Others used the opportunity to plead for information about the shooting and to deplore such senseless violence.

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There are all sorts of reasons to deplore the fact that banks would once again be propped up by public money.

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Though jazz fans are always prone to deplore the omission of personal favourites, the most obvious gap in Mr O'Meally's assortment is not his fault: Ray Charles's managers apparently refused permission for his work to be included.

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Dower is not the first writer to describe the trials as "victors' justice" or to deplore the hypocrisy in branding as war criminals people who would soon not only walk free but serve in senior government posts.

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By comparison, the front-runners seem creatures of their electoral machines, less able to reverse the pervasive cynicism that candidates all deplore.

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"We deplore that this resolution was used to introduce this precedent, " Mexican Ambassador to the United Nations Adolfo Aguilar Zinser said after the session.

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Wales's language disputes are certainly nothing to those of Belgium, where personal relations between the Flemish and Walloon communities can be rancorous, or of Quebec, where English-speakers have left in droves. (In fact, the English continue to come to Wales in substantial numbers, something many language activists deplore.) Even those who do not speak the language say they are proud of it.

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The administration has proposed a host of increases in user fees and tobacco taxes to raise revenue that could offset higher spending, a strategy the Republicans deplore.

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"I deplore the leaks that have taken place, " he said on a trip to Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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