Sentences with phrase «gloomy scenario»

People who suffer from depression and other mood disorders tend to not only ruminate on negative events from the past but also spin out gloomy scenarios for the future.

One gloomy scenario envisions the Common Core lurching toward a possible terminal fate, at least in states where there is rising opposition.

Perhaps the most worrying unknown is what will occur along the state's coast when the world's glaciers and ice sheets melt; a particularly gloomy scenario has predicted that the sea level could rise by more than 20 ft, potentially inundating the busy ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

Given this gloomy scenario, new thinking is urgently required about how to secure a good majority in the June referendum, one that does not leave the bitter aftertaste and sense of betrayal which has occurred in Scotland since the 2014 referendum on independence.

The simulations showed that a 40 percent reduction in fly infestation of nests would extend the predicted time to extinction by 60 years, which would mean more than 100 years to extinctions in the two gloomy scenarios.

Unfortunately, if pessimistic predictions pan out that the U.S. economy will generate slower growth going forward, then stock market returns of only five per cent a year would bring about the gloomier scenario.

Fitch ratings agency added to the gloomy scenario: «The reality of the fiscal retrenchment to which many European governments are now committed poses downside risk to already anaemic growth forecasts, and reduces the visibility of corporate revenues and cash generation.

A collection of gloomy scenarios, Screen delves into both the historical and the dreamy or imaginary sides of cinematic architecture and atmospheres.

If not, we will be in one of those gloomy scenarios.»

The sliver lining to this gloomy scenario is its effect on climate.

We should still attempt to preempt this gloomy scenario but I am not sanguine about our system's ability to adapt with logical aforethought.