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  • Pitifully, the Western countries hold a different view of China's human rights despite the country's actual conditions and its people's attitudes, wrote Dong Yunhu, vice president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, in its November journal.

    U.S.-China kick off talks on human rights 2011

  • Pitifully, the Western countries hold a different view of China's human rights despite the country's actual conditions and its people's attitudes, wrote Dong Yunhu, vice president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, in its November journal.

    U.S.-China kick off talks on human rights 2011

  • Pitifully, too many Dems cowered at the margins or rode the stinking wave (Hila-ahem-ry).

    House Dem Staffer: Liberals Are Worried That Leadership Will Cave On Iraq 2009

  • Pitifully few of our children have had much, or any early childhood education by the time the enter school formally.

    REPORT: BEIJING + 5 2000

  • Pitifully thin, covered with cuts and welts that would soon be ugly bruises, she moaned in pain when Jean tried to move her.

    Pawns and Symbols Majliss Larson 2000

  • Pitifully few are the stones remaining to mark the graves of that vanguard of English colonization.

    Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins

  • Pitifully the storm blew her into his arms, a tossed and straying thing that could not speak for sobs; pitifully and with a rough incoherent sound he gathered and held her in that refuge.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Pitifully few, but they were filled with a wonderful fascination against which the realities of his wandering life had been powerless to contend.

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

  • Pitifully she put out her arms and drew it to her breast, but detected for herself the fundamentally insincere kindness that a stranger will show to a child, confident that before long it will be claimed by its own kin.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Pitifully small his capital looked to Fairchild now.

    The Cross-Cut Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

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