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If the result is substantially positive, we regard the person’s life as happy; if negative, as unhappy.
If they say they are satisfied, or very satisfied, they are happy, rather than unhappy.
Learning to LeadCAMBRIDGE – Public-opinion polls show that citizens in many democracies are unhappy with their leaders.
That unhappy episode has cost British banks $37 billion so far, with more to come – most likely another $5 billion or so.
So what if they are unhappy that rates are on the rise.
Many are happy about growing home ownership, but are unhappy about the scarcity of public spaces – safe streets, parks, arts facilities, and community centers – where they can come into contact with their fellow citizens.
Uncertainty and fear are two reasons why many middle-class Chileans report being unhappy about their society.
To paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, the European family is unhappy in its own way.
Unhappy with America’s “pivot” to Asia, Xi remained calm, but emphasized that “one cannot rely too much on military power regarding Asia-Pacific diplomacy.”
Across the Islamic world – from North Africa to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – we see fragile relationships, unhappy transitions, unresolved conflicts, and outright attacks on the United States, despite Obama’s case for a new beginning, movingly articulated in his June 2009 speech in Cairo.
Mafia bosses often meet an unhappy fate, and I do not think that Putin will fare much better in the end.
NEW YORK – Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and the Soviet empire was collapsing, only die-hard believers in a communist utopia felt unhappy.
Indeed, in recent years an unfortunate trend has emerged in African politics: losing candidates, unhappy with their election results, unleash violence until the only option for mediators is to grant them a continued role in government.
It reflects above all the desire to leave that unhappy region to itself and feel morally good nevertheless.
Many Romanian Army officers are unhappy with the notion of soldiers being tried for crimes committed while defending the dying communist regime.
As with many unhappy marriages, divorce is not an option.
As Cicero wrote: “O wretched and unhappy was that day.”
But, to paraphrase Leo Tolstoy, it is important to remember that every unhappy economy is unhappy in its own way, and that a fix for one country’s problems might not work for another’s.
For years, it had been suggested that Gandhi – a son, grandson, and great-grandson of Indian prime ministers – was a “dynast” who was not up to the job of leading the country, and that even voters unhappy with the BJP would not necessarily vote for Congress.
“The unhappy truth,” he wrote, “is that France, England, and America have got themselves…so inextricably confused that no…satisfactory answer is now possible.”
This new reality is here to stay, and, regardless of who wins the US election this year, anyone who is unhappy with high inequality will have a voice, the ability to finance it, and the power to affect policymaking.
This seems to be a more efficient – and politically more stable – form of democracy than the unhappy cohabitation that produces such ugly confrontations of the type seen across the region.
Not all my fellow citizens are unhappy.
The unhappy marriage analogy for Europe’s current malaise, while depressing, is helpful.
It is no secret that Russia's diplomats and military leaders were unhappy with Putin's decisive tilt toward the West after the war on terror began.
Many religions instruct us that attachment to material possessions makes us unhappy.
Britain’s exporters are also unhappy because half of their sales are to fellow EU members.
European leaders, even when they are unhappy over US positions, therefore need to combine forceful support for the transatlantic community of interests with discrete, if firm lobbying in Washington not to strain it to the breaking point.
What other way forward is there for that unhappy former country?
And, while his decision to return to the presidency has vexed the most dynamic elements of Russia’s urban population, the rest of the country’s citizens remain unhappy but quiescent.
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