It's pretty bleak.

It's a very gloomy day.

The external scenario, however, is gloomier.

This time, the mood was dark. And the first days of 2014 have made it darker still.

And I'm going to just close on a very somber note.

For starters, it is important to acknowledge that the outlook looks bleak.

But all is not gloomy in India s e commerce.

If the past is a good predictor of the future, the outlook is bleak.

As the encyclical makes clear, the future does not have to be bleak.

The sky is gloomy and gray a typical rainy season sky.

The Obama on display in the second debate and the third was harder, chillier, sadder, and more somber.

There will be many problems arising from the cut alone, not least of which will be the slaughter of 20 of the dairy cows in East Germany and the resultant over supply of cow beef on the market, not only in Europe but around the world.

But emerging markets do not deserve the doom and gloom treatment they are getting these days.

It was as gloomy inside the mansion as the sunlight was dazzling outside.

In an environment in which compromise is regarded as a dirty word, Egypt s future appears to be far from bright.

Mr. Obama made the speech that was needed , reports the New York Times, judging it both sombre and edifying .

Hope, they argue, is critical to aid recovery, and a bleak diagnosis should not be allowed to kill it.

Unless the authorities embrace a growth strategy and do so quickly the eurozone s prospects will become increasingly bleak.

First the bad news Paris is somber, if not depressed, after the appalling terrorist attacks earlier this month.

If one considers the strategic ambitions of the separatists and their Russian patrons, Ukraine's prospects are even bleaker.

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In a bleak economic climate, the argument goes, the only winners have been the wealthy, resulting in skyrocketing inequality.

In the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can't discern the signs of the times!

And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

In the context of this gloomy scenario, groups of students disillusioned by the perspectives of the present and inspired by fresh ideals have chosen to react by occupying university buildings.

It is also clear, at any rate to us Socialists, that their possible suspension should not create problems either for the countries of Central Europe to whom they represent an important economic contribution or for the jobless situation in East Germany and that therefore too transitional measures will have to be taken.

VEIL (LDR). (FR) Ladies and gentlemen, we were all dismayed and horrified by the news from East Jerusalem.

At a time when the Member States, especially those most seriously hamstrung by their debt, are choosing to reduce the resources earmarked for education and vocational training, the outlook appears bleak.

At a news conference last week, the secretary of defense painted a bleak picture of what could lie ahead a military with a shell but no core.

Indeed, it was precisely this logic that me led to give a very dark forecast in a widely covered speech in Singapore on August 19, 2008, a month before Lehman Brothers failed.

Law student Leanne Caulfield, President of the Irish Union of Students, sees a dismal future ahead, because the government is engaged in window dressing and is no longer offering young people prospects for the future.

Add the region s eastern and western peripheries Afghanistan and North Africa (including the Sahel and South Sudan) and the picture becomes even grimmer.

Deeply concerned that, as noted in the report of the Secretary General, the future of the Regional Centre looks bleak owing to the lack of a reliable source of funding that would ensure the sustainability of its operations,

Deeply concerned that, as noted in the report of the Secretary General, the future of the Regional Centre looks bleak, as there is no foreseeable reliable source of funding that would ensure its operational sustainability,

Beyond the sombre mourning of the occasion, there was much hope evident in Kurds, Armenians and Turks who want to set aside the animosity of the past and build a country that can accept its history and begin anew.

In the current Middle Eastern situation, already so troubled and so difficult, we fear that this may provide a pretext for the further escalation of violence and, above all, for the inclusion of problems which are unrelated, as Mr de la Malène has just said, and which must thus be treated separately.

South Korea the seventh largest trading country in the world, and one of the most prominent economic success stories of the last 50 years is at risk of such a bleak future as a result, first and foremost, of demographics.

In those days there was still countryside close to the city, farms, cornfields, cows even not far from our building with its blurred brick and long shadowy hallway you could find tracts with hills and trees you could pretend were mountains and forests.

What do you do when your big neighbor widens the gap that exists between its culture, which is European, and its political system, which is becoming increasingly Asian, at least in the bad old sense of Oriental despotism ?

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As a result, one in three adult women are living in or on the edge of poverty, with the picture especially bleak for single mothers, almost two thirds of whom are working in dead end, poorly compensated jobs without flexibility or benefits.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.