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Job prospects were grim though, and she said she'd take anything, even "working for a family" (a euphemism for domestic service).

The grim figure leaves no doubt that serious pain awaits in the form of increased poverty and unemployment.

As the NBA draft approached, the grim truth about Yao Ming's(notes) broken left foot hung like an anvil over the Houston Rockets.

All come determined to be happy, with the kind of grim resolve with which one determines not to make a fuss at the dentist's .

In the face of this grim picture, you might have expected policy makers to realize that they haven't yet done enough to promote recovery.

Even with ideal circumstances, the possibility would be grim that she could lose this amount of weight in such a short period.

So I stood and stared, and felt a sort of grim satisfaction in the sense of my own loneliness.

Part of the experiment is to determine how much grim information people actually want to know about their own bodies.

was to abduct Mary and take her to his grim castle in Dunbar.

Most of the building was old and was covered in dark green ivy, but some of it had been built more recently and was of grim, black stone.

The fear was that if these were to unwind rapidly, with confidence evaporating in the US economy and the dollar, the outcome would be grim.

Finally, not to put too grim reflection on it, but life is uncertain. We do not know what tomorrow will bring.

Well, at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow.

This was no grim duty to which I stoically resigned, however.

It is also easy to see how further inaction, half-steps, and wrong steps by leaders could make these and other grim turns much more likely.

Because of his association with the underworld, Hades is often thought of as a grim figure.

Round and round here went the enormous revolutions of the dark colossal water- wheel , grim with its one immutable purpose .

But until the total reaches some grim round number, the stories recede from the front page and the top of the evening newscast.

The reality of life is always so grim, Laksa sleep eat and drink, fuel, which do not want you to worry about the same?

Imagine, though, how grim things would have been if yesterday's announcement had instead been a presidential no-show.

As for next year's trend of exports, not to be grim To open up emerging markets may be ripe to make up for shrinking market impact.

Faced with such a grim panorama, this week Mrs Clinton returned to Mexico City, accompanied by the entire American national-security team.

She collected at least six lightsabers from her fallen foes as grim trophies, and brandished her own scarlet-bladed Jedi weapon.

Set against the grim mood of a year ago, all this is generally encouraging.

She looked at me with a grim smile.

Many analysts seem to believe that this is the case and point to investors' composure in the face of latest grim statistics.

And with those at the top having such a grim time, it is unrealistic to expect any excitement at the bottom.

I returned to the White House from a fund-raiser at about 11 p. m. and went to Leon's office to hear the grim message.

With 1. 3 billion people like this, able to grind out the toughest and most grim situations, no wonder they will be the next super power.

This grim record makes it near-impossible for outsiders to take seriously Sudan's claims that it is trying to minimise the violence.

Kurt made his way to the twelve o'clock point, to Mendez, Mark, and Tom. Chief Mendez met him. The old man had never looked so grim.

The meeting was to include a discussion via video conference with McChrystal, whose grim assessment of the war was leaked last month.

Like many middle-class families, Cortney Munnaand her mother began the college selection process with a grim determination.

In recent years, the employment situation is grim have been a major problem what China's economic and social development is facing.

The job situation in China is grim, so effective measures must be taken to help new graduates, migrant workers or other groups, he said.

The tips are just as grim for widows, who must spend their remaining years faithful to 'his body, his memory and his children'.

I wish them a chance to savor each segment of their education as an experience in itself and not as a grim preparation for the next step.

Whenever you fail to ask this question, you can bet there's a more important project being stalked by the Grim Reaper.

As they leave the courthouse, a lawyer turns to his grim-looking client and says, "Janez, what's wrong? You were acquitted. "

That's when Kevin strides into view with a 20-pound bag of mulch over one shoulder, his mouth set in a grim line of manly purpose.

as long as you are grim enough and speechless enough as well as indifferent enough to everything.

The result is not just a grim image of China, but a stinging work of cultural self-criticism.

Sara offers him a grim warning. "Michael, this charm act could be exactly what's getting you into trouble out in the yard. "

For most on the high street, it has been a grim few months, and Leeds is no exception.

As the latest inheritors of a grim tradition, we should at least have the integrity to look into the mirror without evasion.

In his flying suit, the everlasting cigarette dangling from his compressed mouth, he looked weary and grim.

'Why, this mare. I fancy she looked round at me in a very grim way 'just then. Didn't you notice it? '

Her grim account of Jackson's final months is detailed in an interview with Barak, published in the Sunday Times and the News of the World.

