Expectations of well being Richard Lazarus asserts that people become accustomed to positive or negative life experiences which lead to favorable or unfavorable expectations of their present and near future circumstances.

We the people have become inured to our own irrelevance when it comes to doing anything significant about anything that matters concerning governance, beyond waiting another four years.

The election was always going to be a challenge, all the more so because, following the end of military rule in 1999, Nigerian politicians had become habituated to rigging polls.

Like the Spanish, they were used to it.

A world fit for mammals. From tiny shrews came tenrecs, accustomed to the dark.

While Indians have traditionally been wary of buying online, owing to their distrust of digital security, in recent years the urban middle class has become increasingly accustomed to using the Internet to purchase airline tickets, reserve hotel rooms, and order books.

And what you might get and anything that actually refers to things that we are used to, you throw away.

I wanted to put heart and soul and people, your public, around the statistics that we've become so used to.

They became citizens of Japan.

Americans, despite the attacks of September 11, 2001, are not.

They have also become disobedient.

Palestinians on the whole have been further radicalized.

More than 1,000 are missing, and many are presumed dead.

Citizens are coarsened by the casual brutality meted out to a minority, and become inured to it.

Soldiers from the Ninth Battalion had been in the region since 1999, and regularly looted civilian property.

In time faster this time I became accustomed to the cycle of victim murderer.

Since the uprisings started around the Arab world, we have become accustomed to seeing the image of thousands of protesters taking to the squares and streets.

They came under Frankish rule in 822.

Activists in America are now accustomed to assuming that their emails are being read and their phone calls monitored.

My parents were radicals who became, well, grown ups.

They become leaders partly through commitment to the agreed plan.

The Germans are now much too nice for that.

To me they all became Bashar Al Assad, not just his victims.

These are well meaning doctors, some of them have gone on to become very good friends.

And they said, Well, they became our Native Americans here in the U.S.

And they found that 100 percent of the children that had not eaten the marshmallow were successful.

Not surprisingly, foreign investors no longer favor Putin s Russia.

Indeed, they are us while remaining themselves.

In their eyes, Hezbollah has become a heroic model of resistance.

But that is arguably much more likely to happen when soldiers have become inured to lawlessness in their own ranks.

So they got very interested in producing convulsions, measured types of convulsions.

He believes that they view themselves as victims and have become dependent on the government.

As a result, they are increasingly vulnerable to poor health.

With the Norman Conquest, they became the ruling aristocracy of Anglo Saxon England.

And we take this utterly for granted, because we're a species that is so at home with language, but you have to realize that even the simplest acts of exchange that we engage in are utterly dependent upon language.

Now these people find themselves exposed to the Public Security Bureaus.

To a certain extent, all our politicians become pawns in the regional chess game.

Little by little he receded, tucked in his palace while the most truthful manifestation of him and his regime was that torturer in the prison, that soldier on the field, that chopper in the sky.

They've incurred violent infractions by becoming violent with guards and with other prisoners.

It is the victims of predatory lenders who need government help.

Fortunately, these new donors are becoming trusted partners in Africa.

Celebrities, his work was saying, have replaced religious figures.

In short, European policymakers are in an impossible position.

Having lost their homes and parents, they sleep in alleys, sell cigarettes or newspapers, and beg.

They became a romantic pair appearing in a total of four films together.