Sentences with phrase «increasingly bleak»

Problem is, it's pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn't enough to keep global warming from crossing the «dangerous» two degree Celsius threshold — a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future, with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.

Kelly said prospects for the Kyoto treaty look increasingly bleak, and the coalition believes the best course is one that emphasizes technology - based solutions to the climate question.

For the past two decades, scientists have been monitoring the effects of a warming Arctic on the world's polar bears — and the bears» future has looked increasingly bleak.

Perhaps the spotlight on large - cap indexes alone is a deliberate effort to sidestep increasingly bleak price movement in other risk assets.

Instead, it is marketed as a kind of middle - of - the - road comedy - romance with horror elements, and while it does contain some rom - com and sitcom elements, the increasingly bleak nature of the storyline will probably turn off audiences for that kind of black material.

Recurring imagery that surrounds these moments is perhaps symbolic: Georges frequently closes windows; he deals with a pigeon trapped in the apartment; and paintings on the wall depict increasingly bleak landscapes with fewer people.

The Conservative party's prospects have become increasingly bleak, irrespective of the leadership it chooses or the image it projects.

Schalke are hoping to gain more «clarity» on the future of Leon Goretzka by the time the Bundesliga begins its annual winter break in mid-December, although their prospects of convincing the talented young box - to - box midfielder to stay appear increasingly bleak amid suggestions that he is set to choose between Barcelona and Bayern Munich.

The Potters» hopes of avoiding relegation from the Premier League are looking increasingly bleak and history is not on their side for Sunday's fixture.

It's also looking increasingly bleak for host nation Russia, with 3 - 0 and 3 - 1 defeats at home to Brazil and France respectively doing little to suggest that they will be among the main contenders for the trophy.

Management has made a priority of selling non-core assets to return capital to shareholders, but the company's prospects for sustainable long - term profit growth in a low - rate environment look increasingly bleak.

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As a result, the San Joaquin Valley lags in growth — a bleak fact that has become increasingly apparent during the current economic recovery.

Harold Skimpole never quite manages to lose his charm, and yet readers of Bleak House become increasingly appalled by him.

But in the past decade, a series of increasingly spectacular experiments conducted by Giacino and Weill Cornell Medical Center neurologist Nicholas Schiff has proved that this bleak verdict is often wrong.

Hitting that sweet spot between comedy and tragedy, this faith - restoring German film conjures moments of surreal hilarity out of a somewhat bleak situation: an estranged dad adopts a jokey new persona in an effort to connect with his miserable, corporate - slave daughter, with increasingly unpredictable results.

Alternating between bouts of increasingly heavy drinking and half - hearted research for a book on Pierre Bonnard, Max ultimately spends most of his time wallowing in two separate spheres of memory: the bleak recent past of his wife's illness, which she faced with considerably cooler acceptance than he, and the summer of 1955, an end - of - innocence season for the 12 - year - old Max (Matthew Dillon).

This bleak image of impoverished and increasingly hostile oceans emerges not from any one new study of human impact on the 70 % of the planet that is covered by water, but from a long cool look at the big picture so far.

With reports of organization issues, major finance concerns, and an increasingly growing list of top executives voluntarily abandoning Faraday Future, things look a little bleak.