If a reporter had met her at any of those points, he would have come away with a grim story.

It also made him smile, in a grim way, to see how fate was raining difficulties on him.

It has been a grim month for Mr Singh, who has been politically hurt by personal attacks on his uncharismatic style of leadership.

Kevin Stricklin, an administrator for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, said the situation looked grim.

After a bright start it was, as I wrote at the time, "unremittingly grim" .

Such a trend would be grim news for the US, but its financial policymakers have only themselves to blame.

Its pale rays fled out on either hand; beautiful but grim was the vision they disclosed.

GRIM expression in a yearbook photo or family snapshot could mean more than just a passing bad mood.

I grew up in the 1940s. Life was grim. My dad was a sharecropper. There had been tough times on the farm. World War II was going on.

It then saw a look of grim look of the mine officials to leave the community center.

Whenever a man in the platoon or company had been killed he would feel a grim and quiet satisfaction.

The grim harvest of these cuts was an increase in preventable diseases.

Probably on the day his brother got caught by an IED. The grim reality of these forever wars hit him.

The judge's expression was grim when he told them they were to be shot.

While he sensibly opted to remain in the warmth and comfort of the clubhouse, we set out with grim determination.

Much of the world does not share this grim view, or at least seems reluctant to do much about the killing of 46 South Korean sailors.

At present, Tunisia still faces unrest continues to spread social unrest continued to intensify in the grim situation.

It's a grim reality, and one that Google hinted at a few weeks ago at the end of a blog post about the anti-Android suits.

But numbers are grim across the retail sector, and for now, it seems like consumers with money to spend are drawn to a little color.

Since 1999, the S& P 500 has been a loser, and the next 10 years could be just as grim.

Democrats stood frequently to applaud what was a strongly partisan speech while, for the most part, Republicans sat in grim silence.

For all the narrative skill with which the author retells this grim tale, the book contains some frustrating dead ends.

In the present context of renminbi continued to appreciate, textile and clothing situation facing grim challenges.

More troops, their uniforms protected by transparent plastic coats, squatted at the foot of the slope waiting for the next grim delivery.

They were faithful in their work and worship, but these had ceased to be motivated by love and had become wearisome habits and grim duties.

In one sense, the news is clearly grim: Existing commitments don't add up to a solution.

Somebody said to me, in light of those numbers, wow, so you aer really beating the Grim Reaper.

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I hate my boss , " a grim-faced office worker mutters. " He never shows appreciation for anything .

The dead, shaven head, stained with blood and grim ed with dust, was trailed along the ground, rolling from side to side on the long neck.

I trudged off to Calculus with a grim expression. This was the class where I sat next to Jessica.

By the time he settled on economics, the once dismal science had become, if not exactly gay, then no longer grim, hopeless or resigned.

The events of any isolated year can be made to seem exceptionally grim, but one has to peer hard to find elevating moments in 1980.

The robber was frozen to see a grim man, bearing a scar of several inches long on his face.

That does not alter the fact that it looks like a grim election for Democrats.

Ministry of Education evaluation of the employment of college students is "the form of grim, is not optimistic. "

Battleships leaving the Pacific harbor with men and materiel were a grim reminder that the war with Japan was still raging.

Lewis seized a coffee cup, raised it to his lean, grim face and gulped, then wiped his lips with a linen napkin.

The grim fact that he had to grope in the dark made the greedy grocer moan and groan.

As the pod settled down on the marshy surface of the shrouded bog planet, its hatch opened and Yoda surveyed the grim surroundings.

It may take such a grim scenario to support Treasuries, given their lofty prices and super-low yields.

His grim face was framed by elaborate tattoos, and his sharpened teeth were revealed with the parting of his slit lips.

Last time i used them the hotel was pretty grim for no less money, but this one was lovely and i would definately use it again.

This year has been a vintage one for news, most of it grim.

But it will not look too grim if, as many believe, this turns out to be the low point.

Darth Vader's grim black attire was a life-support system, his labored mechanical breathing the sound of a walking iron lung.

This deluge of information about the war ensures the grim reality of the conflict is seared into the public consciousness.

The grim situation of the world socialist movement and Greek communist party was the direct reason of its produce.

It was a somber homecoming, for after the merchant gave Beauty the rose, he told the story of the grim Beast and his cruel punishment.

Maybe because their youth grim period of life, he honed in his research work even if meet the big problems never have to give up the idea.

