Sentences with phrase «more bleak»

A recent study8 examining peer status in clinically - diagnosed 7 — 9 year old children with ADHD from the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA) 9,10 found that 52 % fell in the rejected category (when the classification system of Coie et al11 is used) and less than 1 % were of popular status.8 When children who did not fit into any category were excluded in calculating these percentages, the situation was even more bleak, with 80 % of children with ADHD falling in the rejected group.8 These figures are consistent with previous work indicating that 82 % of children with ADHD have peer rejection scores one standard deviation or more above the mean and 60 % are two standard deviations or more above the mean.12

Family laws are not universal — they vary from state to state — so your situation may be more bleak in one jurisdiction than another.

Here in 2017, the market for cord - cutting, streaming TV looks a lot more bleak.

If you have some other health issue that prevents you from qualifying with them, your options are much more bleak.

Once the conference kicked off for real, however, the outlook was more bleak.

but what has built my confidence is the relentless swing by other leading centres of climate science to closer alignment with his typically more bleak assessments and predictions.

It is of course not easy for most people to be certain of the quality of such specialist science, but what has built my confidence is the relentless swing by other leading centres of climate science to closer alignment with his typically more bleak assessments and predictions.

The world of Fallout has never felt more real, and has never held more bleak beauty, than from within a VR visor

It's essentially a more bleak version of the Cathedral Ward from the original game.

Some say it's too bleak and some say it should be more bleak.

A gold hue is present throughout everything in the game, broken up by the more bleak blacks, and greys that we associate with normal cities and buildings.

While regional centres such as Labuan Bajo can feel quite prosperous, in the rural upcountry, beset by high unemployment, low secondary school enrolment and poor health services, the outlook is far more bleak.

The postsecondary story is, if anything, even more bleak.

The film is shot in a high - contrast style that makes everything seem a little more bleak and narrow than it must.

Alfonso Cuarón takes the reins from Chris Columbus to deliver a darker, scarier and more bleak outlook on what's to come in Harry Potter's life.

The film is a kind of endurance test, asking the viewer to witness a progressively more disturbing and more bleak cinematic world, all...

mediocre film that is more bleak and depressing than it is entertaining.

As you might imagine, Charlie's journey gets more and more bleak as he faces starvation, thirst and eventual homelessness.

The finding suggests that resistant strains may permanently dominate sensitive ones, says Bruce Levin, a microbiologist at Emory University in Atlanta: «It makes the future look a little more bleak.»

The key questions are what exactly the City is doing to fortify finances and whether it will be enough when the city's financial picture is indeed more bleak.

When combined with no increase in property tax revenues, he says Oneida County's future could be a bit more bleak.

This report illustrates a future that is more bleak, a place where we lose some of nature's gifts.

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.

But predicting the future as being more bleak than I can see any logical argument for just gives me more enthusiasm to see him stick out another year, finish 3rd (maybe win a cup, or do well in the Champions League!)

Probably not, but things are certainly more bleak than they were when the team arrived at Paul Brown Stadium this morning.

I was once hopeful about the season starting at a reasonable time, but now it is looking more and more bleak.

When you do this you will quickly realize that we've never been farther from realizing our dreams for success in the EPL or abroad and that our prospects for future success have never been more bleak.

For those under sixty - five, the picture has become far more bleak than it was.

Though Stout is fully aware that the social reality is often more bleak, he confronts injustice with a passion born out of his awareness that something much better is not only possible but already exists.

When we focus on young people, the picture is even more bleak.

Last week, Kint updated those figures, and the picture they paint has become even more bleak.

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As Crosby said, the consequences from that bleak transformation could be more severe than most of us can imagine.

The hope isn't to make the workspace less professional or productive — it's that, when given a space that isn't bleak and boring, employees will enjoy doing their work and be more productive as a result.

The Canadian dollar arguably has more room to reflect concerns of a bleak NAFTA outcome.

Statistics on women are more readily available, but they paint a bleak picture of the state of gender diversity in the VC world.

By the time BlackBerry 10 is released, the company could be working with a smaller subscriber base, and it will have suffered more reputational damage in the wake of bleak earnings reports, further souring consumers on its products.

Many would argue, however, that Amazon has been a positive for the postal service, which has suffered from bleak finances for more than a decade as other means of communication replace first class mail.

The retail outlook was bleak when, on the first earnings call of 2017, Target announced plans to invest more in digital, fulfillment...

Its tourism board has launched the #MyBmore campaign to encourage residents to post personal, positive content online to counterbalance the bleaker images more typically associated with their city.

As bleak as is the situation which Bauerlein describes, I suspect the reality is even more depressing.

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....

New research by the Centre for Social Justice revealed that more than 75 per cent of teenagers aspire to be married, but Rt Rev Mark Davies said the reality of married life today is bleak.

I feel that what must be done is to bring the «absurd hero» within the context of a revised, naturalistic, neo-Whiteheadian ontology — this merger will dispel the harshness of bleak despair from the one position and the remnants of parsonage Victorianism from the other as it links creative insecurity, adventure, with a more penetrating metaphysical analysis than the existentialists were ever able to achieve.

just happens to be concerned with human beings, it's bound to be much more concerned about how we generally treat each other: you know, decency, concern, empathy --- all the things that are so important in this otherwise bleak and indifferent universe.

But what if, on the other hand, there is no final triumph of good, and we simply face the bleak prospect of more of the same?

Individual writers will, of course, always be able to dream up deplorable but charismatic rogues with enormous appetites, like George MacDonald Frasier's Flashman or Roald Dahl's Uncle Oswald; more - ambitious artists may produce the occasional jubilant amoralist with a gift for momentarily transforming the bleak absurdity of existence into a rude carnival, like Alvaro Mutis» Maqroll the Gaviero.

We have become used to dismissing matters of religion («Oh, it's all rubbish»; «Causes more trouble than it's worth» etc) and we find it easier to sludge along with our culture soaked in TV soap operas and rising crime figures and drunken teenagers hanging around bleak shopping centres shouting at one another on Saturday nights.

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:

Catholic bloggers, more at home with discussing vestments and liturgy, reeled in the face of savage fast - paced journalism and things looked bleak.