But the reality was disappointing.

Education in this world disappoints me.

That would be very disappointing.

The labor market has been similarly disappointing.

For Europe and the United States, 2010 was a year of disappointment.

Well deserved, despite the disappointing referendum result.

Argentina s long term GDP growth has been disappointing.

Employment growth continues to disappoint, and fears of deflation will not go away.

Sales figures and profitability were disappointing, and Autolatina was dissolved in 1995.

The level of agreement on the Human Rights Council is a disappointment.

The United Nations Disarmament Commission remains a great disappointment.

Excellent ideas for progress exist but their implementation awaits more frustratingly distant days.

Other than in oil producing countries, development in West Asian countries has been disappointing.

Progress on trade has been similarly disappointing.

That pitfall was avoided despite a difficult and at times disappointing discussion.

The outcome of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty was undeniably frustrating.

The low level of women's participation in political and public life was particularly disappointing.

As a result, we simply do not know if the recovery will be solid or disappointing.

If anything, the correction might have come sooner, given disappointing macroeconomic data in recent months.

The efforts of the previous two Presidents of the General Assembly were commendable but progress so far had been disappointing.

He found that, owing to capital flight and political pressure for delay, the results were often disappointing.

The survey of those mechanisms submitted to the Economic and Social Council had been disappointing.

We wish therefore to convey our distress indeed, we find the report of the Secretary General disappointing.

Life in New Zealand at first was hard and disappointing Mountfort found that there was little call for architects.

To delay such actions is a direct and immediate threat to the fragile hopes of peace that have been rekindled in the region.

Nonetheless, it is disappointing that they have chosen to focus on infrastructure finance as their first major area of collaboration.

We are frustrated, however, by its misuse on procedural issues to prevent the initiation of such work.

The failure of FNL to pursue contacts with either the Government of Burundi or that of the United Republic of Tanzania was disappointing.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that Obama passed barely three weeks after his inauguration was disappointing.

However, it crashed twice, and proved to generate a disappointing amount of lift, and was difficult to transition to horizontal flight.

The first is the issue of non proliferation vis à vis the disappointing failure of the 2005 NPT Review Conference in May this year.

Disappointing first quarter growth data have already led foreign investors to have second thoughts about keeping money in China.

For the European Union, the leading authority in international climate policy, the outcome of the Copenhagen summit was particularly disappointing.

The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, despite recent disappointing developments, still remains the cornerstone in our efforts to strengthen the non proliferation regime.

It is indeed discouraging that we find ourselves at the same place year after year that is to say, in non agreement on an agenda.

Our commitment has only been reinforced by the disappointing Review Conference and the inability to reach consensus, at the world summit, on language on non proliferation and disarmament.

But, judging by the evidence that we have, austerity programs in Europe and elsewhere appear likely to yield disappointing results.

In fact, opponents often assert that commercial cultivation of GM crops has been a disappointment, because it has offered little direct benefit to consumers.

And the preliminary estimate for annual GDP growth in the first quarter of 2012 was a disappointing 2.2 , with only a 1.6 rise in final sales.

While this is disappointing, it is an improvement on anything Russia has ever experienced, except briefly.

It is profoundly dangerous to the economy. And it imperils the Fed s future ability to take action as needed.

To be sure, although 2004 was one of the region s better years in terms of economic growth, the outcome of two decades of so called structural reform remains disappointing.

Moreover, America s Asian pivot is occurring at a time when its international credibility has been badly eroded by domestic political dysfunction and disappointing performance in the Middle East.

As a result, the ultimate revenue gains are likely to prove disappointing, as Sweden discovered when it attempted to tax financial transactions two decades ago.

These shortfalls in international political will were disheartening to the EU, which made clear throughout the Conference its strong support for a strengthened nuclear non proliferation and disarmament regime.