Life is full of disappointments.

But this is no time to yield to delusions.

This is why the exercise of conventional power has become frustrating.

For Europe and the United States, 2010 was a year of disappointment.

In spite of all this splendor, the beginning was extremely frustrating.

For others, the pathos of what seems to be an annual exercise in disappointment has become darkly comical It's a beautiful, perfect arc that begins with, Is this the year Haruki Murakami receives the Nobel Prize? and invariably ends with him getting passed over.

Such progress is slow and full of frustrations, for it reflects the incremental evolution of the system.

Regardless of their disappointments with the Western countries foreign policy, young Muslims have been exposed to their undeniable democratic spirit.

For progressives, these abysmal facts are part of the standard litany of frustration and justified outrage.

Fola had minimal support from colleagues to overcome the obstacles and frustrations he faced daily.

Since its victory in the Cold War, America s hegemony in the Middle East has been a story of frustration and unrewarded investment of blood, sweat, and treasure.

They were hard to put up and hard to take down, and when he put them up only to be disappointed by some storm or other, he refused to take them down until the end of the season.

Decades of frustration are now yielding to success the application of sophisticated statistical techniques to the accelerating accumulation of unprecedented quantities of so called Big Data that the Internet simultaneously generates and captures.

This has led to a schism between the hopes young Muslims have for successful lives in the West and their aspirations for their Muslim brothers and sisters, who have suffered so many terrible disappointments.

Dialogue with Iran will inevitably be frustrating and difficult, but it offers the only way to lay out possible grounds for constructive engagement and to devise a strategy for heading off a potentially disastrous confrontation.

After they were told in the 1960 s that the position of women in the movement is prone, they generated second wave feminism a movement born of women s new skills and old frustrations.

Still, working with the IBM was frustrating ... if you had misplaced as much as one letter in one instruction, the program would crash, and you would have to start the whole process over again .

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovich, wins on February 7.

Because the Orange Revolution in 2004 turned out to be a seeming unending series of disappointments, most Western leaders are acting as if it makes no difference whether Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or her rival, Viktor Yanukovych, wins on February 7.

One of the regrets and disappointments I experienced during my ten years serving as Secretary General is that I have seen some leaders, who are not committed to democratic principles and try to cling to power against the will of people.

Kitty's absorption in these trifles, quite contrary to Levin's early ideal of lofty happiness, was one of his disappointments yet that sweet absorption, the meaning of which he could not understand but which he could not help liking, was also one of his new enchantments.