| A dispiriting run without a league win in September and October was broken by a win at Liverpool in November. |
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| And you know how, when the battery's flat, your car makes a dispiriting grinding noise as you try starting it? |
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| How are we to break free from the dispiriting sequence of dictators and their henchmen? |
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| This must be one of the most dispiriting exhortations ever issued by a political leader. |
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| Under a Republican administration, such cavalier dismissal of urban prosperity, even by a career HUD official, is dispiriting. |
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| She assembles familiar ingredients in a way that satisfies the everywoman while dispiriting the adventurous. |
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| For Campbell, the past few months have seen a rebirth, after a dispiriting struggle in America with a shoulder injury. |
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| Keeping vibrations of hope on the pulse through dispiriting times was part of the task she set herself. |
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| Among the pleasures of this rather dispiriting collection are Chandler's verdicts on his fellow writers. |
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| This made a dispiriting start to the evening, which is something one doesn't often say about Balanchine. |
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| But it was too late to stop what should have been a morale-boosting victory from turning into another dispiriting, muddled mess. |
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| This is essential if dispiriting reading for the tender-hearted and tough-minded alike. |
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| The really dispiriting part of this whole show is that the best work, Third Eye, was unsold when we visited. |
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| Consider the dispiriting view that everybody always acts out of their own self-interest. |
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| But these are checked by dispiriting reflections on my melancholy temper and imbecility of mind. |
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| The dispiriting fact is that no negotiated two-state agreement is likely in the near future. |
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| The delays are poisoning the political atmosphere and daily making the prospects more and more dispiriting. |
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| Their departure brought a dispiriting end to their heady arrival in Baghdad two weeks ago. |
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| Under these dispiriting circumstances, the few voices calling for toleration were accorded increased attention. |
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| What is perhaps most dispiriting about this book is the tone of these criticisms. |
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| The exchange of ideas and information becomes a battle of wills, a futile and dispiriting activity. |
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| It makes for disturbing and dispiriting but essential and educational reading. |
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| There is no more dispiriting a sight for me than unfulfilled talent and goodness knows Scottish football is littered with players who underachieved. |
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| Perhaps even the indefatigable John Kerry might be discouraged from more futile and dispiriting peace talks. |
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| The Leeds defenders who played were subjected to a dispiriting ordeal. |
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| Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion. |
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| The Marriage Movement recently got hit with some dispiriting news. |
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| No doubt taking up intelligent design is a dispiriting business. |
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| For a year and a half, you did that dispiriting, desperate drudgery. |
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| His topic was as dispiriting as the ill-lit environ chosen for a no-news press briefing. |
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| Richard Crook Brighton The Question Time debate was thoroughly dispiriting. |
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| The most surprising element of Rangers' goal was that it did not have a noticeably dispiriting effect on its victims. |
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| Mr. Speaker, what has been most dispiriting in the House, and I think to all Canadians, is this. |
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| Their financial distress is clear, but not having a real job is dispiriting as well. |
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| The data presented to them will show the record as a mixture of conspicuous achievement and dispiriting failure. |
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| That is dispiriting and disappointing to Canadians because they know we are beginning to lose the race. |
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| Even more dispiriting, children continue to be over-represented in food bank lines. |
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| What a spectacular unraveling of a revolution, what a dispiriting death of a dream. |
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| But the slog to November 6th has been dispiriting and enervating enough to put many of us in touch with our inner 4-year-old. |
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| For it is the ease with which the administration is blown off course by the latest whiff of sleaze, misjudgment or scandal that is most dispiriting. |
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| It's a dispiriting thought, but it's what happened to Sartre. |
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| What do you find most dispiriting about the current talk news climate? |
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| Feedback demonstrates that many EU Citizens often find attempts to exercise their Internal Market rights a frustrating and dispiriting experience. |
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| One of the most dispiriting problems in many parts of the region is the brain drain of young educated people and the persistence of an educational culture still based on inter-ethnic divisions rather than reconciliation. |
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| There are exceptions – she has worked constructively with the Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston on parliamentary reform – but on the whole her experience of parliament has been dispiriting. |
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| The current numbers are dispiriting indeed for Cameron's party. |
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| However, in spite of rapid, sweeping, and systematically implemented austerity measures as well as a restrictive investment policy, our report for the year paints a dispiriting picture. |
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| Perhaps the most dispiriting part for Manchester City came from that unmistakable feeling that, if anything, the gulf has widened. |
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| The situation in Iraq is a dispiriting one, to say the least. |
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| What a dispiriting way of looking at things! |
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| An action that does not achieve the specific results that were desired can be very dispiriting, so you need to make sure that each step has been thought through beforehand. |
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| It is a dispiriting narrative, mostly riveting, occasionally too laden with bureaucratese, always trenchant. |
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| The snootiness and sameness of Switzerland is dispiriting, they say. |
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