Woefully

But David Mondragon says the government can help his company and the auto sector in general by scrapping Ottawa's $300 scrappage program for older cars, which he calls woefully inadequate.

And while the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been crowing over its record number of deportations, it's suspiciously mum when it comes to the record number of detainees that still languish in woefully mismanaged detention facilities. ❋ The Media Consortium (2010)

Pure exhilaration is in woefully short supply at the movies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where we have failed woefully is in how we deal with our own staff, he says. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Americans remain woefully uninformed about modern-day Brazil. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Americans remain woefully ignorant about the true state of affairs in the world. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Further, early exposure to older styles of writing, with their deeper vocabulary and more complex sentence structure will open up doors that will remain woefully shut if a child reads nothing more than contemporary literature written within the past fifty years. ❋ Roger Sutton (2007)

Doctors, hospitals and mental-health facilities are in woefully short supply. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When I pointed out on another thread that the US intelligence agencies remain woefully short of staff competent in Arabic, Farsi, etc. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In case you regularly check out only one Hollywood Reporter blog rather than both -- and honestly, your life will remain woefully incomplete until you bookmark and make a habit of visiting each -- my esteemed colleagues Anne Thompson and Sheigh Crabtree and Anne's indispensable RiskyBiz blog have linked to the mega neat-o two-minute My Life. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, our "suffering," as they called it, paled beside the round-the-clock hardships these women and their families endured as they tried to salvage food crops from the beleaguered soil, find clean water to drink when the rivers were either virtually dry or churning with swallowed debris, and protect their health and their belongings within woefully inadequate shelters. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Baseball's policies on such matters remain woefully inadequate, including that joke-of-a-steroid-testing program (or, more accurately, non-program) included in last year's new labor agreement. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The word was woefully inadequate—she was radiant, the most dazzling star in the sky. ❋ Melanie George (2006)

Obama inherited a federal work force of about 2 million that Paul Light, public-service professor at New York University, described as woefully understaffed, especially to fulfill his bold domestic agenda. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom said the state's public defenders are "woefully" underfunded after the cutbacks of the past two years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Falana had asked the Court to acquit the soldiers since the prosecution had failed "woefully" to prove the charge of mutiny against the suspects. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Because, as I was rawther FORCEFULLY reminded this past week, my kids are kind of woefully underchored. ❋ Unknown (2009)