This is a sad but unforgettable, with the increasingly grim streamer, only waiting for him to come to the next dilution.

The thought of it caused a grim smile to appear and joy to his heart.

The economy shrank by a grim 18. 7% year-on-year, but the worst seems to be over and some industries are picking up.

The scene was grim, and to make matters worse, the aftershocks did not let up.

However grim the backdrop and dangerous the journey, all of these fine works show that the human spirit remains indomitable.

Audley Court is shut up, and a grim old housekeeper reigns paramount in the mansion which my lady's ringing laughter once made musical.

If I were you I'd not only leave him at home, but I'd leave any triumph behind in the grim hotel ballroom.

But that grim scenario failed to materialise and a measure of calm has re-turned to the capital markets.

If it allows slow growth, let alone an outright recession, to grip the eurozone, the chances for big peripheral members are grim.

To avoid too much mental grim, stay up all night, smoking, high fat diet, can prevent the occurrence or expansion of a partial alopecia.

Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza, said the construction of such walls "paint a grim picture" for the people in Gaza.

The report also warns of a grim future in the aftermath of a potential European recession if the Eurozone debt crisis is not resolved.

The queen, on a velvet chair, perched among the rags for a grim, blue-chinned portrait.

Conway added that asset prices did not reflect grim economic realities globally, according to the paper.

He just took the wheel of our station wagon, his mouth a grim line as we set off on the 150-mile drive back to Duluth.

Death is no doubt a grim experience.

One British press reviewer remarked that the film was a 'one-note' film with no variation on its grim storytelling.

After nearly three years, I began to dread opening case files and reading the grim details.

"It really represents a grim, crippling picture, " he said.

The weather was bitterly cold and I took a grim satisfaction in how the bleakness mirrored my mood.

The only losers will be those companies that sit still and suffer grim outcomes at the hands of smaller companies that embrace the cloud.

Indeed, the outlook for Russia's sex toy industry does not necessarily appear to be as grim as some vendors described.

The little girl was frightened into crying by his grim smile .

Heart care for life, nothing to the final result can only be a mediocrity, grim.

Window above the fence is made of iron, the middle set with a face of grim skull indicate it is from a ghost house.

The grim daily life under Ceausescu's oppressive regime and the harsh treatment of Romanian Germans has featured strongly in her works.

During the revolution's grim first decade, thousands of dissidents were summarily shot in its yards.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), set up by Mr Osborne to provide independent economic projections, laid out the grim numbers.

With China's economic development and industrial structural adjustment, the employment situation is still very grim.

The grim expression, a bit less necessary to greet and smile, but cool ruthless.

The grim findings come in a report by Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank, and Oliver Wyman, the financial services consultancy.

Christmas was a rather grim affair for us this year. I'll edit it as tight as I can so that anything of general interest can be read.

Her being there at all had the character of ugly evidence, of hand writings, of profaned relics, of grim things produced in court.

It was a grim life, grimmer still because it was the only choice open to many.

Steelworkers and [font=Arial]coalminers have to face grim economic reality and see their companies liquidated; bankers, it seems, do not.

The figure is likely to be grim, showing an economy that grew barely, if at all.

By clinging like grim death to the boat, Tom managed to keep inside it.

For D H Lawrence the town was an "inland island, still curiously isolated and grim" .

Copper driven by economic optimism in the U. S. , which offset grim manufacturing and industrial production data - Zeman.

At times, this period saw pretty grim macroeconomic trends, while the Internet continued to boom in the trenches.

You premier do not, good younger sibling, you tell me that that sword is what is the row, also grim!

But many states face another grim outcome: years of low growth caused by uncompetitive exchange rates and sluggish productivity.

Norton is riveted to the door. For every key, he loads another bullet. Methodical and grim.

And the numbers for Greece are grim: even if one assumes three years of austerity, the country's debt burden will have risen to 140% of GDP.

The most recent Chinese economic data seem to paint a grim picture for oil.

On other fronts the news is similarly grim, although perhaps not out of bounds of market expectations.

At the time I thought that was a pretty grim remark, but I know now that Mr. Carlyle was right.

Steelworkers and coalminers have to face grim economic reality and see their companies liquidated; bankers, it seems, do not.

Coal geological exploration in Jiangxi is being faced with a grim situation: coal reserves are seriously insufficient.

A foretaste of the ethnic cleansing that was to become the grim hallmark of the war.

