides indicating the "huge affliction and dismay" that he feels, gives a hint of the woes that are in store for the victims on whom those eyes have not yet lit. Milton
  • However, the reason it is truly grim is because it is badly sung (often woefully out of tune), poorly produced, and mixed in a food blender.
  • At times he came close to farce as he extolled its endless wonders as report after report detailed its woeful failures. Times, Sunday Times
  • SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Drew Gooden left the Chicago Bulls and their losing record last month before spending a couple weeks in woeful Sacramento. USATODAY.com
  • the woeful plight of homeless people
  • Google blames T-Mobile for Nexus One 3G woes branon SlashGear
  • Nor are the insights of happiness limited to what is near around you. Unhappy, with your thoughts turned in upon your emotional woes, your vision is cut short as though by a wall. Happy(Sentence dictionary), the wall crumbles.
  • The woeful lack of funding for troops has been an all too familiar theme. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Fleming’s lance was, of course, in its rest, and woe betide the faitour whose lot it was to encounter its thrust; the first fell, incapable of further combat, and another of the felons encountered the same fate with little more resistance. Castle Dangerous
  • The mighty chief, atheling excellent, unblithe sat, labored in woe for the loss of his thanes, when once had been traced the trail of the fiend, spirit accurst: too cruel that sorrow, too long, too loathsome. Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
  • Surely , surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!
  • I should say I ‘related’ to it I guess - enjoying other people's tales of woe sounds so vulturish, doesn't it?
  • His injury woes have cleared up significantly after selling his Mercedes, believing the strain from the pedals was creating muscle pulls by putting pressure on his back.
  • In this chapter, Jesus used the word woe eight times as a strong warning to those who, through legalism, were keeping people out of heaven. Surviving in an Angry World
  • The hint of flare was woefully insufficient and so subtle bright red insets had to be added for extra width.
  • When he wants to go for a walk, the dog sits by the door with a woebegone expression.
  • The credit-card issuer saw the growth of its credit woes slow a bit in its fiscal second quarter as shorter-term delinquencies and loan-loss provisions showed a slowdown from the prior quarter, despite being elevated from levels a year ago. BofA and J.P. Morgan Pace DJIA's Upturn
  • Woe betide the mother who has been forced into to having a sense of humor about disciplining her child, for she will bear no more offspring, but maybe get a dog instead.
  • The high rate of desertion has added to the army's woes.
  • The humility in her woeful eyes almost disclaims the homespun excellence of her clothes.
  • That darn dog-leg shape of the State is the real source of our financial woes.
  • Cue in immediate cries of woe from India and Brazil.
  • Johnnie has my profound sympathy under his examinatorial woes. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870
  • Rubble and slush from potholes and mud dumped recklessly by the cable companies and various civic agencies have only added to citizens' woes.
  • You're inviting a whole world of woe to come crashing down on your shoulders there. Times, Sunday Times
  • She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
  • He listened to my tale of woe.
  • They did not run last year, amid financial woes, and were expected to return this autumn. The Sun
  • Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris -- To have companions in woe is a solace to those who suffer. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • According to Woese and colleagues, the Darwinian threshold is the point in evolutionary history when the three domains, Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya, "crystallize" (Woese's term, 1998) their cellular architectures, which then become refractory to HGT. A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed. Chapter 9
  • Trojans put their recent woes behind them as they brushed aside a dispirited Beckwithshaw side.
  • If a man gain the use of wealth, peradventure he is diverted thereby from the remembrance of his Lord; if poverty choke him his heart is distracted by woe, or if disquietude waste his heart, weakness causeth him to fall. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • A study has shown that Carlow people are no softies when illness strikes and display much more determination when it comes to fighting their winter woes than the average Irish person.
  • I have no idea what to expect really, having only been to one very small convention before, and from which I think the most important thing I took away was the fact that I’m woefully disfluent in all things Doctor Who. 2010 Australian Specfic Snapshot: Stephanie Campisi
  • Only because of woeful finishing and ropey refereeing, though. The Sun
  • In this age of rotten service, crummy products and seething attitudes, you have accidentally stumbled onto a solution to those woes.
  • She has shown a woeful lack of judgment and should quit. Times, Sunday Times
  • To the fixer everyone confides his or her woes over delayed luggage, airport passes and the rest, knowing that they will be sorted out.
  • Traditional concepts of security were woefully inadequate to meet the new challenges faced by humankind.
  • Melbourne received Chris Heffernan in the deal and he's a better player than Woewodin who was lucky to win the 2000 Brownlow and yet was towelled up by Heffernan in the 2000 Grand Final.
  • For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
  • The British generals thoroughly understood what they called Lafayette's "gasconading disposition," and they relied upon it to work woe to his plans and to contribute to their own glory. Lafayette
  • You feel for her, with her recent woes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Shoppers continued to spend heavily at airports, despite woe on the high street. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hasan lay hidden beneath the settle, weeping-eyed and woeful-hearted, knowing not what was decreed to him in the secret preordainment of Allah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • After spending time with Gina and contemplating my own woefully juiceless existence, I resolved to do something about it.
  • ‘Surely,’ he wrote, ‘it is time to break with the lachrymose theory of pre-Revolutionary woe, and to adopt a view more in accord with historic truth.’
