These are grim economic times, fellow TEDsters, grim economic times indeed.

Their grim plans were evident.

So, wonderful things and grim things.

So, this is a pretty grim picture.

But after four years the grim truth seeps out.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

We dread from our Lord a frowning grim Day.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

Truly, we fear from our Lord a woefully grim Day.

That is not a platitude it is a grim reality.

Families of the Paniai victims greeted such claims with grim incredulity.

Verily we dread from our Lord a Day grim and distressful.

Verily we dread from our Lord a Day grim and distressful.

This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that reality with the full belief that we can solve our problems with technology, and that's very understandable.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

I think we've all read the Grimms' fairy tales, which are, indeed, very grim.

So it's like the animal has the grim reaper inside of itself, speeding up aging.

And the grim picture in Africa I love Africa, and what do we see in Africa?

It is a grim but inescapable fact that our world lives under the shadow of global terrorism.

In 1899, Joseph Conrad released The Heart of Darkness, a tale of grim horror along the Congo River.

They're cross country skiing up the mountain with these grim expressions that make Dick Cheney look like Jerry Lewis.

And then you change the photograph he's shooting at, and it suddenly becomes rather grim and maybe less accessible. .

The meals a pregnant woman consumes constitute a kind of story, a fairy tale of abundance or a grim chronicle of deprivation.

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

And when you think that 80 percent of global trade in food now is controlled by just five multinational corporations, it's a grim picture.

To paraphrase Stalin The intentional killing of one person is murder, but that of a hundred, a thousand, or a million is merely a grim statistic.

It is against that grim backdrop, therefore, that we must consider the recommendations contained in the Secretary General's report and undertake a vigorous process of assessment.

Apparently, the bitter realization that maybe it could happen to us, but it obviously hasn't and it probably never will, makes our lives seem unbearably grim in comparison.

Such grim statistics definitely demand urgent attention and concerted efforts by the international community aimed at tackling and reversing the situation, as road traffic injuries are largely preventable.

In contrast, however, the decision with regard to the outcome document, which may very possibly be endorsed in the next few minutes, will be a rather grim one.

In those grim circumstances, the 2005 Review Conference provided a fresh occasion for reaffirming a common political commitment and continuing the significant progress made in 1995 and 2000.

First, what happens if politics does not trump economics, and Obama s policies don t start to produce a recovery? That is when the old political calculus may take its grim toll.

Even as aid groups began the grim motions of starting the gears of disaster relief, some complained that foreign aid workers with deep expertise were being prevented from traveling to Palu.

When they were born at 6 14 and 6 46 on April 15, 2005, our otherwise grim, humorless doctor looked at his watch, and was like, Hmm, April 15th tax day.

What is surprising for a European at least for this European at the moment is the relative optimism in all these cities. Yes, the economic news has been and remains grim.

The recent bombings in London and other terrorist acts in other parts of the world are grim reminders of the need to further strengthen and improve our efforts to counter terrorism.

Hope remains that Egypt will not become Algeria in 1992 (or Chile in 1973). But to avoid that grim fate, it is imperative that Muslim Brotherhood members fundamental rights now be protected.

In this case, history is not a metaphor. On the contrary, the root cause of the Eastern European attitudes now on grim display is to be found in World War II and its aftermath.

By basing economic policy on this experience, we could not only avert Olson s grim prophecy. We could also accelerate economic recovery, increase the pace of innovation, and raise livelihoods for millions of people worldwide.

Targeted attacks, forced displacement, sexual violence, forced conscription, indiscriminate killings, mutilation, hunger, disease and loss of livelihoods collectively paint an extremely grim picture of the human costs of armed conflict. (S 2005 740, para.

Obviously, if the application for World Heritage is viewed from the economic perspective, a heritage will be taken as a golden bowl , while its future will look grim no matter how good it is now.

Ms. Juul (Norway) said that the report by the Special Representative on human rights defenders (A 60 339) revealed a grim reality of threats, harassment and attacks targeting human rights defenders and their relatives worldwide.

PARIS Images from the refugee crisis in Europe have juxtaposed smiling crowds in Vienna and Munich with grim, unwelcoming faces in Budapest. The result has been a surge of commentary about the two Europes one welcoming, one forbidding.

Consider the grim statistics recently released by the Supreme People s Procuratorate (SPP). More than 42,000 government officials on average were investigated for corruption every year from 2002 to 2005, with more than 30,000 per year facing criminal charges.

With an unemployment rate of 25.3 and youth unemployment running at 53.9 the situation appears grim. Making matters worse, despite considerable gains in the last quarter of 2013, employment growth is far too weak to make a significant dent in joblessness.