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Dismayed
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As for Zygielbojm, he was dismayed at the public indifference to his detailed and chilling revelation of mass murder.
Imusa, dismayed by his volte-face, continued to argue the deal would eventually explode in United's face.
Related: The Katie Hopkins effect: why MPs fear a celebrity endorsement The environmentalist Jonathon Porritt told The Guardian it was his initiative to garner support for Lucas because he had been dismayed by the "aggressive" Labour campaign in her seat of Brighton Pavilion, a key marginal.
Tory MPs and officials dismayed by their colleague's "brave but quixotic" decision to fight a byelection over the 42 day pre-charge detention issue were relieved that he had achieved a respectable turnout from his Yorkshire constituents.
The government had been dismayed by an 8% rise in violent crime and blamed the rise on a combination of alcohol and a "yob culture", which prime minister Tony Blair described as bringing "misery in too many towns and cities on too many Friday and Saturday nights".
I was dismayed by the level of the attacks on Chris Rapley's lecture on climate-change, co-written by the playwright Duncan MacMillan.
Europeans have been stunned and dismayed by the shutdown and near-default of the United States.
She was also dismayed by the departure from the government of moderate figures such as Ken Clarke and Dominic Grieve, sacked as attorney general for (probably) resisting rightwing pressure to retreat from Britain's international legal – she's a lawyer – and human rights obligations.
But its supporters, witnessing the cross-party consensus teetering and presentational blunders accumulate, have been dismayed to see how little traction that view is getting among the wider public.
As I had been entranced by the language preserved in the prose‑poem of the "Peat Glossary", so I was dismayed by the language that had fallen (been pushed) from the dictionary.
Most of all, he is dismayed by the grandstanding that seems the inevitable accompaniment to high office – a facility, you might observe, that's apparent in such implacable opponents to his outlook as Theresa May and Chris Grayling.
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