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He said: "The outlook remains bleak . . . There are no signs of an early economic recovery. "

But to hear such gorgeous music in such a bleak environment did seem somewhat out of place.

The autumn leaves are always in the wind scattered bleak, Yela wind to stop, the sky is still the same as washed bright.

It was wonderful to have them here just a year after my father was diagnosed with bladder cancer and things looked bleak.

You can only go home with your lonely figure to have instant noodle at seven thirty. Why Friday moonlight is always so bleak?

Bare Theism would be to me a bleak creed and one subject to a standing limitation the insoluble problem of evil.

They stood upon a bleak and desert moor, whose monstrous masses of stone were cost about, as though it were the burial-place of giants.

Do not worry, wait, I have what looks bleak, he always said: the sun will come out, it will come as usual!

IN THE AUTUMN of 1813, Nikolay married Princess Marya, and with his wife, and mother, and Sonya, took up his abode at Bleak Hills.

There was a bleak air about him as he looked at the small customer who flattened her ungloved hands on the counter.

"Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands, " he said in a statement.

Bleak days of happiness is no longer faith, family, and became a real material needs of the heart with a happy smile.

Raining in my wandering, the wind gently Jing me on the cheek, at the moment I seem a somewhat bleak.

But he was not prepared for the devastating enemy that met him in Moscow ---- the raw, bitter, bleak Russian winter.

The autumn wind bleak, across the bottom of my heart that faint sadness, darkness back, a look around the vast.

He gave reporters free access to meetings in which the bleak progress of the drive against the Taliban was bluntly discussed.

I am not cruel to let go, just don't want to see the bleak after ending, you will be able to be happy, you deserve better. . .

In the bleak light of dawn she was preparing to leave her hometown for an unknown place.

However, legal experts said the prospects for the German company and its employees looked bleak.

In the winter Prince Andrey had come to Bleak Hills, had been gay, gentle, and affectionate, as Princess Marya had not seen him for years.

The book's tone is by no means as bleak as you might suppose (or maybe as it should be): Mr Clark writes with disarming wit.

Gone with the vicissitudes of the years is still bleak, but I was in the long years changed its appearance.

He was extremely warm with him both days of his stay at Bleak Hills, and asked him to come and stay with him again.

As if all of the above weren't bleak enough, on top of that we have the very real possibility that the dollar will crash.

If things are really bleak, reduce the number of hours everyone works by closing the office one day a week.

This decision cheered her a little, for though she knew the future was bleak, at least for the time being she could hold up her head.

It describes the fire smoldering in the hearth, mysteriously seeming to suck every bit of warmth out of the bleak, dank room.

The rise seems to show that people who dropped out of the labour market when prospects looked bleak are now willing to rejoin it.

Jack: You know, for having such a bleak outlook on pirates, you're well on your way to becoming one.

Life is like the stars in the sky: sometimes Starryland bleak, sometimes high spirits. Life sometimes is like a journey.

"Despite potential tax cuts and stimulus measures in major overseas markets, the outlook for global consumption remains bleak, " she said.

Upon review of my medical files, it would be reasonable to suspect that I will be an HIV-Negative "AIDS" patient with a bleak future.

In 2008, with the outlook for the U. S. economy bleak, China made a major switch in purchases toward the short end of the curve.

"Despite potential tax cuts and stimulus measures in key overseas markets, the outlook for global consumption remains bleak, " she said.

China then, like the Soviet Union, was a bleak place with little other intellectual stimulation. People yearned for provocative ideas.

There seems to be a bleak outlook for the unemployed.

Nearly a year later, despite billions of dollars in international aid pouring into the country, the prospects for most Haitians look bleak.

God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges venturing into a bleak. . .

Spring Festival to Taipei to see rain, although a bit bleak, but there us deep thinking.

While domestic wool products market is a bleak, Enterprise, and wool products lower profits this year, some even in a State of loss started.

With more Chinese investors like this, Europe's outlook might not be so bleak after all.

Rudolf was rounding a bleak, dangerous cape, and his map told him that the nearest harbor was half a day's journey away.

Came out in the early '70s to a very bleak job market.

It was only now on his visit to Bleak Hills that Pierre appreciated fully all the charm of his friendship with Prince Andrey.

Yet the Japanese, led by an inspired general, dug themselves in on Iwo Jima, a bleak, volcanic island far from Tokyo.

Even in midsummer, the sun is only hanging in the far south of the horizon, issued a bleak white.

There were times when you knew no different and life seemed to be utterly bleak without any real chance of it changing.

