All in all, Mr Siedentop thinks that, in important respects, "the French have been taking over Europe"—which is unfortunate, because "the extent to which the French state creates and sustains administrative power, at the expense of liberal constitutional arrangements designed to disperse power, can scarcely be exaggerated".
Most likely, free traders will have to content themselves with regional agreements for the time being; unfortunate given the extent to which openness has fueled economic gains in the developed and developing world.UPDATE: Douglas Irwin and Petros C. Mavroidis comment at VoxEU.
While this is unfortunate, to some extent it may also be an unavoidable correlate of a commitment to transparency people should be able to get in, and everyone knows that not all of those registered for anything larger than a dinner party can be expected to turn up at the beginning and stay until the end.
Flannery O'Connor is best remembered for her potent fictions, and to a lesser extent for her unfortunate life (she eked out the last decade and a half of her life in relative solitude with her mother, refashioning her childhood home into a makeshift bird sanctuary before dying of lupus at the unripe age of 39).
"It's unfortunate that this argument reached the extent that it did.
Large has commented that despite the colour and vigour of the music, there is little by way of characterisation, except in the cases of Kecal and, to a lesser extent, the loving pair and the unfortunate Vašek.
It is unfortunate that in the Hall trial, presence or extent of MRBD was not recorded by the GDPs as, in retrospect, this might have helped to clarify the relationship between MRBD and subsequent clinical indications of pulpal pathology.
In contradiction to previous research, the findings in this study suggests an alternative achievement-goal pattern, and has to some extent succeeded in avoiding the proliferation of unfortunate motivational patterns found in earlier studies.
"I personally think that would have had a number of unfortunate results...the first would have been the duration and extent of the inquiry.
However, shadow banking was an unfortunate term, Cunliffe said, as it was so pejorative, and to some extent policy makers wanted to "encourage another financial engine".
