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And perhaps most disheartening, UPN continues to air episodes of Love Boat: The Next Wave .
Bedraggled, starving and exhausted after a final four days crushed in box cars, we were, I learned later, the most disheartening lot of ragmen they had seen in their more than three years of imprisonment.
His confirmation in office was "thoroughly disheartening," it said.
In many Western countries and Brazil (the sources of the majority of the available data on the subject), the impressive drop in mortality due to HIV following increased access to ART is coupled with a disheartening rise in the number of new cases of HIV, as emphasis and funding are shifted from prevention to treatment [2].
The thing I find most disheartening about Rosen's book is probably best summed up by an oft-used Shakespeare line: "He jests at scars that never felt a wound."