(1) Brazil, despite some woeful performances this year, is still the most successful international team but has not exactly been a political giant for most of its existence.
(2) Even if Honda manage to improve their woeful power unit and McLaren make improvements to their indifferent car, it is difficult to see the team running better than mid-table next term.
(3) The bill will allow same-sex marriage for the first time in the UK; it will offer the opportunity to convert civil partnerships to marriages; it will offer opt-in rights to religious establishments, with the exception of the Church of England; it will also allow transgender people to change their legal gender without dissolving their marriages (a woeful omission from earlier legislation).
(4) Herrera’s bending cross reached Depay and he punished Watford’s woeful marking by cushioning a firm volley past Heurelho Gomes.
(5) TOP-AND-BOTTOM-OF-THE-TABLE BEATINGS "Nottingham Forest's woeful 4-0 home defeat to Scunthorpe made me think: what's the worst defeat suffered by a team leading its league?"
(6) The woeful lack of clarity does not engender confidence and trust.
(7) His first touch is woeful and a shooting chance goes a begging.
(8) However, Nwofor capitalised on some woeful defending from Hanley in the 90th minute to sweep the ball home from close range.
(9) Labour’s communication strategy remains woeful, and it lacks the means to develop a grand narrative that ties this all together, or a way of getting out of the “but you caused the last crisis through your profligacy” trap.
(10) He’s a man that, at 22, clearly has the world at his feet.” Everton could not have wished for a better start as Villa’s woeful defending at set pieces was again exposed.
(11) This would be a woeful prospect when taken in isolation, but seems more reprehensible when we know that others with much greater liabilities (moral if not legal ones) are treated with kid gloves.
(12) Kevin Mountford of Moneysupermarket.com said most savers were still earning "very woeful rates" and could improve their returns by shopping around.
(13) "I've been shocked at how America's politicians have been cowed into a woeful, shameful virtual silence by the gun lobbyists and the all-powerful National Rifle Association in particular," Morgan said.
(14) The atomic lobby sometimes tries to pass off this woeful track record as ancient history, but it is not – just ask the Finns .
(15) Its computer systems are still woeful, with paper files still used more often than the tools of modern electronic case management.
(16) The figures in computing and engineering are woeful and I think that is to do with perceptions.
(17) I've gone for the 49ers 31-21, but I've had a pretty woeful playoffs as far as predictions go.
(18) Despite Cameron's promises that he would lead the campaign to empower women and ensure female equality, Britain ranks a woeful 65th in the world in terms of female representation in parliament behind Kazakhstan, Lesotho and even Afghanistan.
(19) Their own civil servants have already advised them that 40,000 more children would fall into poverty as a result of extending the cap (this is likely to be a woeful underestimate of the true figure).
(20) And the public accounts committee has decried the woeful success rate of his schemes.
Woefully
Definition:
(adv.) Alt. of Wofully
Example Sentences:
(1) The palace and the politicians expect a smooth succession to the reign of Charles III, even though he is a man who has spent his life demonstrating how woefully unqualified he is to be a constitutional king.
(2) Overall, the steps taken so far are woefully insufficient.” In November the Qatari ministry of labour issued a statement saying it was doing everything possible to improve working conditions.
(3) Bercow accused Hammond of a "woefully inadequate" and "utterly incompetent" performance after the shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy , was forced to respond to a statement with no idea about which bases would close.
(4) The Nottingham Forest defender Kelvin Wilson was the unfortunate player, hopelessly miskicking an attempted clearance of Allan Nyom’s cross, enabling Ighalo to drive in his 15th goal of the season, but it was that sort of match: high on effort but woefully low on quality and goalmouth incident, until a final frantic few minutes.
(5) Arsenal need to play high, and he is woefully unable to play as part of a trap, or at least he has been this season.
(6) At least one analysis , from the left-leaning Center for American Progress, found the Republican plan would fall woefully short in providing coverage to individuals with preexisting conditions.
(7) Or its decision to limit Ofcom’s investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s Sky bid to the woefully inadequate 40 days.
(8) Funding shortages Other local bodies appear woefully unprepared.
(9) Decades of woefully inadequate information and communications technology curriculums in secondary schools have left academia perpetually five years (at least) behind the workplace, and they're only now trying to make up the ground.
(10) The force is woefully short of looking like the city it serves, and London’s ethnic minority population is 40% and forecast to grow.
(11) They set an export target of £1 trillion by 2020, but they are falling woefully short, and the latest figures show our balance of payments deficit is the highest on record.
(12) They also warn that too much of the NHS's infrastructure and practices are woefully unprepared for the growing numbers of frail elderly people and those with at least one long-term condition.
(13) Current systems for delivery of mental health services to children and adolescents are woefully inefficient, inadequate, and fragmented.
(14) A few minutes later, when the document was finally distributed among MPs, the speaker said: "The administration of this matter has been woefully inadequate and, frankly, utterly incompetent.
(15) But if I stay here, it’s just like my country … I need to go to Europe.” Risking death in the Mediterranean: the least bad option for so many migrants Read more In Misrata, a major Libyan port, coastguards told the Guardian that the smuggling trips would continue to rise because Libyan officials were woefully under-resourced.
(16) Public healthcare and education, in particular, remained woefully underfunded.
(17) With talented but underachieving home players including, most notably, the woefully disappointing Gini Wijnaldum once again failing to make the desired impact, it was left to the outstanding Matt Ritchie and his Bournemouth team-mates to leave McClaren’s immediate future shrouded in considerable uncertainty.
(18) The payments scheme, which NHS England has introduced to increase woefully low levels of dementia diagnosis, has been condemned as “odious” and “an intellectual and ethical travesty”.
(19) Rather, the minerals industry seeks only to create a more streamlined process in meeting environmental outcomes through the removal of unnecessary and costly duplication.” But this argument has been challenged by WWF , which attacks industry justification for the move as being based upon “woefully inadequate economics”.
(20) The group, which won a ruling against the government in the supreme court over its failures on air pollution last year, says the environment department’s recently published plans to cut pollutants fall “woefully short” of what the court ordered.