Sentences with phrase «bleak landscape for»

A new law centre has opened in Moss Side, Manchester — a rare piece of good news in an otherwise bleak landscape for the not - for - profit sector.

Doheny added that he and Giuliani share exasperation at the Democrats» policies that have «squandered trillions in tax dollars, rung up the largest deficit in history, and created a bleak landscape for small business owners.»

A sense of being embattled: a reliance perhaps on rules rather than answers to profound questions raised in a rapidly - changing world, a sense of the Church as a fortress rather than a Mother and teacher, a bleak landscape for Biblical studies.

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In a bleak environment for retail, the parent company of Marshalls, T.J. Maxx, and HomeGoods continues to dominate the landscape.

Such prose could be translated back into the language of Psalms, which also allow for at - homeness in a bleak landscape.

When I was developing the recipe for this bowl, I knew I wanted to create something vibrantly colorful in contrast to the bleak winter landscape outside.

This afternoon he mapped out a bleak landscape in his spending review, but the Chancellor was keen to tell MPs that Waterloo would be restored in time for the 200th anniversary of Wellington's famous victory to mark «a great victory of coalition forces over a discredited former regime that impoverished millions».

Speaking before the Lib Dem conference, which opened in Brighton on Saturday, the former party leader and deputy prime minister said that, while the landscape might look bleak for Lib Dems, with just eight MPs, they should not think they will necessarily «be out in the wilderness for a generation».

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.

Bleaker than the landscape is the infrastructure for some 80,000 people clinging to an agrarian lifestyle, often along drainage canals within regions that used to be covered by marshes.

The harrowing sequences of men being mown down by machine gun fire, one after another without a chance, the screams of the young troops as they go crazy from the constant shelling, the mud, barren landscapes, bodies, barbwire and of course the famous bleak depressing ending for the main lead nailing home how cheap life was.

In this bleak West Texas landscape where everyone seems to be struggling, you find yourself rooting, inexplicably, for all of them against a clear villain: the faceless, predatory bank.

At once tender and bleak, it provided a landscape for the performers and the filmmakers to put forth a new brand of cinema, one that would become the famed «new American cinema» for a decade to come.

Amid a bleak landscape, some refugees find educational success — offering a model for educators about what works

A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard - fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

Child's language is as spare and tough as the bleak, windswept American landscapes that form the settings for his Jack Reacher series.

On January 10th 2014 the company officially filed for insolvency and the future of the German book selling landscape looks bleak.

Whether you're filling out an application at Wal - Mart or begging a relative to let you work for his landscaping crew that starts at 5 a.m., the prospects are usually as bleak as the pay.

Command a squadron of fully customized Armored Core Units in a dystopian future ravaged by war and stripped of its natural resources The last remaining resources needed for the survival of your faction are scavenged and bitterly fought for in the No Man's Land, a bleak landscape that offers little hope for survival.

Over on West Twenty - Second Street, visitors dove out of the cold into openings for Nayland Blake and Darren Almond at two Matthew Marks galleries, clearly happy to have art to distract them from the bleak landscape outside.

It features artists including Julian Opie and George Shaw — Turner prize nominated in 2011 for his bleak views of Coventry painted in Humbrol model airplane enamels — who is displaying for the first time a huge ink drawing inspired by a 2006 Tate exhibition of Constable's «six - footer» landscapes.

Mindful of that history, the photographer Katy Grannan traveled along the valley's Highway 99 for her latest body of work, which is a mix of close - up color portraits taken in glaring sunlight and bleak black - and - white landscapes.

This contemporary gallery has a taste for street art, and they are currently exhibiting Crumbling Cities by Nether, an urban art campaign focused on improving the bleak landscape of Baltimore through forms of street art meant to generate public discussion.

He does this by painting a fairly accurate and bleak picture of what the landscape looks like for new lawyers.

In 2010, the IP landscape seemed bleak for rights holders with unfavourable decisions being made regularly against global brands such as Adidas, Lacoste and Sony Ericsson.

Finally, amid a sometimes bleak - looking landscape in legal aid, the opening of the Greater Manchester Law Centre made for some very welcome news.

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.