But Argentines are not pessimistic about the economy because other Argentines are pessimistic. They are pessimistic because the economy s fundamentals are weak a fundamental difference.

Everyone feels pessimistic.

That is the most pessimistic number you can have.

Even the most pessimistic impact scenarios of the U.N.

It's too late to be pessimistic really too late.

But we have a very pessimistic approach about the cities.

The paragraph should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic.

Several previous speakers have made a pessimistic diagnosis of the situation.

We do not want to be pessimistic we want to be realistic.

And according to the surveys, we are marked the most pessimistic people in the world.

I should like to say as well that I have heard many very pessimistic remarks.

Despite the apparently pessimistic outlook, however, it was important to remain objective and positive, where possible.

Secondly, my delegation remains somewhat pessimistic with regard to the two Tribunals accomplishing their tasks by 2010.

That sounded rather pessimistic when speaking of something that everyone had worked hard to make a reality.

Likewise, the IMF now predicts that the European economy will be 7.8 smaller in 2015 than it thought just two years ago. Some forecasters are more pessimistic than others (the OBR has a particularly sunny disposition), but no one, it seems, has been pessimistic enough.

BERLIN I am on a two week European tour at a time that could make one either very pessimistic or constructively optimistic about Europe s prospects.

President Bouteflika (spoke in Arabic) It would not be excessively pessimistic to say that the world in which we live is in a bad state.

PARIS Are non Europeans much less pessimistic about Europe than Europeans themselves? Could distance be a prerequisite for a more balanced view of the continent s predicament?

As Dr. Stedman mentioned yesterday, during the cold war era, there was a pessimistic prediction that anywhere from between 15 and 50 countries would some day possess nuclear weapons.

Pessimistic Europeans are behind the curve. They are bracing for a 2007 US growth slowdown that already has taken place with little consequence for both the US and European economies.

While the overwhelming majority of citizens are convinced that further armed conflict in the region is unlikely, the public s mood with the exception of Kosovars and Albanians is pessimistic. The future promises peace without development.

In fact, the history of technology has repeatedly refuted this pessimistic view. We can t say what the next radical innovation will be, but centuries of human experience suggest that there will be (at least) one.

I'm going to try to give you a view of the world as I see it, the problems and the opportunities that we face, and then ask the question if we should be optimistic or pessimistic.

Pessimistic but still completely realistic estimates claim that as many as 90 95 of the spoken languages may be extinct or very seriously endangered during this century this is Krauss' estimate today (Krauss 1995, 1996, 1997).

UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Unit's Ad Hoc Expert Group on Endangered Languages (UNESCO 2003a UNESCO 2003b, c) uses this more pessimistic figure in their report, Language Vitality and Endangerment (http portal.unesco.org culture en file_download.php 1a41d53cf46e10710298d314450b97dfLanguage Vitality.doc).

For perhaps the most pessimistic view in modern scholarship, see Julius Stone, Legal Controls of International Conflict 447 (1959) (considering the topic rather like seeking the principle on which life may be said to continue after death ).

SHANGHAI Many people are profoundly pessimistic about the Chinese economy s growth prospects, owing to the emergence of massive debt, excessive investment, overcapacity, and so called ghost cities since the 2008 global financial crisis. But these problems are not new.

India has suffered, like most developing countries, from declining foreign investment, poor export performance, and a depreciating currency. But even pessimistic estimates project 5 growth in the coming fiscal year, and a good monsoon should ensure a bumper harvest.

COPENHAGEN Politicians and commentators are understandably pessimistic about the chances of an international deal on carbon cuts emerging from the United Nations summit in Mexico this December. Nothing has been resolved since the Copenhagen climate talks fell apart last year.

And yet, while bureaucratization of science has fueled concerns about its attractiveness to talented thinkers, we should not be overly pessimistic. To be sure, many people have lamented the loss of brilliant minds to the financial sector over the past few decades.

Asians need not be pessimistic the perfect storm of a hard landing in China, a double dip recession in the United States, and a collapse of the eurozone is unlikely. But they cannot rule out the downside risk of a synchronized global downturn.

Paradoxically, in the pessimistic scenario, Iran s new government, controlled by conservatives and hardliners, actually fits into the region better than the current one. After all, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and many other Arab states are also ruled by authoritarian hardliners with little interest in de escalating regional conflicts.

Though I am, by nature, an optimist, I have to admit that it is very difficult not to be pessimistic as 2014 comes to a close. Nonetheless, we must not submit to panic and despair, or allow ourselves to be drawn into a vortex of negative inertia.

Yet, since the Korean War peak of 7 , global costs have declined steadily, reaching 3.5 in 1980 and about 1.7 today. Even a pessimistic outlook suggests an increase only to about 1.8 by 2050 under a more optimistic scenario, military costs could decline further, to 1.6 of GDP.

Global warming will mainly harm developing countries, because they are poorer and therefore less able to handle climate changes. However, by 2100, even the most pessimistic forecasts from the UN expect the average person in the developing countries to be richer than now, and thus better able to cope.

It has been my experience in working in developing countries that while the headlines may all be the pessimistic headlines may say, well, we can't do this, that or the other thing because of corruption I think incapacity is a far bigger problem in poor countries than corruption, and feeds corruption.

These factors apply to emerging countries generally. Why, then, do Latin American economists seem to share a cautious even pessimistic mood about future growth and convergence in the region, whereas most Asian economists, while conceding that further structural reforms are needed, believe strongly that Asia will continue to converge rather rapidly?

While this seems to be a very pessimistic assessment of the regional situation, the radical Islamist side has many weaknesses. Launching losing wars may make Islamists feel good, but being defeated is a costly proposition, for their arrogance and belligerence antagonizes many who might otherwise be won over to their cause.

Mr. Meron (Israel), noting that the report submitted to the Committee was pessimistic and unbalanced, began by giving some examples of cooperation activities on the ground between Israel, the Palestinians and other parties in connection with natural resources, as they offered a ray of hope for all inhabitants of the region.

At first glance, it may seem that France chose NATO at the expense of the ten year old European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). But that interpretation takes too pessimistic a view of ESDP s achievements over the past decade, and is based on a flawed understanding of the relationships between NATO and the European Union.

Watching for progress on these key elements of structural change and reform seems to be the right stance. If markets are confused or pessimistic about China s longer term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.

But the theoretical investigations of Borda, Condorcet, and others often yielded rather pessimistic results. For example, the so called voting paradox presented by Condorcet showed that majority rule can reach an impasse when every alternative is defeated in voting by some other alternative, so that no alternative is capable of standing up to the challenge of every other alternative.

After a period of calm that has now lasted a decade, dire economic warnings are back. Forecasts for the world economy are turning pessimistic, and economists in export dependent Argentina are finding much to worry about. Itau, Latin America s largest bank, is predicting GDP growth in Argentina of only 3.2 next year, down sharply from 6 in 2011.

It is precisely at this critical moment that it is essential to re inject hope and, above all, common sense into the equation. So here are ten good reasons to believe in Europe ten rational arguments to convince pessimistic analysts, and worried investors alike, that it is highly premature to bury the euro and the EU altogether.

Many economists are becoming even more pessimistic, pointing to Japan as evidence that, after three decades, China s breakneck growth may be coming to an end. Japan s economy, they point out, achieved more than 20 years of sustained rapid growth but, in the 40 years since 1973, annual growth has exceeded 5 only a handful of times, and output has stagnated for the last two decades.