Sentences with phrase «bleak day for»

Fourteenth day of April was a bleak day for Mrs Akaninyene Nnonno, a mother of five and petty trader in Akwa Ibom State as the news...

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If you use a smartphone, the numbers are bleaker still — you're tethered to work for 13.5 hours a day, with another five hours spent emailing on weekends, according to a 2012 survey from the Center for Creative Leadership.

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

For those investors whose spending requirements are near and can't afford to be over-exposed to the volatility of equities, these are bleak days.

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

So many thanks for warming my cold house with this yummy recipe on such a bleak and rainy day!

So, when it snows (and Mother Nature saw fit to drop 10 ″ in the last 12 hours), I turn to one of my favorite soups for comfort on this bleak February day.

Yummy soup for a bleak winter day... thanks for the recipe and chance to win this wonderful kitchen item.

Save one beautiful snowstorm, our days in that hotel were bleak — walking the dog in Midtown and needing to go blocks to find even a tiny patch of earth, making the long trek to the foreign world of the Madison Square Park playground, cooking for three in the tiny kitchenette, and other catastrophes major and minor.

After surviving the bleak winter, it's nice to be outdoors but it's very hard to eat properly and be out in the world for most of the day.

It was looking bleak for the French centre back, and also Arsenal's defensive problems, the thought of having a solid defense again like the invincible days were optimistic.

But it was a bleak day too for the unemployed with a tired rehash of free market policies in the summit statement and no new money.

Prosperi managed to capture a few bats to sustain himself for the nine days he wandered through the bleak landscape, where peak temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit are not unusual.

So the bleak December day after we learned at 10 weeks that our developing baby had died, I was scheduled for what they call a D&C with Evac.

I believe that with some practice just about anyone can abstain from food for an extended period of time with little discomfort, but for a lot of people, the idea of going without food for a day and a half is a bleak proposition.

One of the most powerful entries in competition had to settle for the jury prize, effectively third place: «Loveless» («Nelyubov»), a bleak drama about a couple's divorce that morphs into a brutal indictment of modern - day Russia.

But as the days get shorter, the films look to get bleaker, as a trailer for a new young - skewing end - times picture demonstrates.

Dark Places tells the exceptionally bleak story of Libby Day (Charlize Theron), the survivor of the brutal massacre of her family decades earlier, for which her brother Ben (Corey Stoll) was convicted, largely based on her testimony.

Also Worthy and Worthwhile «Keep The Lights On,» «Neighboring Sounds,» «A Royal Affair» (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard guy should have also been in our Breakout Performances of 2012 piece), «The Forgiveness Of Blood» (already Criterion approved with good reason), «Shut Up and Play the Hits,» «Compliance» (captivatingly ugly), «2 Days In New York» (hilariously neurotic, Julie Delpy is clearly the heir apparent to Woody Allen), «Cosmopolis,» «Side By Side,» «Argo,» «The Turin Horse» (Goodnight, Mr. Tarr you sweet prince of the bleak and wretched), «Once Upon A Time In Anatolia» (in many ways mesmerizing and beautiful, but for me, ultimately more in a cerebral way than in a moving, emotional one), «Goodbye Love» (Mia Hansen - Love clearly watches the films of her husband Olivier Assayas; a spiritual cousin to his last 3 - 4 pictures), «Elena,» «Francine» (great non-judgemental direction; Melissa Leo is terrific), «Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,» «Alps,» «The Loneliest Planet,» «The Kid With The Bike» and pretty much every film in our 11 Films You May Not Have Seen list.

The script by Gerald Ayres (Rich and Famous) suggests a bleaker film than what plays out here, and perhaps a bit more personal, but in the waning days of the disco era, superficial treatments were the norm for fare aimed at younger viewers.

To this day, the board of NAEP continues to release similarly bleak findings about American 4th graders» reading performance (National Center for Education Statistics, 2011).

I can't quite believe that I read an article this morning from the Heads» Round Table, the headline of which was: «Heads warn MPs of «extremely bleak» funding problems»; and in the week I read that the EEF were to spend # 2.5 million on a trial to assess the educational benefits of school trips to the theatre; and now we learn that Frank Green earns # 140,000 plus for a four day week.

No doubt about it, Snetterton has a feel of the past and even 60 years later the reasons for its origin can still make it a bleak and desolate place on a cold day.

For those investors whose spending requirements are near and can't afford to be over-exposed to the volatility of equities, these are bleak days.

After months of bleak winter days, blooming flowers fill us with hope for the sun - filled seasons ahead.

This new launch trailer paints a bleak picture for the COGs and Sera after the Locust invade on Emergence Day.

The rules and regulations change every day reflecting the bleak life in your country; and you often have to decide between earning enough money for you and your family and your duty.

«At the end of a particularly bleak day my girlfriend saw fit to stage an intervention, ambushing me with a rule - breaking plate of salmon and beans for dinner.

By: Erin Sheley PDF Version: Dogs Getting Their Day: Alberta Court of Appeal Rejects End - runs Around Animal Cruelty Laws Case Commented On: Regina v Sanaee, 2016 ABCA 289 (CanLII) The year 2016 has been bleak for animals in Canada.

Though there is plenty of evidence for such a bleak view of marriage in this day and age, long - term commitment to the one you love need not be a gamble.

Spring amazes me every year, we live with this bleak and bare landscape all winter, which seems to just go on forever, then all of a sudden these leaves and flowers start blooming and before I know it everything is green and lush again, birds are fluttering everywhere gathering food for their babies, the days get longer, and the air smells of all kinds of different flowers, right now I have lilacs and lily of the valley scenting the air.