Sentences with phrase «bleak year of»

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.

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

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

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But 100 years later, the Christmas Truce remains a bright spot in an otherwise bleak conflict that ushered in many aspects of modern war.

Shares in the online travel services company are being marked down sharply Friday after a bleak earnings report that fell short of consensus forecasts and led the company to cut its own forecast for earnings this year.

On an otherwise bleak day when Bombardier announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs worldwide over the next two years, the company also issued a rare, long - awaited piece of good news: Air Canada has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to 75 CSeries aircraft.

Things look equally bleak based on metrics typically used by investors to evaluate a borrower's ability to make payments: In Asia and Latin America, companies» debt now represents roughly four years of operating profits, up from fewer than two years prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

A few years ago, the future of bitcoin in China looked bleak.

SINGAPORE, Oct 30 (Reuters)-- The outlook for oil and natural gas markets remains bleak for the rest of the year and much of 2016, meaning there will be no let up in pressure to control costs, executives from two European energy majors said.

The outlook for oil and natural gas markets remains bleak for the rest of the year and much of 2016, executives from two European energy majors say.

Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens» Bleak House; he made his first appearance 140 years ago, yet those who are acquainted with the principal hierophants of New Age spirituality may receive more than a slight shock of recognition: He was....

Published on Jan 15, 2013 Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

Asked why more people are sleeping rough, Mr Quagliozzi answered: «We've a perfect storm over the last few years where rising rents - particularly in the private rental sector, wages not going up as fast of those rents and welfare reform are contributing to a very bleak picture...»

Skimpole lives in the pages of Charles Dickens» Bleak House; he made his first appearance 140 years ago, yet those who are acquainted with the principal hierophants of New Age spirituality may receive more than a slight shock of recognition:

Program Description Over 60,000 years ago, the first modern humans — people physically identical to us today — left their African homeland and entered Europe, then a bleak and inhospitable continent in the grip of the Ice Age.

Tuesday's result means the chances of that happening look bleak, and with City also well adrift of Chelsea in the title race, it could be the beginning of the end for their 61 - year - old manager.

This paints a bleak picture for the Gunners, but if the last 18 years has taught us anything it is that the club tends to find a way of securing its place in the Champions League

I agree — if Wenger's level of control is such that the board has no expectations for the club other than to make champions league qualification every year then the future is miserable and bleak.

Our board are the least ambitious of the lot, it's sad to say, but # 203 million is nothing these days, especially over 3 years, and the prospect of Kroenke taking complete ownership of the club, the future looks bleak I'm afraid.

And whilst everyone can see the effect the stadium construction had on spending (zero net spend for nearly 10 years) this too is airbrushed out of any conversation as to what Arsenal should have achieved in the «bleak» years between 2006 - 2013.

The 21 - year - old's United future looked bleaker than ever when publicly eviscerated by Mourinho, yet a meeting with the manager led to a surprise substitute appearance against Everton and a start at Sunderland, with the left - back performing impressively at the Stadium of Light.

Things looked bleak for 20 - year - old Onyekuru at the start of the year, as his World Cup dreams appeared to have gone up in smoke.

Espn soccernet had on fergie marvellous 25 years, not forgetting the amount of luck on his side and the 12 man the referee at old trafford on his side, got to hand it to him he knows how to find, manage and disperse of players, wish I could say the same for mr wenger for last half of a decade, I not going to rant about wenger and the dissapointments but I ask for fans not to put down all their cards in favour of arsenal performances as history looks bleak as wenger hasn't taken us over to the trophy cabinet exploration for a while.

The outlook for Manchester United midfielder Schweinsteiger is notably more bleak, with the 31 - year - old having suffered a tear of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.

The problem is that in the bleak landscape of austerity, where local councils have had their budgets halved since 2010 and are looking at losing another third of their funding over the next four years, a service which isn't even used by their own residents could start to look like an easy cut to make.

The picture is particularly bleak in New York where dairy sales represent about half of total farm sales every year.

Commenting on the nature of the world human rights report, Amesu said though human rights report from the 160 countries under review seemed «bleak», however, «there were some successes recorded during the year.»

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

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

Burnham also followed an emotionally charged address from 91 - year - old activist Harry Leslie Smith, who spoke of growing up in a «barbarous, bleak and uncivilised» time before public healthcare.

The city is planning to spend $ 337 million in the coming fiscal year to shore up the bleak financial situation for its Health and Hospitals Corporation, which de Blasio said was struggling under the weight of detrimental changes in federal reimbursements for Medicaid and health costs.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has just published its 2009 report on poverty and social exclusion and it's a bleak indictment of the Labour years.

«The increased death rate is cause for concern, because the prognosis for this tumour is bleak, with less than five percent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.

The malignancy often remains undiagnosed until the cancer has spread, leaving patients with a bleak prognosis and a five - year survival rate of less than 30 percent.

Half a million penguins pull up to this bleak shore in Patagonia every year, after one of the most astonishing migrations in all of nature.

«Good health care has allowed me to conquer physical and mental illness and continue to work, to express myself, to enjoy life even when it had all the makings of a bleak month or year.

These twelve and thirteen year olds imagined the details of a horrific, bleak future that would have given Ray Bradbury and George Orwell chills.

However, after enduring Midwest winters for 30 - years, I am starved for something to brighten the bleak, blandness of the winter doldrums, so my Spring wardrobe includes lots of bright pinks, yellows, orange and turquoise.

It may be because of this that the dating scene in the city has been said to be in a pretty bleak state for many years.

Bullet Witch is set on a bleak planet earth in the year 2013 with human kind on the brink of extinction and hideous demons creating a tidal wave of destruction and havoc.

Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) is a lonely 11 - year - old boy who escapes from his bleak reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger).

Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

«We Need to Talk About Kevin» is one of the most beautifully bleak psychological fake - outs the cinema's given us in years, as Lynne Ramsay («Ratcatcher,» «Morvern Callar «-RRB- directs an adaptation of Lionel Shriver «s 2003 novel.

Less relentlessly bleak than Winter's Bone, which along with Frozen River is an obvious inspiration here, the life - on - the - margins drama makes a fine, tense vehicle for Tessa Thompson, who in the last few years has stood out in a variety of genres.

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

Shorn of her hair, Ripley is grief - stricken over the loss of Newt and Hicks («they have been released from all darkness and pain,» says Warden Andrews [Brian Glover] almost wistfully) but manages to salvage enough of Bishop to verify what's been killing the weaponless inmates of this bleak futuristic big house, all of whom appear to be British — one of them sings a snatch of the 1969 Zager & Evans chestnut, «In the Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)», before being ground into chow.

The bleak and grey landscape reflects the twilight years of their marriage, a relationship that survives on routine and monotony.

In this film adaptation, the bleak streets of 19th Century London are recreated in dramatic detail, providing the perfect environment for us to observe the moral decay of Benjamin Barker, a barber who is sent to jail for fifteen years on false charges by Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who fancied his wife.

At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers of women filmmakers in the competitions of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's main competition section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian film Godless.

Directed with the usual dark and bleak look of Zack Snyder films like last year's fan disappointment Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the new movie fails to find the fun in all of this and ranks as a setback for the genre after three previous winners this year: Wonder Woman, Spider - Man: Homecoming and the current Thor: Ragnarok.