Bleak
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369 examples of Bleak in a sentence
The most recent report by the Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, released in November 2012, acknowledged Pakistan’s recent progress – in stark contrast to the
bleak
outlook of its previous report.
Now, in the aftermath of the anti-secession law, the future of the charter-flights scheme looks
bleak.
For the sake of argument, even if Musharraf faces impeachment and by some stroke of luck is saved from being thrown out of office, his future will be
bleak.
The just-published book based on our efforts, Healing Our Divided Society: Investing in America Fifty Years After the Kerner Report, edited by Fred Harris and Alan Curtis, makes for
bleak
reading.
Even if refugee children eventually manage to get somewhere safe, their prospects are bleak, because most will never have a chance to go to school – a reality that will severely undermine their ability to find gainful employment.
Yet few in Britain wanted to give them credence, and many thought that communism was the greater threat, especially in the
bleak
years of the Great Depression.
Now, talk has turned from the impending implosion of the Republican Party to the repudiation, disarray, and
bleak
future prospects of the Democrats.
MEXICO CITY – Brazil’s upcoming presidential election – its ninth since the restoration of democracy in 1985 – will take place against a
bleak
background, and not just because the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro was recently destroyed in a fire, or even because the economic recovery is faltering.
Without collective action, we face a
bleak
future of disappearing biodiversity and a steadily declining quality of life.
So the prospects for most developing countries – including those that had done everything “right” – are
bleak.
But the rest of the picture is
bleak.
To me, attempting to discern the economic prospects for 2011 is not a particularly interesting question: the answer is bleak, with little upside potential and a lot of downside risk.
The bright spot in this
bleak
picture is that it would not take much in terms of annual deficit reductions to prevent the rise in the debt ratio, or even to bring it back to where it was a decade ago.
Do the revolutions across the Arab world presage the glory days of summer, or a passage through a
bleak
winter?
Other social indicators offer a
bleak
picture.
Of course, the outlook need not be so
bleak.
And what
bleak
disappointment we feel, what sudden loss of interest in life, when, by chance, there is nothing new to report.
Fortunately, we have not yet reached William Butler Yeats’s
bleak
scenario, in which “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
In many countries – particularly in Southern Europe –
bleak
economic circumstances are generating social tension, political apathy, civil unrest, and delinquency.
Apart from another reasonably productive Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul in March 2012, the news on the disarmament front over the last year has certainly been
bleak.
Add to that weak or non-existent governance in much of Africa (and the concomitant security threats and
bleak
economic prospects), and it is difficult to imagine how the tide of migrants will be slowed.
There may be no one-size-fits-all model for economic development, but, without global standards and complementary regulations, the long-term outlook for the world economy will remain
bleak.
Trump paints a
bleak
picture of life in the US today, blaming globalization (specifically, immigration) and the “establishment” leaders who have advanced it for the struggles of ordinary American workers.
Optimizing the EurozoneTOKYO – The eurozone is facing a
bleak
economic outlook, with growth remaining stagnant and the threat of deflation looming large.
So far,
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predictions that the campaign would split Nigerians along Islamic/Christian lines, triggering sectarian violence before the voting, have not come to pass.
Unless the authorities embrace a growth strategy – and do so quickly – the eurozone’s prospects will become increasingly
bleak.
According to some
bleak
estimates, 47% of jobs are at risk in the United States; 57% in the OECD countries; two thirds in developing economies; and half of all jobs globally (around two billion).
The “Asian century” will be a
bleak
one for Europe unless it develops a genuinely common economy and acts collectively on the international stage.
Yet, in another sense, his participation made perfect sense, as it reflected the ongoing development of a transatlantic populist alliance, a
bleak
variation on the “geography of values” upon which the Cold War alliance was based.
South Korea – the seventh-largest trading country in the world, and one of the most prominent economic success stories of the last 50 years – is at risk of such a
bleak
future as a result, first and foremost, of demographics.
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