In the year since the resignation of Progressive Unionist party leader Dawn Purvis, it has become depressingly clear among acute observers of Belfast's loyalist communities that the loyalist paramilitary UVF has been purposefully ratcheting up tensions among its youthful foot soldiers to show some muscle.
Speaking in 2009, Yablokov, a former Russian prosecutor, said the legal case would have been unthinkable in the past, but had become depressingly possible in light of recent Kremlin moves to rehabilitate Stalin and to portray him as an efficient leader.
Day says that politicians and NGOs should have built on Ruggie's work, but instead "the impact of it is depressingly limited".
All of its players are informed by these values to some extent, and it sucks: for example, the depressingly familiar narrative of a woman being denigrated for her aesthetic choices and her agency in making those choices denied.
When the mainstream is this bloated and homogenous, and when every comic tells the same boring and often depressingly sexist jokes, we desperately need an alternative.
Many of my colleagues are already depressingly jaded.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 8.34pm AEST11:34 12 min: "Oh Dear," says Tim from Hampshire, "This has all got depressingly familiar very quickly".
Depressingly, he was merely reflecting a consensus among his sportswriting contemporaries.
Matches and moments define careers and when England left the field at half-time, trailing by seven points in a match depressingly short on inspiration and ambition, all kicks but no kickstart, a question to ponder was whether Owen Farrell would return for the second half.
Yet even with the scrapping of the Human Rights Act downgraded to the status of wish rather than promise, the sense of English isolation was depressingly pervasive.
Without further improvement, employment growth in Africa's formal sector will remain depressingly stunted.
