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The experience of Japan, which tried it in the early years of this decade, is disheartening to those who hope for great things.

After eight years of disheartening warfare, it is tempting to see NATO's mission as a repeat of past misadventures in the Hindu Kush.

As she read the disheartening words, Ms. Lu immediately began to panic. Where had she gone wrong?

Watching the evolution of economic discussion in Washington over the past couple of years has been a disheartening experience.

Things were so disheartening that he had come to the conclusion that there was not much chance of their succeeding in running the blockade.

Tiger conservationists relate a disheartening tale of years of painstaking successes wiped out by poachers and corrupt forest officials.

Explore options for troubled teens can be disheartening, to say the least.

Even more disheartening, Chiang failed to obtain Soviet support for his plan to attack Chinese warlords and create a unified state.

Adi Da Samraj: The circumstance of existence, in and of itself, is disheartening.

It's disheartening to see how many financial institutions lost sight of these basic truths.

Punishing or firing someone that you've established an informal relationship with can be disheartening.

About three years ago the malnutrition rate was about 12 percent there and to see that it's now 40 percent is very disheartening.

The reports paint a disheartening picture of the Afghan police and soldiers at the center of the American exit strategy.

"It was disheartening to find that the degree I worked so hard for and was so proud of was not seen as valuable by others, " says Sparkman.

When asked about the flow of information from one part of the business to another, results were equally disheartening.

Her rejection by Yale had been disheartening, and the trip to Akron was a nightmare.

It is disheartening to a speaker to feel like a conversation on the cell phone is more important than a face to face moment.

The results of my informal, back-of-the-envelope calculations were rather disheartening.

They made file-handling routines, string utilities, database access routines--the list of code duplication was disheartening!

Nothing is more disheartening than hearing about a great blog launch and only finding one post to read.

I don't like to use the word 'disheartening. '

Its unravelling was swift and disheartening, and brings Thailand back to the brink of further unrest.

Hamilton said that it is particularly disheartening considering the controversy that the team is immersed in.

Now, everything I've been telling you, I admit, is pretty disheartening. But there is actually a very positive side to this.

We propose the light to throw on this disheartening tragedy.

For investors looking for clues about the stock market, the decrease may be disheartening.

The red lines on my report card were demeaning, disheartening, and most discouraging.

One represents a disheartening long-term pattern, the other an encouraging recent trend.

this the subject of caring for elders were younger, but became a "junior, " It is very disheartening of a phenomenon.

It is disheartening to find out that all we have to work with is these five drugs, and the evidence on these is scant.

"It is certainly disheartening news about the economy, " said David Resler, chief economist at Nomura Securities International in New York.

I find these developments disheartening, even though I cheerfully admit to being a member ofthe Google-using majority.

Even more disheartening , a third of the country's new young voters (the voting age has just been lowered to 16) backed them.

U. S. general recently described the situation as " disheartening . "

Mr. Bernanke's answer was deeply disheartening. He declared that further expansion might lead to higher inflation.

an analytics company. Comparing them to gold prices over the past year is disheartening.

Not knowing what to do first can be overwhelming, if not disheartening .

To exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions.

The weeks from Vienna to the 22nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening.

I've also Googled myself, which was more disheartening.

All this is most disheartening.

It is disheartening that one of Washington's premier businesses is reducing its work force.

Q. That can be deeply disheartening at that age, to learn that you're bad at something.

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