Thanks to the bleak weather, we have arrived before dawn and launched tne attack from the enemy's rear, which reversed the tide.

Oh, but if it would stop here, it would be a miserable and bleak picture.

At lunchtime the next day, as employees prepared for the holidays, Bear Stearns received bleak news.

" And the opening line is a tickler: " It was as bleak and sad a day as one could well imagine.

The parting usually saddens the ones in love since olden day, Yet in this bleak autumn, the grief is even more than I can say!

The industrial side of the ledger looks bleak, but as important as it is, it is only one piece of a disturbing picture.

For the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, the outlook for acquiring a proper state looks as bleak as ever, at least in the short run.

Judging by this remorselessly bleak account of Iraq's moral collapse, one cannot but feel squeamish about Iraq's future, under any regime.

CPPCC members noted with satisfaction that China is in a strong position to avoid the bleak conditions in some countries.

Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin said the new research painted too bleak a picture.

Along with its bleak desert conditions, Sudan is one of the worst places on the planet.

Orozco, known for his ability to stay calm whether things look brilliant or bleak, valiantly tried to hold back tears afterward.

Autumn came in silently, with her ice-temperament, some bleak, some withered and yellow, as well as bright and clear look.

China then, like the Soviet Union, was a bleak place with little other intellectual stimulation.

However, difficulties and challenges do not mean a bleak or uncertain future. Enhanced strength does not mean unpredictability or a threat.

Yet Mr Netanyahu's bleak vision may not be winning as many Israeli minds as he would like.

Yet with the US mainland now in recession as well, the prospects for a turnaround in Puerto Rico any time soon are bleak.

Apple Inc and Amazon. com were among the top traffic gainers in an overall bleak period, comScore said.

It's lit by a bleak kerosene lamp; they do not remember the last time they saw electricity.

Mrs Pardiggle is one of the more loathsome characters in Charles Dickens' Bleak House, the tragic story of a contested will.

Many Afghans too are disinclined to see anything but a bleak future.

This, then, is the final shock: consumer confidence is at all-time lows, and prospects for private consumption look bleak.

It's such a visually striking image, capturing this otherwise bleak scene with astonishing clarity and saturated colors.

Molecular studies paint a potentially bleak picture, but researchers warn that the effects and causes of these differences are unknown.

In a bleak article published in The National Interest last fall, the Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman took a more systemic view.

No marital scenario, I told myself, could become so bleak or hopeless as to compel me to embed my children in the torture of a split family.

Yes, but even in such a bleak landscape, the heartening, warming sun-yellow of the forsythia, broom and daffodils lived on.

Few analysts expect Gillard to lead Labor into the next election, if the opinion polls continue to look so bleak.

Despite his evident anguish at the current state of affairs, Mr Osman's prognosis for the imminent post-Mubarak era is not entirely bleak.

The trick now is to make statehood look real enough to Palestinians for the majority to abandon Hamas's bleak vision of war to the end.

The road was pretty bleak, for we were traversing a sort of high windswept plateau.

The sky still as blue, just a many bleak.

His bizarre behavior and bitter remarks mean a pessimistic mentality and a bleak future. For this, he himself is to blame.

The main question is if bargain prices at the malls will be enough to rescue retailers from a bleak holiday shopping season.

situation depicted by the author at the beginning of the passage is rather bleak.

But with no signs of any precipitation, the prospect of the harvest looks bleak.

An uncompromising, often bleak novel, Grits is certainly a difficult book, but the dedication of any reader will be rewarded.

So far in the off-site for you only hear the song again when there is still so bleak and sad?

In testimony to a Senate committee, Mr. Bernanke painted a bleak picture of the U. S. economy.

But for Commerzbank, which already has the German government as a minority shareholder, the outlook is particularly bleak.

For the many individual General Motors Corp. shareholders wondering what their stock is still worth, the answer looks pretty bleak.

Stone bench look like tombstone. Seem bleak and corrode. There are a pair of eyes in grey woods. Emit evil laugh from there.

NBC isshavingsa very bad financial year, and I'm afraid the outlook for next year is just as bleak.

Comprehend this bleak of loess's colour, especially on the bank of Kashgar jade-river .

Jack looked up, eyes bleak. "A prisoner named Dante Arete, and a piece of plastic. . . "

The chief executive said that the company was faced with a bleak future.

Chang'e finally landed on the deserted and bleak Moon Palace. There was only a tall full-blown osmanthus tree sending out fragrance.

Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden.

For many managers, "team building" means two days spent doing role-playing exercises in a bleak conference hotel far from head office.

But the military's purported gains in the southern war zone do not align with the bleak picture painted by most sources on the ground.

