it's rather disappointing

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So it's rather disappointing to watch as the company and its loyal crew of Washington allies resort to jingoism, protectionism and outright hypocrisy as they seek to overturn the Pentagon's decision to choose another team to build a badly needed fleet of refueling tankers for the Air Force.

Judith: It's rather disappointing / Just some tranquil water.

As there's no real neighbouring buildings it's rather disappointing for this location and I think it's rather uninspiring".

"He has given us almost no details about what that looks like and I think it's rather disappointing that so far in we still haven't heard any details about that," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We understand it given the budget environment, but it's rather disappointing," says Dave Moore, senior director of government relations for the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, D.C. "Once again we're not even keeping pace with inflation".

"It is rather disappointing".

And if what you care about is which candidate can one-up the others, it is rather disappointing.

I wasn't shocked by the male-centric focus - only a minority of the visitors were female - but given it is 2007, it was rather disappointing to see just how much women were ignored.

However, it is rather disappointing that further analysis locating the genetic loci corresponding to this group of bacteria did not result in a definitive gene, which could be due to the small sample size of twins.

It was rather disappointing.

Given these promising attributes, it was rather disappointing that analyses with the MLC2v-Cre/ZEG reporter system failed to support the presence of cardiomyogenic activity in cultured EDCs (as evidenced by the absence of cre-mediated recombination of the reporter locus).