When he returned to the table, he lowered his eyes, put on a grim expression and said, "I have some bad news. My grandfather just died. "

His latest book in this project is "War Trash" , a bold, grim, powerful novel set in an American-run POW camp during the Korean War.

Finally, a few days before Easter, a grim-faced doctor met with Dorothy.

That's one step forward for the endangered species at a time when the news has been relentlessly grim.

Thai soldiers learn about AIDS by grim example as they view a victim's body at a hospice run by a Buddhist monastery.

"The outlook for the second half of the fiscal year appears grim, " the company said.

electoral system for parliamentary elections, the last batch of opinion polls make very grim reading for the Yes camp.

The awful truth was not presented to the public, who was only told by grim faced Congress people that they had no choice.

However, faced with an increasingly grim situation of terror, India is lagging behind counter - terrorism measures.

His doctors determined the cause was a malignant glioma, a brain tumor that carries a grim prognosis.

This grim outlook was underscored on February 11th by the Bank of England.

The company's stock fell more than 4 percent on Wednesday after analyst downgrades and grim forecast by PC rival Dell (DELL).

grim I admire him for his grim courage.

grim trajectory suggests an economic , as well as a political , rationale for government action .

Not all the economic news was as grim Monday.

There he met Kim Jong Il, the grim-faced leader of the world's most repressive regime and a defiant nuclear bomb-tester to boot.

"The net number is grim, " said Ian Shepherdson, economist at High Frequency Economics, adding there was "worse to come" .

There is no need to be grim when you sitting on your mat. You can try a little smile!

Beyond that, a grim housing outlook and high unemployment cast doubt on the viability of any consumer-led expansion.

He made grim jokes about death and ghosts.

The grim situation of gradual deterioration of the environment restricts socioeconomic development severely.

But death can be delayed only so long, and sometimes the wait is grim and degrading.

It will be fascinating to see how "ethical" shopping copes with these grim times.

Carry out western big development is right for irrigation works since an auspicious good luck, also be grim challenge.

Living to be 100 was easy . Thirty years ago I took out a restraining order against the Grim Reaper !

The catharsis of seeing Mr Mubarak forced to account for this grim past is the least the victims deserve.

Iacocca's message was that the picture was grim yet hopeful and terribly important because we would all be affected.

Death threats and menacing messages are a grim part of everyday life in rural Colombia.

Grim climate predictions and recent food-price inflation have led to growing fears for food security, adding to the pressure.

The second one is the grim ed, and a genuine reason is for your own sake.

Shanxi province is located at the edge of desertification extension. The desertification is grim in the region of the northwest Shanxi.

a grim 9 p. m. news conference to announce the toll of one of the worst days in the police department's history.

To a roomful of grim-faced officials, he declared that China must "resolutely resist" vulgar, cheap and kitsch forms of culture.

The lack of a unified government response suggests this grim trajectory will continue.

The news from here in the heart of China's earthquake zone remains heartbreakingly grim.

"The current situation is grim, and the impact (of the crisis) is still unfolding, " Yin said.

Facing to the grim reality that people have been animalized today, humanity needs delighting and reason needs awaking newly.

Banks aren't lending, consumers aren't spending and the prospects for the rest of the year seem grim.

Last week, a friend rang me to complain that she was feeling grim and demotivated.

As Mr. Orszag has emphasized, rising health care costs are the main reason long-run budget projections look so grim.

Overall, therefore, the prevention and treatment of schistosomiasis in Hunan situation is quite grim.

And while it was not official policy to discourage visitors, the grim Ashmolean certainly intimidated them.

Seen in all its grim realities, old Tibet confirms the view I expressed in an earlier book, namely that culture is anything but neutral.

Maybe that annoys Washington, but for China, the implications of a destabilised North Korea are grim.

Fears about protectionism have added to the view that the outlook for the financial system is grim for the foreseeable future.

Other entries included a somewhat grim-looking brown bear and a blue dolphin on bright yellow skies.

The Yancey they knew as pale and generally grim now had rosy cheeks and a smile on his face.

So the prospects are grim enough, but a continuing credit drought would make this much worse.

Shewore grim dark suits that did not flatter her petite frame, and her hair was acareless mop of black curls.

" A grim mood has gripped the country , " the opponent had concluded , barely concealing his own broad grin .

JAPAN'S economy is showing signs of recovery but, in the long term, its prospects still look grim.

But economic data has started to conform a bit to the grim views of bond bulls like Mr. Edwards.

A lousy debt deal, rising fears of a recession, the danger of longer-term stagnation: America's outlook is grim.

