The sector s domestic value chain is woefully weak.

Progress towards their goals has been woefully inadequate.

But, though well intended, the principles are woefully inadequate.

But existing efforts to alter the situation remain woefully inadequate.

Truly , we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day .

But there is another, woefully under reported, side to the story.

But these numbers are woefully inadequate relative to the magnitude of the problem.

If the world s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared.

Statistical information on most every facet of the lives of women and girls is woefully inadequate.

Much as we believe that development is our responsibility, our means of self reliance are woefully insufficient.

Specifically, that means social security, private pensions, and medical and unemployment insurance plans that exist on paper but are woefully underfunded.

The situation is different in emerging economies, where the quantity and quality of the existing stock of housing is woefully inadequate.

In the eyes of most Asian policymakers, the proposed contribution by the West, especially America, towards solving the problem is woefully inadequate.

As such, the debt burden woefully understates the obligations that Greeks have to each other (largely in the form of family obligations).

But neither can we accept a situation in which vast resources are spent on national cohesion, while European cohesion lags so woefully behind.

The bottom line is that urbanization, schooling, and Internet access are woefully insufficient to transmit effectively the tacit knowledge required to be productive.

Those rich countries are failing woefully to meet their own solemnly declared targets of ODA amounting to 0.7 per cent of their gross domestic product.

The fact remains, however, that this issue is very much unresolved precisely because the critical element of implementation of the decolonization mandate has been woefully insufficient.

No governing party can afford such woefully incompetent ministers and leadership Merkel had merely to stand back and watch the liberals public suicide over the last four years.

Part of the reason is that corruption remains high and administrative capacity to levy taxes remains woefully limited. Meanwhile, low income Greek households have borne the brunt of austerity.

Developed countries employ 12 times the per capita number of scientists and engineers in research and development than developing countries, where there is often a woefully weak institutional capacity.

So, while the rebirth of the Taliban is in part due to the woefully neglected reconstruction of the Pashto Southern and Eastern part of the country, it also has external causes.

As international bureaucracies with a penchant for best practices and common standards, these institutions are woefully unsuited to the task of seeking innovative, unique pathways suited to each country s particular circumstances.

With regard to the attainment of the MDGs and other goals, there was grave concern that recent reviews of the status of implementation had indicated that progress had been woefully inadequate.

If the world s center of gravity shifts to Asia, however, Americans will be woefully unprepared. Many Americans remain shockingly unaware of how much the rest of the world, especially Asia, has progressed.

I think this true marriage of art and information is woefully underused in adult literature, and I'm mystified as to why visual wealth is not more commonly used to enhance intellectual wealth.

On the other hand, most of us are woefully inadequate to practice the venerable and vital art of baloney detection (or, more politely, critical thinking), which is so necessary in modern society.

Especially important is the proposal to channel 30 of the profits of state owned enterprises (SOEs) currently running at close to 400 billion into the country s woefully under funded social safety net.

There is an outflow of capital from developing regions either to meet those rising costs or to be invested in the developed world, leaving those regions woefully short of capital for investment.

Yet even the United Nations appeal for 560 million to cover immediate funding of relief and recovery in the south remains woefully underfunded, with only 10 per cent pledged or contributed so far.

But this aspiration will remain elusive without acknowledging the sad fact that most Americans remain woefully ignorant about the basic facts of Islam, and about the broad geographic and cultural diversity of Muslim cultures.

And if actually we created a Ministry of Detail and business actually had Chief Detail Officers, then that fourth quadrant, which is so woefully neglected at the moment, might finally get the attention it deserves.

Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction. Yet, while pledges to increase development assistance have soared, short term funding is woefully inadequate.

While international treaties, national laws, more and stronger institutions, improved education, and efforts by organized religious groups to foster respect for minorities can help to ameliorate the problem, collective efforts have so far fallen woefully short.

That day will arrive sooner if governments spend a lot more money on low carbon energy research, which is woefully inadequate. Every nation should ideally commit to spending 0.05 of GDP exploring non carbon emitting energy technologies.

Financial markets leaped forward in eighteenth century Great Britain, and in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Japan and the US a time when several key institutions, such as corporate law and the court system, were woefully substandard.

The modern sense of building a pan Asian community began with the traumatic East Asian financial and economic crisis of 1997, when all the countries of the Asia Pacific region learned the hard way that national reforms and protections could turn out to be woefully inadequate.

Yet at the same time, assistance to displaced people in Darfur is falling well short of what had been pledged, while major crises, such as the one in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where more than 3.8 million people have been killed and 2.3 million displaced since 1997, remain woefully underfunded.

And it has not been strengthened by the Libyan revolution, but rather by the failure of state building in North Mali, the absence of post conflict reconciliation and reintegration in Algeria, and a lack of accountability for a shadowy Algerian security establishment whose brutal methods have proved woefully inadequate to the challenge.