You sound like a disillusioned patriot.

Gentlemen... you will soon be disillusioned.

Yes, she has. I hate to see her disillusioned.

I was exhausted, and I was also disillusioned in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on.

In medicine, I think a lot of people are deeply disillusioned with the kind of quick fix mentality you find in conventional medicine.

And on a particularly dark night of December of 2004, I sat down with my family, and I said that I had become very disillusioned.

In Peru, youth are reluctant to participate in politics, because they are disillusioned, as is often the case in other countries, about political involvement and about politicians.

Russia managed to defeat the separatists and maintain control over Chechnya. But it was a Pyrrhic victory, given that it drove many disillusioned and angry Chechens toward religious fundamentalism.

Those taking the latter view sometimes urge developing countries and countries in transition to exercise caution lest they embrace the new ICTs too enthusiastically and thus risk becoming disillusioned when they do not resolve all their development problems.

But it is not at all clear that those governments that would normally support more integration can sell it to their disillusioned electorates. Tony Blair has promised a referendum on the new EU constitution, which he cannot possibly win.

Millions of young people, though disillusioned by decades of social paralysis, unemployment, and brutal dictatorships, had dared to expect better. Though Tunisians have made progress, the other affected populations, like many Muslim immigrants in Europe, have had their hopes shattered.

As observers like Joshua Kurlantzick have pointed out, a global shift away from representative government, driven by increasingly disillusioned middle classes, is underway. For elected leaders, the dilemma is that there are no simple solutions and little public patience for more complex ones.

In the 2008 election, Americans felt disillusioned by the Bush administration s war in Iraq, and by the financial crisis that erupted two months before the vote. Obama was an attractive young candidate who spoke well and projected a sense of hope for the future.

Yet, as the security expert Sajjan M. Gohel has observed, the displaced and disillusioned Taliban youth of today have found solace and purpose in an extremely radical interpretation of Islam. The Taliban may no longer be a unified force, but they clearly remain a dangerous one.

A decade of running and hiding from unrelenting surveillance and targeted drone attacks has caused the movement to splinter. Yet, as the security expert Sajjan M. Gohel has observed, the displaced and disillusioned Taliban youth of today have found solace and purpose in an extremely radical interpretation of Islam.

The electorate grew increasingly disillusioned with the unavoidable shortcomings of an over familiar government, and the party grew increasingly discontented with a leader who had outstayed his welcome. At first, Blair thought that he could claim the right to remain in power for a third full five year term.

In the Islamic Republic, those interested in opening up to the West are typically those with little authority. Ahmadinejad and his faction face a two edged problem Khamenei has boxed them in politically, while rampant economic corruption and failed efforts at reform have disillusioned many of the president s supporters.

In the interwar crisis of democracy, participation in elections surged as voters tried to protest against what the radical parties denounced as the system . In Germany in 2009, electoral participation fell by 5 , to 72.5 .  Those voters who were disillusioned by politics simply thought that there was no point in voting.

In the interwar crisis of democracy, participation in elections surged as voters tried to protest against what the radical parties denounced as the system . In Germany in 2009, electoral participation fell by 5 , to 72.5 . Those voters who were disillusioned by politics simply thought that there was no point in voting.

But the new leadership wants to distinguish between al Qaeda terrorists and religious conservatives and disillusioned Pashtun youth within Pakistan. After all, the victory of the secular Awami National Party (ANP) in Pakistan s North West Frontier Province is a strong indication that people there have rejected religious political forces and violence.

It is about creating an enabling government and an enabling environment in which the ordinary person the impoverished, the disillusioned, the educated and the rich feels included and feels that he or she can participate in the decision making process and feels that his or her dreams can be truly realized.

And yet, for now, the societies depicted so acidly in Leviathan and A Touch of Sin continue to look good in the eyes of many people who are disillusioned with Europe s economic stagnation and America s political dysfunction. Western businessmen, artists, architects, and others who need large amounts of money for expensive projects enjoy working with authoritarian regimes that get things done.

We live in an age in which many people are disillusioned with secular politics, and are turning to religion instead, not only throughout the Muslim world, but in the core of Western civilization, Christian Europe and Evangelist America. Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.

The time is fast approaching when the public becomes entirely disillusioned with both the LDP and the DPJ, which comprise a two party system in name only, in which legislators shift allegiance for reasons centered on attachment to or enmity against the LDP. Without a grand reorganization of the major political parties along ideological lines, Japan s domestic and foreign policies including relations with the US will remain a muddle.

37. The final months of the long Mobutu era were chaotic. The autocrat was barred by ill health from governing, the Kengo Government had fallen into disrepute, the people were bewildered and disillusioned and the political class was discredited.13 The Catholic bishops stated on 4 January that, in order to hold on to power, members of the transitional institutions were resorting to demagogic manoeuvres, such as lies, deception and corruption, and refusing to bow to popular sovereignty.