Young s bleak picture bears an eerie resemblance to today s world.

The picture for Europe, however, is not as bleak as pessimists assume.

Despite this bleak picture, Prime Minister George Papandreou s Socialist government still enjoys support.

Even so, the picture for Europe is not as bleak as pessimists assume.

This somewhat bleak picture could change, though probably not in the short run.

Yet this bleak picture is neither an excuse for apathy nor grounds for pessimism.

On the other hand, in half of the developing world the picture remains bleak.

This somewhat bleak picture is moreover replicated in our own experience at the regional and national levels.

The report painted a bleak picture of the snowballing problems in tertiary education, warning, inter alia, that

But is the picture really so bleak as those who despair of an emerging Eurabia would have us believe?

While the overall picture may still be bleak, several African countries have made encouraging progress in industrialization in recent years.

So it sounds like I'm painting a really bleak picture of this place, but I promise there is good news.

The Millennium Project report Investing in Development, issued in January 2005, painted a bleak picture of the highly indebted poor countries.

Here, we agree with the Secretary General's analysis, especially when he sketches the bleak and alarming picture that is Côte d'Ivoire today.

As if that did not make the picture bleak enough, it is further darkened by the ravages of AIDS among drug addicts.

In the Middle East, the end of the cold war has fundamentally altered the bleak picture and opened new horizons for peace.

Outlook is bleak.

It's pretty bleak.

Your article paints a picture of the Arab society that matches the images of the article black, bleak, depressing, a painted black body.

The status is bleak.

In terms of per capita income, the picture is bleak, with the Palestinian people's welfare falling by more than one third between 1999 and 2004.

A bleak future awaits us.

This year will be bleak.

It all looks pretty bleak.

Other social indicators offer a bleak picture. Indeed, most developing countries are likely to fall short of the international community's target of halving poverty by 2015.

Of course, there is some truth in this characterization of America (and quite a lot in that of Bush), but the picture is not uniformly bleak.

Bolivia s future is not inexorably bleak.

This'll make the place less bleak.

Despite that bleak picture, his Government welcomed the renunciation of the nuclear option by over 180 countries, with the vast majority of non nuclear States having fulfilled their obligations.

And it's a bleak future for them.

With HIV AIDS adding to this bleak picture (5 per cent of the population is infected), it is not surprising that Haiti lives in a climate of recurrent social unrest.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

Prospects for America s consumption binge continuing are also bleak.

Of course, not everything in Africa has been bleak.

Although unemployment rates reflect the bleak picture, employment figures reveal the resilience of the economy and the social cohesiveness of the Palestinian people that prevented a complete collapse in the face of devastating conditions.

No desert island castaway ever faced so bleak a prospect.

It had been a bleak ordeal, like a harsh winter.

Yet, the exceptions are few and bleak experience is dominant.11

This is Bleak House by Dickens. Every column is a chapter.

Mr. Egeland earlier made an interesting presentation on most of the aforementioned issues and gave us a bleak picture of the serious problems that humanitarian workers and other vulnerable groups are facing today in conflict situations.

But now, as then, Britain s future is bleak and overshadowed by debt.

Russia s record is equally bleak on other items on the summit s agenda.

ISIS seized control of his town, Mahkmour, and the future looked bleak.

I mean, picture this really picture this.

Hey, look at this picture. This picture.