(a.) Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, has said the remote scheme will require people to work five days a week, 12 months a year to get the dole, compared with the six months the government will require of benefit recipients in urban and regional areas.
(2) Job seekers will learn the behaviours expected of workers, for example by there being immediate consequences for passive welfare behaviour.” It says the continuous work for the dole for all 18- to 49-year-olds, is being introduced only in remote Australia, because in those areas there are “limited or no real labour markets, as well as unique social problems that stem from passive welfare.
(3) The core hypothesis deduced from the Dole-Nyswander blockade formulation is that methadone is a sufficient but not necessary condition for abstinence from heroin.
(4) Labor doled out some money for trades training centres in high schools and Abbott had money for netball courts in Caboolture.
(5) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
(6) He announced the news in a series of doleful tweets, first asking Wiggins if he fancied a city break and then posting a picture of his Tour bike, claiming it was for sale.
(7) They are also, in practice, in support of arguments that claimants are on the fiddle with a net 17% more believing "most people on the dole are fiddling one way or another".
(8) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(9) The Labour proposal is intended to be compulsory for the young unemployed after they have had a year on the dole, whereas work experience was voluntary for a week, and mandatory thereafter.
(10) The over-hyped and widely trailed Question Time has been an exercise in what it was always going to be: a public outpouring of anti fascist sentiments and establishing anti racist credentials, with the BNP positioning itself as the champion of white working class interests.The BBC can pat itself on the back for its high viewing ratings when the count is done; the panellists can go back to what they were doing and the struggle for equality, fairness and justice will intensify, not on television, but on the streets, the estates, in the playgrounds, the workplace and the dole queues.
(11) In that case, requiring people to work for the dole and apply for 40 jobs a month is merely a pathway to demoralisation.
(12) The reformed RJCP will give job seekers the opportunity to be continuously engaged in work for the dole activities, five days a week, all year round – just like a real job.
(13) Some of the proposals would have had their own senate inquiries in the past,” he said, referring to planned changes such as stripping under-30s of dole for six months at a time, reviewing people who are on the disability support pension (DSP) and changes to the family tax benefit which are included in amendment bills 1 and 2 being examined by the senate.
(14) June Brown, the favourite to become the first soap actress to win the best actress Bafta for her role as EastEnders' doleful launderette attendant Dot Branning, lost to Anna Maxwell Martin, who won her second Bafta in a row after last year's surprise win for Bleak House.
(15) This was an educator singing in a doleful prison cell; Seldon, the Birdman of Berkshire. "
(16) He was married with children, he'd been sacked from his job as a hosiery mechanic and like all sacked people, he was refused dole.
(17) Paul Kenny, GMB general secretary There is widespread revulsion that the government is deliberately adding to the dole queues at a time when the economy has not recovered from the "bankers recession".
(18) But Freeman doled out advice along with the punches.
(19) Despite worrying he would become a "professional dream smasher", he soon learned not to fret about the rejections he was doling out.
(20) And I look forward to him being a good president.” The video sought to remind the public of just how big an advocate Bush once was before he took to doling out what Rubio’s campaign dubbed as “phony attacks”.
Lament
Definition:
(v. i.) To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
(v. t.) To mourn for; to bemoan; to bewail.
(v.) Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.
(v.) An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Foster has long admired the speed with which these were built, and laments how Britain has dithered about London's airports.
(2) The screen-printing evening is taking place in Bushwick, an area known for – or lamented as – being the hippest part of Brooklyn.
(3) The debates and the campaign are increasingly covered as entertainment,” Rubio said, lamenting the networks’ hunt for ratings.
(4) Prior to the constitutional reform bill being introduced last July, Mandelson had lamented in an interview with the Financial Times that it was "not legally possible" for him to stand again as an MP.
(5) In an interview with the Qingdao Morning Post, one man lamented how in recent years his wife had frittered away 130,000 yuan (£13,500) of their hard-earned savings on Double Eleven purchases – thus dashing their dreams of buying a new home.
(6) If peerages are in effect being sold, the academics argue, “these could be thought of as the ‘average price’ per party.” Former Liberal Democrat peer, Matthew Oakeshott, who on leaving the Lords in May last year lamented that his efforts to uncover cash-for-honours deals across the parties had failed, told the Observer that the case against the system, and the parties, was now compelling.
(7) Alongside that political failing is a lamentable failure of the police command culture.
(8) Calling on Israel to “break with its lamentable track record” and hold wrongdoers responsible, the hard-hitting report commissioned by the UN human rights council lays most of the blame for Israel’s suspected violations at the feet of the country’s political and military leadership.
(9) He also expresses his lament that Australia’s $46 million bid, which earned one vote as the World Cup was controversially awarded to Qatar, never stood a chance.
(10) Farah addressed the media in Birmingham on Saturday, lamenting his name being “dragged through the mud” because of his links to Salazar, despite no allegations of wrongdoing against him personally.
(11) Although that guarantee is traditionally understood to prohibit intentional discrimination under existing laws, equal protection does not end there … to know the history of our nation is to understand its long and lamentable record of stymieing the right of racial minorities to participate in the political process.” Justice Elena Kagan, another of the court’s liberals, sat out of the case due to conflicts of interest.
(12) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
(13) Or you might find it rather sad that someone who spends a lot of their time lamenting how society's unrealistic beauty standards are used to control and oppress women is a victim of those same standards.
(14) But recounting the story of one of the key experiences of European integration, the painter and decorator sounded elegiac, as if describing not current realities but those of a lamented past.
(15) The deputy prime minister, Bülent Arinc, one of the co-founders of the ruling Islamic-rooted Justice and Development party (AKP), made the comment while lamenting the moral decline of modern society.
(16) For veterans of the women's movement there may be something unnerving about hearing the familiar slogans from Tory mouths – a sense that, as a female columnist lamented recently of Mensch, these late converts are "the wrong kind" of feminists.
(17) Wenger, though, warmed to a familiar theme when he lamented the importance that is attached to incoming signings.
(18) Hollande vowed to tackle France's standing as the most pessimistic country in Europe , "perhaps in the world", lamenting: "There are countries at war who are more optimistic than us."
(19) On Twitter , Wade lamented what he called another “act of senseless gun violence” which meant “4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON”.
(20) "We didn't make any mistakes today," Poyet lamented.