| That's why it felt so dismaying when a major-label boy band was able to mobilise a highly organised fanbase to top the inaugural chart. |
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| The downtick in the unemployment rate, to 9.1 percent from 9.2 percent, is also dismaying on closer inspection. |
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| To labor, Obama's choice of Nike headquarters for a major address on trade was dismaying. |
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| But to many of Jefferson's admirers the idea of this liaison is deeply dismaying. |
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| These dismaying attacks constitute a challenge to the whole of the human community, a challenge we are now going to have to learn to take up. |
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| What is dismaying is that the salary bill and the administrative costs go on rising, which means the size of the government continues to be unwieldy. |
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| The nature of some of the discussion and conjecture in the media, however, is dismaying. |
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| It is dismaying how the lack of political will on the part of some is eroding the entire NPT regime. |
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| When one considers a genuine need for clear progressive legislation in this area, the carelessness of the Liberal government is dismaying. |
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| The Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act is a surprising and dismaying alternative to what was recommended by the Pay Equity Task Force. |
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| The Nimrods committed another dismaying turnover en route to another humiliating loss. |
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| It is quite simply dismaying to see that the Commission has not been able to obtain from the budget authorities the few hundred jobs needed to cope with the new languages. |
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| Mr Zardari, widower of Benazir Bhutto, a former prime minister, has become a clownish regent for her dynasty, dismaying a party that sees itself as Pakistan's most liberal and democratic. |
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| At a time when extremist ideologies are on the rise and bigotry shows a dismaying persistence, the need for dialogue among religions, cultures and civilizations has never been greater. |
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| While the marine park boundaries would remain, new management plans would be created, dismaying environmental campaigners who pointed out that most non-fishing areas were more than 50km from population centres. |
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| What I find dismaying is that it took the government this long to finally approve the management plan for the marine park and to bring forward this bill. |
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| Was there a surer way of dismaying those who expected so much of us? |
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| This is an utterly dismaying example of double standards. |
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| The success of his appeals was unbelievably dismaying to superiors who were more interested respect and riches than reaching out to the suffering. |
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| Almost more dismaying is the response of some outside Afghanistan, who react by calling for a disengagement or the full withdrawal of international forces. |
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| It is deeply dismaying to see the work and consensus built up through that process be pushed aside in favour of the regressive provisions of the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act. |
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| The dismaying stress on family life calls more than ever for the teacher to recognize his or her parenting role while at the same time encouraging parents in their teaching roles. |
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