In the time period after the mid-XXth century, the two countries display highly similar features: controlled migration through bilateral agreements, which was desirable for development objectives and unchallenging in demographic terms, unfulfilled expectations about return migration, dilemmas of politically motivated emigration, among others.
In the closest hint at what a majority of French see as the unfulfilled promises of his term, he said: "You can't do everything in five years".
Katherine Asbery's 2008 book, Altered Dreams... Living With Gender Disappointment, devotes 135 pages to struggling and eventually coming to terms with her unfulfilled desire for a girl.
And who knows what the next round of bets, vows and hasty promises will produce in terms of regrets and unfulfilled threats?
In the process, he has also had to make more than the normal sacrifices in terms of a lonely and unfulfilled personal life.
That gift was surreptitiously diverted to Washington's National Gallery of Art, and the terms of the bequest remain unfulfilled.
Such development promises, largely unfulfilled, were a feature of Mr. Nagin's first term in office.
After two terms in office, he still has far more unfulfilled promises than accomplishments.
"The objectives of supervised release," he said, "would be unfulfilled if excess prison time were to offset and reduce terms of supervised release".
Generation Jones, a term coined by social commentator Jonathan Pontell to convey both their anonymity and unfulfilled expectations, covers those of us who were born between 1954 and 1965.
