As recently as December 2012, Conservative MP Philip Hollobone called it a "disgracefully inadequate estimate".

BBC: UK Politics

But the conflicts of interest inherent to investment banks became disgracefully sharper during the long 1990s bull market.

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In 2008, the IOC disgracefully agreed to let China block access to Internet sites in the Beijing games.

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The FDA has disgracefully prolonged and complicated the approval process, thereby endangering--and losing--the lives of countless thousands of women.

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It was set hard by the harbor wall, with Mweelrea Mountain across the water, and disgracefully gray skies above.

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In the Daily Telegraph, Charles Moore says the episode of Radio 4's The Reunion about the spy Anthony Blunt was disgracefully one-sided.

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The attorney-general has come disgracefully close to dismissing the normal court system as a legal circus, unsuitable for the war against terror.

ECONOMIST: Liberty v security

So heads should roll, led by the head of that system, the Speaker of the House of Commons, who has disgracefully treated the entire episode as an impertinent invasion of his privacy.

ECONOMIST: Parliamentary expenses

Since the previous election he has twice prorogued parliament for disgracefully lengthy periods, the second time to avoid awkward questions about whether his officials lied to the house about the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan.

ECONOMIST: Canada's general election

This announcement has been handled disgracefully.

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