Prospects for America s consumption binge continuing are also bleak.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects.

At the present time, however, the prospects for such support appear rather bleak.

Medium term growth prospects for the American and European economies range from moderate to bleak.

So the prospects for most developing countries including those that had done everything right are bleak.

If the Bolivians do not get fair value for their country s natural wealth, their prospects are bleak.

Yet prospects for improvements in living conditions in much of Africa in the short run remain bleak.

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

Sub Saharan Africa s demographic prospects look particularly bleak, as mushrooming populations of young people move into labor markets that cannot accommodate them.

Excluded and facing bleak life prospects, young people, in particular, often experience anomie and may turn to anti social behavior, including violence.

In some countries, substantial peace initiatives undertaken in 2003 had aroused hope for a solution, but in other countries prospects were bleak.

Outlook is bleak.

It's pretty bleak.

The status is bleak.

With Iraq rapidly descending into bloody chaos, the prospects for holding successful democratic elections in January, as the US and the Iraqi interim government have promised, look bleak.

A bleak future awaits us.

This year will be bleak.

It all looks pretty bleak.

To me, attempting to discern the economic prospects for 2011 is not a particularly interesting question the answer is bleak, with little upside potential and a lot of downside risk.

Bolivia s future is not inexorably bleak.

This'll make the place less bleak.

Prospects for self sufficiency in Egypt through local employment look rather bleak in view of the general economic situation, which implies the continued provision of subsistence allowances for those most in need.

And it's a bleak future for them.

The emergence of such an identity depends on politicians ability to communicate to their fellow citizens the Union s real advantages and the bleak prospects of nation states that try to go it alone.

If the plebiscite victory emboldens him and his allies to step up their tactics of judicial dirty tricks and media manipulation used to great effect in recent years the prospects for Turkey are bleak.

Jobs are scarce, and the future looks bleak everywhere.

Of course, not everything in Africa has been bleak.

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

No desert island castaway ever faced so bleak a prospect.

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

Prospects zero.

With Sonia Gandhi in ill health, Rahul unable to connect to the electorate even in his historically safe constituency, and the Nehru Gandhi brand name having lost its appeal, the prospects for the Congress in 2014 look bleak.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects. Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities.

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

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

Russia s European Prospects

I have prospects.

Any present prospects?

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

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

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.

Difficulties, suggestions and prospects

Difficulties, suggestions and prospects

Prospects for international cooperation