He tried the patches and the gum with no success, and stopped smoking at last only when his medical prognosis got too grim to ignore.

It takes a little courage, And a little self-control, And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal!

If corrosion or rotation is not flexible, should bear the amount of oil, the grim chain should be replaced.

Some students participate with joy or grim determination, stalking and killing their friends and hoarding the best weapons.

Currently the global economy is weakening, especially the grim situation of our nation's foreign trade industries.

As the grim stories accumulated, Miss Chang lost weight and broke down. She went on, defying exhaustion.

But Jia Yinsong, a senior official at the Industry Ministry, said at the conference that demand and foreign trade were 'still grim. '

Humanoid robots would be ideal for such tasks; they could help the operators feel less viscerally attached to the grim work at hand.

'' Susie's story, paradoxically, is one of hope, set against grim reality.

Despite the grim news for jobs, economists are seeing more signs of a recovery in the broader economy this year.

I urge families to talk together and not to allow anxiety to get the upper hand, even though the outlook is grim for many.

A grim twist in the market's road to health has heightened investors' sense of doom and gloom.

At the end of a grim and brutal month, Rosie learned to read.

Lincoln grim expression, apparently consider " slave address the" historical significance.

L, who speaks to her relatives in the North regularly, provides a grim insight into the daily struggle to find food.

I'd read of an Africa trapped in a monotony of war, famine, genocide and death. And the grim stories were there.

He painted a grim picture - forecasting more job cuts, slower growth and the increasing risk of a recession.

The encouraging news about manufacturing was accompanied by a grim diagnosis for the overall economy.

Clumsy. He picks bullets off his lap, loading them into the gun, one by one, methodical and grim. Six in the chamber.

Although death is the central theme of Halloween, celebrants deal with the grim reaper only on a playful level.

To carry out their grim census, Wade and colleagues used two standard method for measuring whale populations.

As the melting ice allows access to the Arctic, Russia will become richer still in fossil fuels. For many, though, the prospects are grim.

Polution deteriorates the air, while acid rain and the massive death of the fish in rivers create grim effect.

Ancient medical practitioners sometimes cut tumors out, but the prognosis was known to be grim.

In particular, domestic and foreign terrorists has been destroyed as a key objective will be pipelines, pipeline security situation is grim.

to a grim period marked by violent anti-government protests in Greece, Latvia, Bulgaria and Lithuania.

I don't know about you, but I find it appropriate that someone called Dr Grim is saying that drinking beer will make you a bad scientist.

China's health minister says the nation is facing a grim situation as it tries to contain a rapid surge in swine flu.

In his mind he was being dragged toward a grim unknown.

Unprepared for the doctor's grim prognosis, I heard his words fall heavily on my ears, numbing my soul.

Pethokoukis also spelled out the grim financial costs of a potential reunification.

The impact of international financial crisis, the regulatory region of enterprise order decreases quickly, the grim situation.

Facing the grim situation, construction industry must fundamentally change the way of achieving development.

The name of Jedi Master Di was deliberately chosen to foreshadow his grim fate.

Therefore, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases has become the grim task of society as a whole.

Even that proviso looked threadbare when grim-faced Italian police, backed by bulldozers, swept through shanty towns full of Romanians.

I join young white families staring in silence at the chains and shackles, and photographs of grim-faced Aborigines manacled together.

Mr Obama's many tax and spending pledges can scarcely be reconciled with the grim reality of the burgeoning budget deficit.

Faced with grim choices, European voters will realise deeper unity is the only way to go.

Of course, grim economic news is nothing new to Flint.

Such disputes allow Beijing to stoke nationalism at home, but for Chinese naval strategists, this seascape is mostly grim.

The issue of the accounting credibility stems from the grim reality of severe lack of accounting credibility.

The grim milestone demonstrates that, even though the recession is apparently over, for the average worker it remains in force.

Although the economic outlook for America is grim, most analysts assume that emerging markets will continue to grow relatively strongly.

Effective countermeasures must be taken to reverse the current grim situation.

One child for one couple is a necessary choice made under China's special historical conditions to alleviate the grim population situation.

Indications said unemployment continues to rise is grim news for leaders heading to the G-20 summit in the United States next week.

Indications that unemployment continues to rise is grim news for leaders heading to the G-20 summit in the United States next week.

For the Tories, whatever their hopes in the short term in Wales and Scotland, the longer-term outlook may be grim.