  • READERS gave their verdict on England's woeful performance on our website yesterday. The Sun
  • The whirlies tracked about in a most irregular manner and woe betide any light object which came in their path. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Woe to me that beheld in that hour his blessed body all bewrapped in his innocent blood. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
  • Finn and Larkins started to walk away from the bench that seated the 3 dispirited boys, all of whom were sighing with misery and woe.
  • When I did perceive that I was delivered from death, and reserved to be gelded, I was greatly sorrie, insomuch that I thought all the hinder part of my body and my stones did ake for woe, but I sought about to kill my selfe by some manner of meanes, to the end if I should die, I would die with unperished members. The Golden Asse
  • Intelligence about the enemy is woeful. Times, Sunday Times
  • Woe betide the person who doesn't cut back their overhanging vegetation as it severely compromises the safety of tall pedestrians with hats who use a particular footpath to mass.
  • United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
  • The evidence that the pitchers of woe about pending national insolvency are actually more worried about entitlements than insolvency is pretty clear to me: While entitlements are totally driving the long-term fiscal crisis, they have not a word of criticism for entitlements. Grading the President in Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • A shaming indictment of the woeful British attitude to sport at grassroots level, McKenna's story is difficult to believe.
  • Inspiration, -- _Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also_: and again -- _Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink_. Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
  • The trick is to monetize this buzz, to make liberal use of her celebrity pixie dust to undo the damage her legal woes did to her company.
  • He was brought up to believe in God and he has never felt with poignant sympathy enough the abysmal, immedicable woes of human-kind to have his faith disturbed. Christianity and Progress
  • The team's woeful record consists of six defeats in seven matches.
  • Of course, the commodity that we face false bad today still is a pair woebegone.
  • United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
  • The solution to the eurozone's woes must lie within Europe itself. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's also got its own currency, so, unlike the travails of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy or Spain, its woes don't require the endless fearful summitry of a disapproving euro zone, where progress comes in tiny increments if at all. U.K. Debt Plan Can't Cover All Its Sins
  • Woese then hazarded that such chimerism probably would not prove a significant problem, from the example provided by congruent alpha-proteobacterial trees based on cytochromes c and rRNA, from the general robustness of the rRNA phylogeny, and from its ability to predict certain domain-level phenotypic characters (for instance, the differences in bacterial and archaeal cell envelopes, transcription, and translation). A Disclaimer for Behe?
  • These financial woes also pose a threat to the democratic process. Times, Sunday Times
  • You get a sense that Belfast is a place where economic problems feed private woes.
  • He felt a tug on his heart as he watched her face, her woeful expression silhouetted by the moonlight.
  • She uses homeopathy to ease her woes. The Sun
  • Daisy, as we called the goat, would hate to be separated from her lambs and it was woe betide any dog that came near them.
  • It's really a dark piece of work, pretty much driven by Mozart's guilt over his father's death; in a lot of ways, I think it prefigures his requiem mass; a big, black truckload of woe.
  • Venezuelan president combatively defends 11-year rule and blames economic woes on western capitalism Hugo Chávez grants rare interview to western media
  • It was the interminable non-story about some guy's grad night woes that finally blew my patience out the back door.
  • I spoke to one Scottish applicant who appeared to be woefully oblivious to what the job actually entailed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Woe betide he who would hurt our loved ones, isn't that the way we all feel?
  • The pulmotor and similar mechanisms are, perhaps, the best things the use of which can be taught to laymen; but as compared to bronchoscopic oxygen insufflation they are woefully inefficient, because the intraoral pressure forces the tongue back over the laryngeal orifice, obstructing the airway in this "death zone. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • I drew closer and then nodded silent commiseration to one talkative fellow who was regaling the night with his woes. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • The eurozone's economic woes mean that there is a wariness about buying on the European mainland. Times, Sunday Times
  • He said that slower rate of growth and rapid increase of population has multiplied the woes of Northeast and halted its economic development.
  • Only a brief woebegone show of energy from a denim-clad fan to the front creates a slight tickle of fervour, which is a damn shame considering what the bruising the band dole out live. Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • On what might seem an unrelated note, the performance of American stock analysts was woefully inadequate in ferreting out and making public the all-too-obvious weaknesses in the mortgage securitization field, and the greed of all too many institutional investors in seeking “quick and unrealistic profits” was a major factor in creating the circumstances that led to the mortgage meltdown and the current recession. Writing the Whole Enchilada « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
  • Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • Sent forth to ferret out the shadowy terrorists, U.S. troops would go woefully unprotected against biological weapons.
  • Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame, All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown.
  • Even woeful diction can be excused, since, in the mad rush to expand radio, good announcers were not easy to come by.
  • The Pacers were woeful from the floor in the opening minutes - missing 14 of their first 18 shots - but Dunleavy did plenty to make sure Miami didn't open an early lead. USATODAY.com
  • Shoppers hitting the high street were urged to make the most of retailers' woes by haggling over prices. Times, Sunday Times
  • The initial baking was fine, but my decoration was woeful.
  • Then gave I myself to the sea, but the billows thereof cast me out aland, and to this king then was I given; then gave I Swanhild away out of the land with mighty wealth; and lo, my next greatest sorrow after Sigurd, for under horses feet was she trodden and slain; but the grimmest and ugliest of woes was the casting of Gunnar into the Worm-close, and the hardest was the cutting of The Story of the Volsungs
  • And his Wentworth woe was the fourth time this year he had gone agonisingly close.
  • The team's woeful record consists of six defeats in seven matches.

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