If Rwanda taught us anything, it should be that the U.N. is a woeful instrument for responding to an emergency.
Competition between schools would do more than any amount of bureaucratic direction to raise the often woeful standards of American primary and secondary education.
Despite only scoring twice all season and having a woeful goal difference of minus 225, the village football team have managed to stay off the bottom of the table.
Last night Beijing was in strong wind with woeful sounds.
Some of the criticism was no doubt grossly unfair but the twins’ woeful tactics left Poland marginalised.
The forehead-slap of hindsight, the woeful fuel of country ballads, the self-recrimination I feel for eating a quart of pudding in a crafty but unsuccessful attempt to avoid writing this column.
Stroeve gave me a look with his woeful eyes.
The woeful state of the economy, he said, is “a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some”.
And part of the fall in inequality (which began in 2001, before Lula took office) stems from a big effort over the past quarter of a century to expand Brazil's previously woeful education.
Nigeria's woeful electricity supply and poor roads make it hard for entrepreneurs to flourish, or even get by.
Its infrastructure is in woeful shape.
Community leaders say downtown office towers and new professional sports teams can't eclipse the woeful litany of unmet needs that feed juvenile crime.
The ports' records were in woeful shape, tracking the movement of only one-third of those boats during the six-year research period.
Dwarfs, Elves and Men alike all have woeful tales to tell of this monster of an Orc. At night, mothers tell their children to be good, 'lest Grimgor gets them.
Ah Liu suddenly entered with a woeful look and asked for a tip.
The next government must deal with a woeful inheritance of vaulting public debt.
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