The countries highest on the ladder of life satisfaction are Denmark, Finland, and Norway.

Such perceived inequality may cause dissatisfaction, mistrust and result in unfair practices.

In contrast to French and British unhappiness with the treaty, Italy gained stability for the first time in the 18th century.

Silence gives consent.

Silence gives consent.

But the other lesson of life that is rarely mastered is the art of fulfillment.

Those votes partly reflected displeasure with domestic policies, and partly disappointment with the way governments conduct European affairs.

MOSCOW A pox on both your houses may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political candidates on offer in an election.

Many other countries including the United Kingdom are now following Bhutan s lead in surveying their citizenry about life satisfaction.

The challenge in this field will be to guard against complacency, while not overburdening the system with excessive regulation.

While Morsi s supporters have also shown resilience, increased support for other religious parties reflects dissatisfaction with the Brotherhood s performance even among Islamists.

Now is no time for cynical complacency.

Markets, too, have fallen into a state of relative complacency.

The costs of complacency are not.

Cyprus has shattered this complacency.

How one combines quantity and quality in some index of life satisfaction is a matter of morals rather than economics, so it is not surprising that most economists stick to their quantitative measures of welfare.

To be sure, impatient dissatisfaction has been a driving force behind European integration since its initial years.

But one party rule breeds complacency, corruption, and political sclerosis.

The marital partners by mutual consent dispose with their joint property.

Like the other Territories, however, St. Helena would like to have more say in managing its own affairs (A 58 23 (Part I), annex, para.

Rather than catalyzing constructive policy coordination, it has inadvertently encouraged complacency.

However, in the Group's meetings with the sectoral tables, there was a certain dissatisfaction with the process, as the projects selected for funding were not always those that had been planned and presented by the sectoral tables.

In the South, black Americans grew increasingly dissatisfied with their lack of economic opportunity and status as second class citizens.

Silence is a sign of consent.

The present Convention shall be subject to ratification by signatory States and to formal confirmation by signatory regional integration organizations. It shall be open for accession by any State or regional integration organization which has not signed the Convention.

His most precious resource is his personal popularity, which a flavor of consent to his authoritarian regime.

That disjunction explains a lot about the cynicism and disaffection with politics that characterizes much of the world nowadays.

Complacency in a Leaderless World

Such times are dangerous for democracy, because they endanger popular consent to democratic governments.

We cannot place great confidence in such studies, because this kind of overall life satisfaction judgment may not reflect how much people really enjoy the way they spend their time.

Thus, addressing Europe s serious economic issues requires wading into the deep waters of the political imagination. So far, however, policies aimed at shoring up the euro have been narrowly technical, in an effort to isolate Europe s financial travails from popular discontent over its direction.

Indeed, any Japanese who thinks that complacency is an option should look to Argentina.

Military life is different from civilian life.

Dissatisfaction with the dollar s role as the dominant global reserve currency is not new. In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d Estaing famously condemned the exorbitant privilege that the dollar s status bestowed upon the United States.

The bottom line is that the costs of reform are affordable. The costs of complacency are not.

Ms. Belmihoub Zerdani wondered why Ireland's social development had not kept pace with its economic development and why, in particular, women still did not play an equal part in all areas of public life.

Upstream dams, barrages, canals, and irrigation systems can help fashion water into a political weapon that can be wielded overtly in a war, or subtly in peacetime to signal dissatisfaction with a co riparian state.

This approach became a notable explanation of job satisfaction in light of evidence that job satisfaction tends to be stable over time and across careers and jobs.

The dominant note was one of complacency or even optimism.

But if instead you bet that there is no God, then you can lose it all, in this life and the life to come.

It notes with concern the absence of pro active measures to increase women's participation in political and public life.

Only such just growth can eventually be converted into high GNC Gross National Contentment, a truer index of economic well being.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.

We cannot be complacent about the challenges it confronts.