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There has been a power struggle over this succession too, but the outcome is depressingly easy to read.

The number of men who rape, who cheat, who act out in countless other sexually compulsive and destructive ways is depressingly high.

That may all sound like a disaster but, depressingly, HSBC is one of the best-performing banks in the western world right now.

Rather depressingly, late-night talkshow host David Letterman outshines the sun in his effect on what people are doing.

Depressingly, the answer is usually that they are all equally important.

The next day, Xiaoming's father went fishing happily in the morning and came back depressingly very later with the empty tuck net.

Much of the story is depressingly familiar: how Indian misrule and a rigged election provoked protests and then, from 1989, insurgency.

The list is a depressingly long one. They all seemed like sensible ideas at the time, although with hindsight they were obvious duds.

Depressingly few politicians or other public figures in Russia even recognised her dilemma.

Depressingly, these market-distorting shenanigans are part of a pattern.

To seasoned observers of the electronics industry, the promise of wireless recharging sounds depressingly familiar.

But there is depressingly little sign that this will happen soon.

Above all, it comes from what is a depressingly rare intellectual stance: Prof Lin firmly believes in the beneficial power of market forces.

Europe's political leaders react to these unwelcome expressions of popular will in three depressingly familiar stages.

But now they just despair at the mess and, depressingly, even they feel that life under Saddam was preferable to the present situation.

But a lot is going depressingly wrong in politics.

This helps explain the depressingly slow decline in unemployment rates and in the number of workers who have given up looking for jobs.

Besides, they were always so depressingly enthusiastic.

Instead of policies that are minimally intrusive, well-targeted and efficient, we are depressingly likely to get the exact opposite.

This looks depressingly right to me.

It is a depressingly familiar scenario, a cycle of provocation and reprisal that periodically escalates into full-blown war.

Given the force's recent conduct, that kind of reaction could become depressingly familiar.

Britain has a depressingly large number of NEETs, young people who are not in education, employment or training.

These trend-lines in Darfur have become depressingly familiar over the past few years.

The magazine ceased printing in 2003, and its web presence is depressingly bland.

Jobs are depressingly scarce for recent high school and college graduates.

That makes the sight of small, skinny children depressingly routine.

Depressingly, he finds few grounds for optimism.

Depressingly, planning approval has apparently been given to 100 more towers.

But the two fields graced by Curie remain depressingly male.

Some of these are depressingly familiar.

The new man seems clever. - He does. Depressingly so.

In a routine that is becoming depressingly familiar, Mr Obama's camp argues that the time for these things is not yet ripe.

Worse, if that feeds into expectations the world will be depressingly similar to the 1970s.

"But then why were you weeping so depressingly, Elyre? "

All of this is depressingly familiar to anyone who has studied economic policy in the 1930s.

The country may be entering a period depressingly familiar to Americans