Sentences with phrase «many bleak days»

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.

For those investors whose spending requirements are near and can't afford to be over-exposed to the volatility of equities, these are bleak days.

The world feels pretty bleak these days, and this was a delightful ray of sunshine cutting through the stormy clouds.

After so many bleak days recently and the endless negativity this win is a welcome burst of sunshine.

The rest of that bleak day was chronicled by Curtis Casewit in a 1963 book called Ski Racing.

But it was a bleak day too for the unemployed with a tired rehash of free market policies in the summit statement and no new money.

But he added: «It's a very bleak day.»

Fourteenth day of April was a bleak day for Mrs Akaninyene Nnonno, a mother of five and petty trader in Akwa Ibom State as the news...

Today, I'm wearing this deep v - neck romper from Jenabelle and although hot pink is a bold move, it's a great way to express your personality and brighten up any bleak day.

Try it, it can give you a lift and make you smile on an otherwise bleak day.

Has ever there been a bleaker day?

Who: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Ciaran Hinds and Mark Strong What: In the bleak days of the Cold War, veteran spy George Smiley is lured out of retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's ranks.

Hitting movie theaters this weekend: New Year's Eve — Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Biel, Ashton Kutcher The Sitter — Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor, Sam Rockwell Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (limited)-- Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy Movie of the Week Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy The Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy The Plot: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley (Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to -LSB-...]

The Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy The Plot: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley (Oldman) is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

With the district's budget picture looking bleaker every day, Cyr knew that if he was going to sustain our progress in the arts, he needed to develop student, parent, and community support.

We are treated to an uncommon, insider's look at the new Russia, where high rollers live in sumptuous style and ordinary folk live as they did in the bleak days of Communism.

In those bleak days, despite unrelenting hardship and fear, they sought to maintain their religious faith by smuggling a potato and some margarine into camp — elements which they used to construct a makeshift candle so they could surreptitiously celebrate Hanukkah.»

For those investors whose spending requirements are near and can't afford to be over-exposed to the volatility of equities, these are bleak days.

On those bleak days where the rain is pouring and the wind is up, be thankful your dog is fine with a walk around the block and pity the person with the typical Toller who is soaked through and hypothermic in comparison.

The dogs bring a moment of happiness on what may be a bleak day, and that's a gift.

«At the end of a particularly bleak day my girlfriend saw fit to stage an intervention, ambushing me with a rule - breaking plate of salmon and beans for dinner.

A gym membership, yearly vacation bonus, or free meals in a canteen are things that can lift one's spirits on a bleak day.

Office caravans may need a jump start on bleak days, too.

Not exact matches

Against this bleak backdrop, Venezuela's year - on - year production losses are likely to total at least 800,000 barrels a day this year based on current trends and could top the 1 million barrels a day mark.

If you use a smartphone, the numbers are bleaker still — you're tethered to work for 13.5 hours a day, with another five hours spent emailing on weekends, according to a 2012 survey from the Center for Creative Leadership.

When things seemed bleak later, they looked back on Buytopia's early days and thought: We've been through far worse.

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

It is the man and the woman to whom the act remains, each time, as fresh and beautiful, as it was the first time, who are able to sustain and perpetuate their first sense of its glory in the midst of the sober or bleak or sordid realities of day to day life, and who can feel, afresh each time, a boundless gratitude for each other and for this blessed source of sweetness and strength — it is they who are the truly «virgin», the truly pure and chaste; and (on the Humanist hypothesis) it is they who are the remnant selected by grace to be the true and spiritual seed of the risen Christ.33

Our bleak church building reflected the theology: it was aptly situated in the Pacific Northwest with its endless days of dreary, overcast weather.

One day it's as bleak as late autumn with winds that howl and rain that raps on the window pains.

I made this back in the days of boards - studying (good food gave me something to look forward to in my otherwise rather - bleak existence), and brought some to school with me to share with my fellow basement dwellers in the catacombs.

So many thanks for warming my cold house with this yummy recipe on such a bleak and rainy day!

So, when it snows (and Mother Nature saw fit to drop 10 ″ in the last 12 hours), I turn to one of my favorite soups for comfort on this bleak February day.

Yummy soup for a bleak winter day... thanks for the recipe and chance to win this wonderful kitchen item.

Save one beautiful snowstorm, our days in that hotel were bleak — walking the dog in Midtown and needing to go blocks to find even a tiny patch of earth, making the long trek to the foreign world of the Madison Square Park playground, cooking for three in the tiny kitchenette, and other catastrophes major and minor.

Even if you're more health nut than sweet tooth, a life without dessert starts to feel a little bleak — saying no to birthday cakes or rainy day cookies and tea.

After surviving the bleak winter, it's nice to be outdoors but it's very hard to eat properly and be out in the world for most of the day.

The future is looking bleaker by the day especially with Liverpool buying players they need and world class ones at that.

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.

That means that although it may be slightly bleak one, this season ending could still throw up some surprises, and 50 % of North London would love to be celebrating St. Totteringham Day.

It was looking bleak for the French centre back, and also Arsenal's defensive problems, the thought of having a solid defense again like the invincible days were optimistic.

Some days when my goals seem so far away, I feel bleak about reaching them.

Despite efforts from local officials, who are working to bring change, any future development plans often look bleak as many sites are highly contaminated from the days of Bethlehem Steel.

The bleak side of this eventful day was the measly 24 percent of 4.3 million registered voters making it the lowest turnout in more than half a century.

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.

A tall, kindly man of 57, Willett works seven days a week, even on holidays, in the bleak labyrinth of Bell Labs, pursuing his goal with an uncommonly single - minded devotion.

So the bleak December day after we learned at 10 weeks that our developing baby had died, I was scheduled for what they call a D&C with Evac.

In the winter months, when humans tend to become depressed by the bleak, sunless days, you can bask in your home sauna and come away refreshed.

I believe that with some practice just about anyone can abstain from food for an extended period of time with little discomfort, but for a lot of people, the idea of going without food for a day and a half is a bleak proposition.

I've gained an extra 10 lbs overnight, have raging PMS, or am super depressed and have spent the entire day eating chips in my PJs binge watching bleak melancholic foreign films on Netflix.