bemoaning

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What Hansen seems to be bemoaning is the fact that, once elected, the candidates who had the approval of the AGW consensus side can no longer ignore reality in the form of the real and competitive world of trade, export income, citizens 'livelihoods, inflation and the limitations of the renewable technologies.

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  1. transitive verb To express grief over; lament.
  2. transitive verb To express disapproval of or regret for; deplore: "Tom Brokaw of NBC News recently bemoaned 'the cancer of the sound bite' afflicting Presidential campaigning” (John Tierney).

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  • What Hansen seems to be bemoaning is the fact that, once elected, the candidates who had the approval of the AGW consensus side can no longer ignore reality in the form of the real and competitive world of trade, export income, citizens 'livelihoods, inflation and the limitations of the renewable technologies. —  RealClimate
  • I realize I am naturally skilled at bemoaning but mostly it's the good kind of bemoaning, where you're exactly in the place you need to be to get to where you're going, with the occasional traffic snarls and detours and funyuns. —  CrazyAuntPurl
  • But Gingrich, bemoaning President Barack Obama's "monstrosity of a budget," acknowledged that Republicans are partially to blame for the escalation in federal spending. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • Corrupt dick Rep Don Young wants to have it both ways, sort of, with the bemoaning the sad treatment of his political hero but also not demanding crazy things. —  Gawker
  • I'm no public policy expert, but what limitations is Senator Daschle bemoaning? —  American Thinker
 

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