Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.

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They worry about the government's rightward drift on social and economic policy: Blairisation, they glumly call it.

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All the time Messi sat glumly on the bench as the task became hopeless even for his genius.

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Tory Eurosceptics glumly predicted that Lib Dem affection for Europe would hobble attempts to stand up to Brussels.

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An uncle of Muhammad, the boy recently killed, sits glumly outside the family's sweet shop, his eyes red with grief.

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Whereas West Europeans riot when squeezed, their eastern counterparts just glumly emigrate.

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Western officials seem glumly reconciled to another term for Mr Karzai.

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Stand in a line of people in just about any major metropolitan area in the world and you'll see the same thing: slouched shoulders and down-turned faces staring glumly at smartphone screens.

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His prime minister, Viktor Chernomyrdin, looked on glumly.

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So when Gap reported glumly a few weeks ago that after a strong November, December same-store sales had softened (Gap North America comps down 8% year-over-year, others not so bad) the stock got even more depressed.

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The Americans watched glumly.

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