• He has since said his use of the word "pathetique" has been misunderstood and can mean sad or unfortunate in French.

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  • So whether the untimely descent is an honest mistake or unfortunate circumstance, the question is not if we will stumble, but how we behave after the fall.

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  • In the church of climate change, most or all unfortunate events that occur are attributable to human causation.

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  • Whether it's sports or investing, unfortunate decision-makers are frequently replaced by those who will handle the football or money more carefully.

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  • And I think there was some unfortunate reporting on this yesterday, or at least some unfortunate headlines.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • He was known as a great wit, though sometimes at the expense of unfortunate strippers or lounge pianists.

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  • And I think it's always important to remember, of course, that when we talk about that unfortunate outcome or result of the sequester, that we recognize that the impacts of the sequester go beyond whether or not people are going to be able to have tours of the White House.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Those who take this approach do so because they have either not been in the shoes of these unfortunate people or, if they have, were perfectly content to allow their health insurance company to lay out any amount of money it took to give their child the best of everything.

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  • What happened is that the initial inclusiveness that captured my imagination has mutated into an unfortunate all-or-none mindset.

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  • We will never know in the case of Dolly whether her condition is due to cloning or whether it is an unfortunate accident because sheep do develop arthritis.

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  • And if any such unfortunate existed, he or she could cast a provisional ballot and settle the problem later.

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  • His claim could result from an unfortunate reliance on anecdotal information or (as is more likely) a political strategy to gain support for tax increases from an unwitting public and media.

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  • So might another unfortunate remark by a central banker or a politician.

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  • It's unfortunate the United States is not willing or able to do so.

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  • This speed-climbing technique is known as running a PDL (or Pakistani Death Loop, purportedly named after an unfortunate South Asian climber who took a huge fall off the Nose attempting to break the record).

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  • But I think that (it) is unfortunate that anyone should now use violence or the threat of violence to pursue those demands, because they are ones that could be addressed in the constitution making process.

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  • If you get both, read and compare them, but know that it's the official quarterly statement that governs in the unfortunate event of a dispute with your broker or brokerage firm.

    WSJ: Why You Should Read What Your Broker Sends You

  • The unfortunate truth is that many families have absent parents or individuals incapable of providing sound guidance.

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  • It might be thought unfortunate that these two excellent biographies have appeared more or less simultaneously, but in fact they have surprisingly little in common.

    ECONOMIST: Historical biography

  • Pfizer concedes the backdating is "unfortunate" but now argues there's no Nigerian law or regulation requiring ethical committee approval before conducting a clinical trial.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And in some ways you might say some of the impacts are even more unfortunate -- families who lose slots in Head Start, or families who experience layoffs or furloughs around the country.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • "It is unfortunate that the Financial Times did not accurately represent the content or the context of our conversation about the good response to date on Windows 8 and the positive opportunities ahead on both Windows 8 and Windows Blue, " it said.

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  • For better or for worse, never-ending litigation and sticky sales injunctions seem to becoming an unfortunate mainstay of the modern product cycle.

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  • He also says his company draws the line at publishing lies about individuals or businesses--the cooking site created for Sue Scheff, he says, was an unfortunate exception, one that he removed after talking to this reporter.

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  • In brief, he thinks that opportunities should be thrust upon the unfortunate (such as misguided young offenders), but that adults who shirk their responsibilities, or persistently screw up, deserve everything he gives them.

    ECONOMIST: Criminal justice

  • It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies.

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  • Passing the order, Chief Justice Mohit Shah and judge Roshan Dalvi observed that it was "unfortunate that people in the film industry use others' concepts and then don't want to pay or give them credit".

    BBC: Shah Rukh Khan film Ra.One faces copyright challenge

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