Bill McInturff, a Republican pollster and expert on public opinion and health, said, "A lot of 2004 will be a fight about who is perceived to pay versus who is perceived to get the benefit".
Over all, budgetary constraints were considered as the antecedent of several processes resulting in impaired working conditions, and the situation was perceived to get worse every year.
That was when the Malay majority institutionalised affirmative action for themselves, to the disadvantage of ethnic Chinese (a majority in Penang), who were perceived to have got unduly rich.
Every time some unsympathetic bureaucrat or drunk driver was perceived to have got off easily in the courts, people would joke that, "Hey, at least there was no dancing in a church involved!" In that sense, the drama surrounding Pussy Riot served to further undermine a legal system plagued by allegations of inhumanity and abuse.
Nowadays, many observers from abroad have become more skeptical; and the reason is not that unforeseen technical difficulties have emerged in the course of the project so far; the reason is that the costs are perceived to have gotten out of hand.
Things are perceived to be getting worse, despite their best efforts.
"We don't have rampant corruption in the political system in Australia … but we have a lot of this grey area where politicians are perceived to be getting a lot of perks.
If a symptom was perceived to be getting worse, this was sometimes a trigger to seeking medical help.
This suggests that there seems to be inconsistencies between the information children are perceived to be getting from carers and the actual HIV information that children are receiving and absorbing from the support groups.
"It's important for her personally, for how she's perceived, to ensure that she gets to show her depth".
