Sentences with phrase «bleak year»

He said the general election «delivered a devastating result for the Labour party and the prospect of five bleak years ahead for our country».

For Elsie, Reba's questions are a stinging reminder of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII.

Contemptuous Irresolution 2 February 2007 After the Senate's failure to do its job threatened scientists with a very bleak year ahead, Congress comes through with a last - minute reprieve.

A routine interview between a reporter and an elderly baker brings out memories of darker times: her life in Germany during that last bleak year of WWII.

Furthermore, NPD reports that tech sales will be especially bleak this year.

When he was sixteen, he was captured by Irish pirates and spent six bleak years as a herdsman in County Mayo, during which he turned with fervor to Christ.

The next fifty years — from about 925 - 875, from Jeroboam and Rehoboam to Omri and Jehoshaphat — were on the whole bleak years in both kingdoms and apparently without prophets of outstanding stature.

The picture looked so bleak a year ago, with roughly a dozen people a week dying of opiate - related addictions in Erie County.

(I realize my confirmed travel plans look a little bleak this year.

2009 will be an extraordinarily bleak year because of one key factor, according to Jones: «The single factor that worked consistently to drive profitability in the past was the ability to drive up rates 6 % to 8 % per year, regardless of what else was happening.

After the Senate's failure to do its job threatened scientists with a very bleak year ahead, Congress comes through with a last - minute reprieve

Now there is just the bleak year ahead: politicians of middling ability barking empty phrases across the Commons, austerity followed by austerity and more austerity as far as the mind can comprehend.

It has been a bleak year for the world's coral.

Sarah Waters» The Paying Guests is set during the bleak years following WWI in a London home occupied by a widowed woman and her lonely spinster daughter, Frances.

(The average cash bonus on Wall Street was $ 121,150 in 2011, a bleak year for money manager compensation.)

This approach to found or recycled materials wasn't so much a departure as a necessity, especially during the bleak years of the Depression.