If you come up with ambitious goals, investors will be disappointed when you don't meet them.
After trying my new jokes at my next gig, I was disappointed when they fell flat.
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Instead, they would rather create distractions which ultimately become excuses when voters become disappointed.
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Opponents of the windfarm were disappointed when the councillors decided to drop planned enforcement action in December 2002.
But these days, early adopters and gadget fans are disappointed when new smartphones debut with single core processors.
Urban liberals were bitterly disappointed when African-American voters abandoned them on the California gay marriage initiative last year.
Which means that an awful lot of people are going to be disappointed when the truth comes out.
Clients are often disappointed when the results do not transfer to other cases.
When they were disappointed, many placed naive faith in Mr Medvedev after 2008.
Investors were also disappointed when Cisco, a maker of Internet equipment, reported a net loss for the third quarter.
But Ms Ramoutar was disappointed when she went to her local hospital before she started trying for a baby.
And yet I was recently disappointed when the last bookstore closed down in the downtown area in the last year.
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"I was really disappointed when the iPhone was introduced, " Wozniak reportedly said earlier this week during a speaking tour of Australia.
Passengers hoping to travel on the early Friday morning sailing from Fishguard were also disappointed when they were asked to rebook.
The pair would have been disappointed when they fell in quick succession just before tea having taken Australia past the 150 mark.
We are proud of our rich legacy and disappointed when we fail.
"I was really disappointed when one of the Newcastle players went down and I think simulated an injury from a challenge, " stated Pulis.
Ms. He said she was disappointed when she visited the duck for the second day and found it floating in the exact same location.
Motorola's Atrix 4G laptop dock was a seriously sweet concept, which is why we were so disappointed when it failed to pan out.
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"We were disappointed when the Family Violence Bill was killed, but are happy to see it back in a different form, " says lawyer Ellen Lee.
In fact, traders who bet on a plunge in March and June this year were sorely disappointed when the SPX rebounded sharply after setting short-term bottoms.
Bath winger Joe Maddock was the first to be disappointed when he knocked on in the process of trying to collect the ball while sliding over the Blues tryline.
"I think you're always a little disappointed when you start first and don't finish first, but overall it was a good weekend for us, " he told reporters.
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"My friends and I were very disappointed when we heard there would be no baseball, track or tennis, " said Luis Torres, 17 years old, who plays all three sports.
As a business owner, art collector and someone who has a passion for bedazzling, unique, art-centric interiors, I was utterly disappointed when I started buying art 11 years ago.
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"We always try to be at our best for patients and are disappointed when a patient or family member believes we have failed to achieve that objective, " he said.
The home crowd were left disappointed when eighth seed Janko Tipsarevic recorded a battling three-set win over former world No. 1 and two-time grand slam champion Lleyton Hewitt .
So the insurers who incited opposition to the cuts were acting like someone overpaid because of a clerical error and then disappointed when the next paycheck is for the correct amount.
Women need not fear a president who "uses" religion to please the masses and get their votes -- nor be disappointed when the veneer of secularism cracks to reveal an ambivalent chauvinist.
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