China s leaders called it frustrating.

What is dispiriting is that we ponder these arguments so infrequently.

It is extremely disappointing that a minister can be talking about such a serious issue in this way!

The result was a disappointing, all but jobless recovery.

Both now face major problems with disillusioned populations.

MOSCOW The history of authoritarian rule in Russia displays a certain depressing regularity.

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But can one go so far as to say that a depressed country can produce only a depressed team?

In order to save face, the disappointed and ashamed Minister of Defense has pleaded for information on BLA from the locals.

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

Measured against a disappointing past, even Germany is currently experiencing an economic boom.

In an interview a few months ago, Wang Hongzhang, the chairman of China Construction Bank, indirectly expressed his subdued enthusiasm for Europe.

Above all, they could not break the frustrating diplomatic gridlock over Syria or stem the escalation in violence as the year went on.

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.

In the future, close cooperation between Germany and France will more than ever form the old and new center of gravity in a blocked EU.

But it is difficult to predict whether such a division of labor with the disenchanted former Social Democrat Oskar Lafontaine will be possible.

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.

I realise this year how late we are in talking about the third anniversary of the Syrian revolution. It is as if delaying talk about it will change the depressing reality.

What really frustrates us, he commented, is to be commissioned by a pharmaceutical company to design an early phase trial when we know already that it is going up a blind alley.

After several years of disappointing performance, the authorities are shifting to policies aimed at boosting the annual growth rate closer to the roughly 9 level that India achieved from 2004 to 2008.

Businesses that ought to be expanding and hiring cannot, because the depressed general level of financial asset prices prevents them from borrowing money or selling bonds on profitable terms.

It's really depressing to me how even an issue like raising the minimum wage, which should have appeal across sectarian lines, inevitably turns into an excuse for thugs from vying political parties to fight in the street.

So, not surprisingly, they have provoked excitement in some circles that the US may finally be poised to leave behind the depressing trio of unusually sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and high and growing inequality.

It was depressing to see a simple appeal for Westerners to listen to Muslim women deliberately distorted into a representation of all Muslim women as meek, will less beings in need of rescue.

Disappointingly, many Europeans have responded to this humanitarian crisis, which closely resembles the one that Europe endured a century ago, by opposing their countries acceptance of any more refugees. How quickly we forget our past.

NEW DELHI The Indian economy is coming back. After several years of disappointing performance, the authorities are shifting to policies aimed at boosting the annual growth rate closer to the roughly 9 level that India achieved from 2004 to 2008.

In response to this daunting figure, the international development community, including the Millennium Project, the Governing Council of UN Habitat and the Commission on Sustainable Development at its thirteenth session, debated the relevance of the targeted level of 100 million slum dwellers.

They were denied their fundamental right to self determination and also had to cope with the extremely precarious material and moral conditions found in any refugee camp. However, far from adopting a defeatist attitude, the Saharan people, being convinced of the rightness of their cause and the legitimacy of their struggle, had achieved in the camps what they had not achieved in Western Sahara.

It can be cause only for celebration that the world s largest developing economies are regularly talking to each other and establishing common initiatives. Nonetheless, it is disappointing that they have chosen to focus on infrastructure finance as their first major area of collaboration.

The result was a disappointing, all but jobless recovery. In the US, unemployment was still 14 in 1937, four full years into the recovery, and in 1940, on the eve of the country s entry into World War II.

As a Frenchman who watched with a mixture of sadness and humiliation the behavior of the French national team, on and off the field (happily, the torture is over), the image in the mirror makes a lot of sense. But can one go so far as to say that a depressed country can produce only a depressed team?