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The progress of the Greek team was not popular outside their own country; Everton were deeply displeased with the refereeing of the Frenchman who took charge of their return leg against Panathinaikos in Athens.
Sergey Lavrov / Mr Putin is displeased - This is of utmost importance.
Nicola Sturgeon is said to be displeased , and you can see her point, but perhaps she and Kaufman need to get over it.
He has known terrible tragedy in his life: his brother shot himself, his mother died recently, the mother of his son, Lamar, is critically ill, he is estranged from his current wife and from his father Bill, who was displeased by his apparent lack of courage when he fought Tony Tucker.
For Mr Hun Sen that result was a blow: his party had kept a firm grip on power since Vietnam invaded Cambodia and ousted the Khmers Rouges in 1979.The rapprochement has displeased many in the CNRP.
When either or both of those things changes, it seems reasonably likely that the Tory leadership will shift, and the civil-libertarians will feel cheated.Incidentally, I was disappointed to find that one or two of the convention's organisers were displeased by my description of them in the paper this week as "eccentrics".
The PMDB's barons were already displeased with what they regarded as a meagre clutch of ministries and other important jobs in Ms Rousseff's government, but had hitherto toed the line.
As a schoolboy, he was not displeased to be called "JFK".
Another trip that Mr Franco made to the US in July which was supposed to be a private visit to meet PLRA supporters, but included meetings with Thomas Shannon, the sub-secretary of the State for the Americas, and senior officials in the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB is also believed to have displeased Mr Lugo.This early tensions highlight the risks to Mr Lugo's governing alliance.
The fund is displeased by many of the government's economic policies, including its latest actions over land, and it does not want to be seen to be supporting Zimbabwe's involvement in the Congo war.
In the sheaves of documents, there was something for everybody to object to: lines on territories under occupation that annoyed the Israelis, on population control that displeased the Vatican, on energy that irritated Saudi Arabia.The planet will not be "saved", any more than it was after the last grand UN conference on the environment, in Stockholm 20 years ago.
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The primary function of "displeased" is to express a state of dissatisfaction or disapproval . As confirmed by Ludwig AI, it's used to indicate a feeling of unhappiness with someone or something. Examples in Ludwig show it modifying individuals or entities who experience this sentiment.
Expression frequency: Very common
