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But it is hard to think of a better way to fashion a decent stretch of Conservative government from the unpromising result of this election.

This week's declaration from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was an unpromising start.

I continued to love all the kittens, but I chose the most unpromising of the kittens as my subject.

To his way of thinking, confronted by the available options, he had always just pursued the least unpromising.

But when I saw them, just like a as the spirit that did not float down the heads of white catkins also insensitive to really unpromising.

There was, at times, a want of spirits about him which, if it did not denote indifference, spoke of something almost as unpromising.

Unpromising people do not work; people do not study and did not progress.

From the most unpromising of starts, he ended up with a far more impressive record, at least in electoral terms, than George H W Bush.

Behind this repetitious and unpromising pattern lay a history of disappointment at the hands of the key men in her life.

an unpromising beginning to the relationship.

Given that these are so meagre, this might seem to be an unpromising line of inquiry.

Sydney Carton, idlest and most unpromising of men, was Stryver's great ally .

These difficulties have answers and the EU has had more than enough practice in fashioning compromises out of unpromising ingredients.

Among these were a few dark brown beans that looked like almonds and seemed most unpromising.

He said that two factors made the success of economic liberty unpromising.

From Microsoft to Google, some of the world's most promising businesses have been started in unpromising settings.

Given their unpromising beginnings, they have been lucky, the two of them: he to have found her, she to have found him.

An ugly and unpromising child grows into a beautiful and worthy person.

Although it is a boring, although the point is unpromising.

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or NREGA, seemed unpromising from its inception.

How often do you find that an unpromising book turns out to be a pretty good read?

Lu Xun in childhood is a very serious child, he believes that kites are unpromising child's toy.

In my point of view, the dearth of wild species today forecasts an unpromising future for humans tomorrow.

In my point of view, the dearth of wildlife today forecasts an unpromising future for humans tomorrow.

If China today is imperial Germany, then the prospects for global stability are unpromising.

You quit that respectable, well-paid job for this unpromising one? What has come over you?

Unpromising good, that is, hurt the feelings of a woman.

Yet in this unpromising setting, some positive signs are visible.

Researchers in China and India have joined forces to explore the best ways of turning unpromising drylands into productive farming land.

Graydon Smith's career in contract law is off to an unpromising start.

Even discounting the need to get on with China on other issues, however, this is an unpromising approach.

If we open a quarrel these, it was hopeless, so unpromising.

but 175 pounds - was unpromising your boyfriend's weight.

One that is considered ugly or unpromising at first but has the potential of becoming beautiful or admirable in maturity.

Conjure a delicious meal out of a few unpromising ingredients

I do not want you to see a unpromising I,

"the New York editor who could tease great books from the unpromising woolly jumble of an author's first draft" (Ian Jack)

His stance on these issues makes him appear an unpromising partner in negotiation;

show no promise of success; be unpromising