The Fed's report, meanwhile, continued to paint a bleak picture of housing.

White, gray, and bleak, hazy ambiguity can not be refined, and seems to close quarters deemed to be Wandering away.

You know, this is not beautiful moonlight bleak and desolate, beautiful, but the full with love!

The future is not as golden as it used to be, but it's not bleak either.

His formative years were the long bleak decades of Poland's communist era, first in Warsaw and then in provincial Gdansk.

But there was a long time yet to the summer-time. Clouds hid the sun, and bleak winds were blowing.

Back in May and June there was a lot of talk about the bleak outlook for the euro zone.

A paradigm which has delivered both inefficiency and inequality in the name of 'bleak realism' needs reassessment.

But Avon cut its forecast through the rest of the year and offered a bleak outlook for its North American business.

There are likely to be occasions when the prospects appear bleak, and giving up seems the only option.

This is no victory in the next day should Jisong some of the bleak facts.

AMERICA'S presidential candidates are in for a bleak Christmas, shuttling between Des Moines, Iowa, and Manchester, New Hampshire.

If your division's profit outlook is bleak, so may be your future with the company.

Well, to talk about proper business, and I also hit a test examination, the examination is very important, so my future is bleak.

When Jesus tells them clearly that the future is bleak and that suffering and death waits them, they do not turn tail.

Separate surveys of manufacturing activity around the world released on Friday, the first business day of the new year, were also bleak.

But some Switzerland-based chocolate producers are confident that the industry's immediate future is far from bleak.

Clinton said, 'Things can start to look bleak, and then, all of the sudden, you're on an airplane with two hot Asian chicks.

It seems from these posters that the bleak, disturbing visions of comic books have shaped the radical culture of this generation.

and gleaming like a jovial eye upon the bleak waste out of doors!

Given the bleak economic backdrop, China's emergence as an election issue is no big surprise.

Also, Germany's trade surplus grew in October, but the outlook for exports remains bleak, due to a sharp decline in orders for German goods.

But innovations will allow us to avoid these bleak outcomes, improving lives in the U. S. and around the world.

Their tragical lives contain a sense of bleak history reality. Reading them make readers think deeply.

The series presents a bleak story: you are far more likely to be promoted in "The Wire" for toeing the line than for being good at your job.

The country's dismal February trade performance was the latest in a string of bleak economic figures.

Lost in that hazy time, all did not retain, thoughts become bleak.

Looking at the night, crescent hide, light is no longer, such as heart bleak, lost his mind.

Some people say that "good books is like a lamp, which illuminates the most distant, the most bleak road of life. "

It is the bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels impinging on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

The corresponding predictions of the B? ha, our living environment more sinister bleak hopelessness, less than the.

We do not want to paint a bleak picture of events occurring on Earth at present, but it is our duty to present it as it is.

Without those elements, and with economies souring by the day, the outlook is bleak indeed.

"Baby Face" painted a bleak picture of what was required to climb the corporate ladder.

Surely you are also desensitized to bleak market forecasts painting the American real estate landscape as a dry marketplace.

What does Dickens mean by "Telescopic Philanthropy" ? How does he use the idea in the part of Bleak House we've read so far?

Due to the managers strategic encouragement the bleak prospects failed to chill anyone.

It is bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels impinge on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

Japan is a conformist society, and life, it is said, is bleak for those who do not fit in.

I added the olives on a high-calorie whim at the last minute, and they crop up, bleak and oily surprises, among the noodles.

Mountains full of lush green trees, there is no plain, summer heat, winter cold, bleak autumn, some of spring's bright and brilliant.

I thought of the miles and miles of bleak country I had passed, and then hurried on to seek shelter of the wood in front.

Melinda and I see innovation as the factor that will make the difference between having a bleak future and a bright one.

The prospects for the London office market look especially bleak as financial firms cut back and new developments are finished.

See that a waiter on the left is ordering for the customer , a lady on the right is drinking a cup of icy bleak tea with the suction .

Although many youngsters can rely on family safety-nets, such bleak figures explain the explosion of anger among the Spanish "indignants" .

But in China , public hospitals are bleak places where strict visiting hours mean children might see their parents just once a week .

He is able to trust in this God for his future, even when the present circumstances make that future look terribly bleak.

Lee offered two reasons for why equities do well when the outlook is bleak: Consumers are both a lagging and a contrarian indicator.

Yet the immediate outlook for the economy is so bleak that there seems little merit in holding fire.

The bleak outlook for housing is forecast to continue at least through the first half of 2010.

