Their concern is understandable, given the building's sorry history.

It took Winston to redeem the family's sorry history, and it's hard to say where his nobility came from.

Both American industry and the public sector have had a sorry history of flavor-of-the-month programs.

He took the Cubs' chances with him, and extended their sorry history.

The sorry history of the American Indian is well known.

The Court said such a rigid quota program could not be justified, even by the "sorry history" of public and private discrimination.

It was not over Rowan's sorry history in the final, either.

But Munich is only one chapter in a long and sorry history.

The fight over the morning-after pill has a long and sorry history.

Activism among athletes has a sorry history because they rarely practice teamwork off the field.