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Without actually admitting it, the US was clearly unhappy that these two states tried to play a diplomatic role of their own in the dispute.
The rest of the world was often unhappy with George W. Bush, for both the content and style of his foreign policy.
The starting point for the EU’s unhappy bid to create a shared constitution had been fears that its decision-making mechanisms were being overloaded by the accession of so many new members, first in May 2004 and again at the beginning of this year.
Of course, relaxed and happy people can still become depressed, and stressed and unhappy people may not be depressed, but it is a reasonable hypothesis that happier people are less likely to become depressed.
The day before, I had met with two, well, not quite activists, but people who are unhappy with conditions in the country.
Likewise, those Arab governments unhappy with the state of affairs in Syria can do more to bring about change.
The Kremlin’s best hope now is that Georgia’s economy will crumble, its currency will collapse, and an unhappy populace, encouraged by some opposition leader (perhaps bankrolled by Russia), will force Saakashvili from power.
The BBC, which briefly ran its own Arabic language news station in the mid-1990's - before closing it down because its Saudi funders were unhappy with its reporting - recently announced that it will re-launch an Arabic language news satellite station.
As European countries take these measures, their economies are likely to weaken – with unhappy consequences for the global recovery.
For much too long, they saw it as an unhappy accident to be corrected at the first opportunity.
Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens saw the Catalonian secession bid in October as a wake-up call for the European Union to grant more autonomy to regional and local governments, lest the unhappy choice between more EU-level bureaucracy or more “competing nationalisms” consume the bloc from within.
That division will soon becomean unhappy and wary one.
Regardless of the EU’s unhappy diplomatic past in the Balkans, the most practical way forward is to seek political reform in Bosnia rather than hoping for the US to resume its leadership role.
Gary Cohn continues to chair the National Economic Council, though he is reported to be unhappy about some of the president’s statements on non-economic issues.
Negotiators from 196 countries patched together a compromise that keeps the world on course to a new global climate agreement in Paris next year; but almost everyone was left unhappy with some provision or another.
In fact, EU leaders are already unhappy with Switzerland’s access to the single market; the idea that they would give the UK such access, especially after being slapped in the face, is not convincing.
If they become unhappy, they can always console themselves with a pirated DVD.
Common law countries never block shares for shareholder meetings; have the highest (92%) incidence of laws protecting minority owners (such as allowing shareholder derivative suits or forcing controlling shareholders to buy out an unhappy minority), and generally require relatively few shares (9%) to call an extraordinary shareholder meeting (which makes it easier for minority shareholders to challenge incumbent insiders).
If those working at the organization are unhappy, recruiting the most talented and motivated people will be nearly impossible.
Russia’s unhappy status as a democratizing, but still potentially threatening, former superpower, played a role, as did its huge energy reserves, which is why China, incomparably more powerful economically but politically beyond the pale, was never invited to join.
When voters are unhappy with the economic status quo, but lack the power to change the relevant policies through democratic processes, they fall for conspiracy theories, turn on the political establishment, and demand a radical transformation of existing arrangements.
Obama won not only because of his extraordinary personal resilience, but also because a sufficient number of middle-class voters, while unhappy with the pace of economic progress, sensed that an Obama presidency would help them more than the policies championed by his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, which were perceived as tilted to the affluent.
But the US is also unhappy with the way the dollar standard is functioning.
Many Yushchenko loyalists are unhappy that, in exchange for the government agreeing to fairer election rules, Yushchenko agreed to transfer some presidential powers to the parliament.
In the end, it went to Maggie Barankitse, the “Mother of Burundi” – not least, perhaps, because the spotlight of recognition may help to prevent her unhappy country from sliding back into civil war.
In a New York Times op-ed piece of February 5, 1997, he suggested that the period between announcing the decision to expand and its official acceptance could be used "to alter the proposed expansion in ways that would mitigate the unhappy effects."
This would further undermine confidence in financial markets, which are already unhappy with Trump’s trade war, responding to every tariff announcement with a selloff.
The Egyptian leadership, also fighting internal challenges, is similarly unhappy with the JCPOA.
Frankly, I am unhappy with this explanation.
Many fellow economists were unhappy with my tweet.
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