During the next months, the warning will become a bleak reality.

Life without friendship is bleak, as the sun shines the earth lost, no glory.

If past experience points to a bleak outlook for jobs, so too does the sheer scale of this downturn.

The findings, however, were far from bleak for US manufacturing, said Mark Killion, IHS's head of world industry services.

Despite the bleak outlook in Ireland and Greece, many economists say a double-dip recession is unlikely in the euro zone as a whole.

Have blown up bleak autumn wind on water surface , have surged out in the water spray wave.

The frozen seas here are a harsh realm to explore, but they're anything but bleak, sustaining a variety of life above and below.

Economists interviewed by news organizations call the U. S. job market bleak and getting worse.

His obstinacy in the face of bleak odds has impressed, as has his tenacious hounding of the coalition government.

It has been a bleak start to Ramadan.

Despite the bleak data, not all economists foresee a protracted recession for the U. S.

With the bleak leaves we ushered in a lovely season again - winter, it has been quietly entering our life.

Whereas the conditions were bleak, I found the 13 months in Korea to have been an exceptional experience.

i leaned despairingly over the rail , watching the trim little schooner swiftly increasing the bleak sweep of ocean between us.

WINTER Cold and raw the north wind doth blow, Bleak in the morning early; All the hills are covered with snow, And winter's now come fairly.

However, the prospect is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser.

Film-maker Boyle, who won for best director and was previously best known for the frenetically bleak Trainspotting, is British.

Spreading a little joy in bleak economic times, as volunteers prepare hot meals for the homeless of Toronto, Canada.

As things were looking bleak, Luke Tweedy (Sax, Flute and Vocals) joined and the band rehearsed a while as a 3-piece.

She gave birth to son Lucas before the lavish wedding in St. Petersburg, and for an instant, her career looked bleak.

And I grew up first thing is to repay mother, don't let mother felt the dreariness and bleak autumn.

Yan had no information on the enemy, sober Canmeng send bleak.

On the way Stephanie told him about the village that stood fifteen hundred feet atop the bleak mound they were now climbing.

Labyrinthine cities are bleak and gloomy at their core, hiding conspiracies the mundane world does not dare suspect.

Known for its former bleak industrial zones and often rainy streets, Birmingham is not normally synonymous with show business.

s initial public offering is one bright spot in an otherwise bleak overseas portfolio.

David Card autumn of cicadas is so bleak and rapid manner. The face of Changting. It is the evening. A pelting rain had just stopped.

With the entry-deadline approaching, the competitive future of our heroes looks bleak, as does Roshi 's patience.

Despite the bleak job market for college graduates, aspiring interns have reason to be hopeful.

When things look bleak people often think, "This is going to go on forever. "

The reasons for this bleak situation are clear: mental health services are being starved of both human and financial resources.

From bankers to factory staff, employees in the West face the bleak prospect of losing their jobs as a global recession starts to bite.

In Hardy's world, life could be bleak yet still picturesque; in Lawrence's, madness could be chilling yet maintain a mysterious attraction.

In any case, two clear mistakes that condemn the EU to a bleak future would be avoided.

Luckily the view did not remain so bleak.

Set against this dismal present and a bleak future, buying a home is a willful act of optimism.

And if you make it on a bleak day, a freak day, a weekday, why you can be my guest.

In addition, the bleak outlook for most small businesses made my future seem even more uncertain had I decided to enter this field.

The true, bleak worldview of satire would have demanded the abortion of one character's fetus as a final sting and judgment.

The rating cut is expected to increase New Zealand's borrowing costs, although marginally as global yields fell on a bleak outlook.

bleak Despite hongkong's current economic crisis, the longer-term outlook was far from bleak.

Yet despite this bleak picture, Africa's health leaders are convinced that these obstacles can be overcome.

RARELY have the prospects for a decent deal between Israelis and Palestinians looked so bleak.

No wonder those who so recently thought they'd begun to reclaim their country are feeling bleak.

Although today's job market may be bleak, there are some bright spots if you know where to look.

Cool, Lake painting wound, the fact bleak, flower briefly as the broad-leaved epiphyllum.

So in the end that powerful ambition that had carried Lincoln through his bleak childhood had been realized.

The future could look bleak for human musicians as well. This android was laying down some licks with the Computer Robot Band.

The future of a firm will be very bleak indeed if it can't devise new products.

This bleak picture comes from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), which said the economic downturn is worsening.

Among the smallest privately owned firms, the mood is especially bleak.

In no uncertain terms he outlines a bleak immediate future, and gives advice to his startups.

