It's pretty bleak.

And it's a bleak future for them.

Yet, the exceptions are few and bleak experience is dominant.11

For one hour a day they're brought to these bleak and bland exercise yards.

A science fiction adventure game set in a bleak post apocalyptic vision of the future

So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized.

When I was a student here in Oxford in the 1970s, the future of the world was bleak.

He drew their attention to the bleak position of the general purpose funds of the drug programme of UNODC.

The present review should take account of the bleak employment record that has been produced by current industrial patterns.

Sadly, the underprivileged in poor countries have no hope for any silver lining to brighten their permanently bleak existence.

Should we neglect to address this responsibility fairly and properly, the situation in this volatile region will remain bleak.

So it sounds like I'm painting a really bleak picture of this place, but I promise there is good news.

The report included a bleak description of the situation in the region, characterized by more acts of violence and terrorism.

And what I found was on other websites, even by the third page of Google results, Outlook is bleak , Prognosis is grim.

In some countries, substantial peace initiatives undertaken in 2003 had aroused hope for a solution, but in other countries prospects were bleak.

Here, we agree with the Secretary General's analysis, especially when he sketches the bleak and alarming picture that is Côte d'Ivoire today.

The economy continues, however, on its downward trend and the outlook remains bleak as infrastructure continues to deteriorate and fall into disrepair.

In terms of per capita income, the picture is bleak, with the Palestinian people's welfare falling by more than one third between 1999 and 2004.

Notwithstanding, the future of the Centre looks bleak, as there is no foreseeable reliable source of funding that would ensure the operational sustainability of the Centre.

This year will be bleak. The question we need to be asking now is, how can we enhance the likelihood that we will eventually emerge into a robust recovery?

Mr. Southcott (Australia) Last year when Australia spoke under this agenda item, we had some grave concerns about the situation in the Middle East, and our prognosis was bleak.

Some claim that it is not only acceptable it is desirable. Hope, they argue, is critical to aid recovery, and a bleak diagnosis should not be allowed to kill it.

With HIV AIDS adding to this bleak picture (5 per cent of the population is infected), it is not surprising that Haiti lives in a climate of recurrent social unrest.

In these circumstances, a majority of European voters have recently shown, once again, that they favor the right and its tendency to support the fortune seekers. A bleak future awaits us.

On the occasion that holidays in China and other regions of Asia lead to a bleak data for the region next week, the European political situation may become a source of market volatility.

In short, the solution to the Cyprus crisis is no solution at all for the eurozone. Unless the authorities embrace a growth strategy and do so quickly the eurozone s prospects will become increasingly bleak.

Although unemployment rates reflect the bleak picture, employment figures reveal the resilience of the economy and the social cohesiveness of the Palestinian people that prevented a complete collapse in the face of devastating conditions.

Deeply concerned that, as noted in the report of the Secretary General, the future of the Regional Centre looks bleak, as there is no foreseeable reliable source of funding that would ensure its operational sustainability,

The No vote sullied this image of a balanced France. Indeed, the French themselves are among the first to lament their bleak situation, inventing a new concept la déclinologie to describe this loss of self confidence.

The No vote sullied this image of a balanced France. Indeed, the French themselves are among the first to lament their bleak situation, inventing a new concept la déclinologie to describe this loss of self confidence.

Very often this year, in various settings including last week during the general debate of the First Committee we have heard bleak assessments of the current status of disarmament and non proliferation, especially in the nuclear field.

TOKYO The eurozone is facing a bleak economic outlook, with growth remaining stagnant and the threat of deflation looming large. The economist Martin Feldstein, who was skeptical of the initiative from the start, now calls it a failure.

But inequality and a sense of deprivation do contribute to resentment and social instability, threatening security. Excluded and facing bleak life prospects, young people, in particular, often experience anomie and may turn to anti social behavior, including violence.

Western Europe is increasingly inhabited by aging populations that have lost the incentive and enthusiasm to work hard, take risks, and be ambitious. Without an inflow of new blood and new ideas, the old Continent's economic future looks bleak.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects. Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities.

As the second night fell on Palu after Friday's earthquake and tsunami, friends and family of those still missing were holding out hope that their loved ones would be the miracles that leaven the bleak story lines of natural disasters.

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Leviathan faced an uphill public relations battle. But Leviathan's bleak portrait of contemporary Russian life actually confirms many of the reasons why Americans have been largely dubious about Russia's ability to reform following communism's collapse.

This bleak picture, which is far from being exhaustive, shows us to what extent the scourge of child soldiers is a permanent threat to our societies and a serious violation of the rights of children by those who are recruiting them.

While the above mentioned payments mitigated somewhat the bleak picture at the end of 2004, the amount outstanding at the end of April was still over 2.2 billion, and further new assessments in 2005 of around 4 billion are expected.

Only later would I see the dresses also as a proclamation that in your dim kitchen, your laundry, your bleak concrete yard, what you revealed of yourself was a fabulation your real sensual nature, veiled in those sexless vestments, was utterly your dominion.

For all the successes of recent decades, the fact remains that 20 of the world's population still lives on less than 1 a day, while HIV AIDS and other communicable diseases are ravaging many societies. Other social indicators offer a bleak picture.

There were many reasons not to have expected Malaysia to be a success. Just as Malaysia was gaining its independence, the Nobel Prize winning economist Gunnar Myrdal wrote an influential book called Asian Drama , in which he predicted a bleak future for the region.

The negative effects of these problems are now interacting, feeding back on themselves, and spreading to the rest of the global economy. And yet, despite a palpable sense of concern that something is very wrong, the prognosis for significant change is bleak and deteriorating.

I mention those statistics not to paint a bleak and negative picture of our development efforts, but to underscore the fact that, in this globalized world, the continued and indeed, increased support of the developed countries is necessary if we really wish to make progress.

With Sonia Gandhi in ill health, Rahul unable to connect to the electorate even in his historically safe constituency, and the Nehru Gandhi brand name having lost its appeal, the prospects for the Congress in 2014 look bleak. Only the outcome will tell whether it can survive.