Preserving order was the only reason Valerius had for being in the room just now, one of the first to learn the lamentable situation.

Every attention was paid to this meritorious Officer that his lamentable situation demanded.

How this lamentable situation came about is a mystery.

It is a lamentable situation, he added, because the sickest patients are being denied the surgery that may help them.

What a lamentable situation was that of the poor baron!

A committee was set up to correct this lamentable situation.

Perhaps you might be able to contribute to resolving this lamentable situation.

We all know it, but the nub of the lamentable situation is this.

The Council is deeply disturbed at the present lamentable situation of the refugees and displaced persons in eastern Zaire.

The plight of more than 2,000 indefinitely detained Cubans continues - their lamentable situation practically consigned to oblivion.