As bleak as this state of affairs is, we have reason to be hopeful.

the bells were tied up and stuffed with paper . the prince allowed no one at bleak hills to drive with bells.

His later works contain A tale of two Cities, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times and Great Expectations.

I like the wind, like it to trace it to the feeling disappeared. Like the gentle wind, the wind of the bleak, wind moving the warm breeze.

So you are drawing quite a bleak picture, you've talked about the deflationary environment. Is there anything that's safe? Any assets?

Pete Dye led the profession out of a bleak period of bland courses following his trip to Scotland in the 1963.

Nairobi and Mumbai certainly have lots in common. Luckily , other places have fared better. The outlook is not all bleak.

The outlook is so bleak that some ad agencies have resorted to outlandish tactics to raise revenues (see article).

It's been a rather bleak black Friday.

Yet many people, thinking of the distant continent only as a bleak, rocky, cold and inhospitable land mass, may wonder: Why all the fuss?

Come on, go, don't look back, just let a bleak sadness, in a lonely time, tears don't remember, but hard to resist.

But why should it suddenly matter so much now, in this bleak corner of the country?

Drake's exceptional guitar-playing talents were still intact, but the stark songs they decorated were bleak, unsettling.

"I know of this Dorne, " said Reznak mo Reznak. "Dorne is sand and scorpions, and bleak red mountains baking in the sun. "

He orchestrated directly to the performance of the symphonic works of Finland's landscape, with the cold weather -- dark, bleak and Cukuang.

In contrast to bleak conditions in Western book markets, the Indian divisions of international publishers are busy signing up new authors.

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

suddenly the breeze blowing, bringing a glimmer of cooler, bleak yet to remove the color of the deep sky, the blue more secluded.

Many women in the color of the modern age still bleak charm exudes charm, this is the result of their good practice.

His work can seem similarly stark, resting on the bleak vision of his best-known play "Waiting for Godot" .

The report came as the IMF issued bleak new forecasts, warning the US would suffer a recession and recovery will not begin until 2009.

When Picasso said we start to get young as we turn 60, he also expressed the bleak belief that it may be "too late" by then.

The report says the outlook for global property investment remains bleak, with no respite imminent from falling values.

To perish in any battle is a bleak thing to do. Splendor is for the living. This idiocy. This wastefulness. Whose idea was it?

For others, however, a battered housing market and bleak job prospects are a major risk to the recovery.

He is a Nobel Prize-winner; but he is also an exile and an Afrikaner, whose work presents a bleak portrait of the "new South Africa" .

How to alter this bleak trajectory will be policymakers' most difficult task over the next decade.

Had already become bleak, remote mountain became dark green, a river winding across bottom of hill.

In view of the bleak prospects, there is no obvious need for specialized organizations and research programmes for prediction.

An optimistic tone rarely heard of late in the increasingly tense, increasing bleak arena of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.

As bleak as the lyrics are, though, they're buoyed by the band's leanest, loosest songwriting yet.

"Business is so bleak, " Di Jian, a sales manager at the Capital Hotel in Beijing, told Barboza.

Bleak job prospects and waning passion for the original majors are ranked as the major causes.

Although often criticized, death growls serve the aesthetic purpose of matching death metal's violent or bleak lyrical content.

I knew that neither parent could afford to support me through my studies, so the situation looked pretty bleak.

This week's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, held in the Swiss Alps in Davos, comes at a bleak time for world capitalism.

In the west jobs, growth and debt are on bleak trajectories whereas most emerging market members have taken the crisis in their stride.

Now is not the time to talk about a bright tomorrow. For now we are focused on how to present a bleak tomorrow.

Given these bleak statistics, it's likely that your site has many pages missing from the search indexes, and those pages can never be found.

But the central bank's moves and its bleak assessment of the economy rattled stocks.

"Just wait, " he'd tell me whenever things looked bleak, "the sun's gonna come out. It always does. "

Over the next 12 to 18 months, it's a bleak economic situation in the West, so the impact on Asian companies will be severe.

"I'm not a pessimist by nature, " he insisted. "I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way. "

As the rustling autumn wind, blowing, nothing left, only the bleak autumn.

on the road home , rain fell on my face , a bit bleak.

But despite the event's bleak inspiration, things at the Unemployment Olympics are generally cheerful.

While undoubtedly bleak, this paradigm no longer looks realistic.

This assessment is undoubtedly bleak, but researchers also identified a few growth factors in the world of web analytics.

Why, given that America usually rebounds from recession, are the prospects so bleak?

bleak autumn cool weather, vegetation exposed to shake off the cream.