Sentence examples for a grim case from inspiring English sources

The Dublin murder squad has a grim case to solve in Tana French's BROKEN HARBOR (Viking, $27.95).

Haiyan offered a grim case study on how climate change is a live issue for the Philippines.

The death of Rosa, a 10-year-old apprentice from either the Yuki or Pomo tribes, provides a grim case in point.

Here, a grim case of infanticide has them reading up on the genesis of Grand Guignol horror on the English stage and the origins of the puppet character Mr. Punch as the pagan life force.

The extortion, which prosecutors said was an effort to get Mr. Seagal to pay as much as $3 million from his film work, was a foray into Hollywood by Mr. Ciccone's crew that gave a dash of drama to what was otherwise a grim case of typical mob preoccupations, like collecting debts and handpicking waterfront union officials who would answer to underworld bosses.

Surprisingly, large swaths of this region have cellphone service, which means health workers at clinics can let doctors at the hospital know when they have a particularly grim case.

In a more grim case, the terms war dove and war hawk have been re-purposed as labels for two opposing political factions divided over the ongoing mutual hostility between birds and the human minority: the altruistic Dove Party, who advocate for cooperation and peace between the two groups, and the militant Hawk Party, whose goal is to exterminate humanity altogether.

The grim case came as a result of a child abuse investigation in Quincy, a small town in Plumas County.

Now she was scrolling through a seemingly endless list of grim case histories of people who were killed or injured when their sightseeing aircraft or balloon crashed.

MOSCOW — The grim case of a Washington-area toddler who died of heatstroke after his father left him in a parked vehicle for nine hours is national news in Russia, fodder for angry political commentary and kitchen-table discussion.

Finally, swerving back to DVD, The Call (Warner, 15) is a cracking bit of nonsense from B-movie ace Brad Anderson: a lean, lurid thriller stars Halle Berry (actually doing some work for once) as a 911 operator drawn remotely into a grim kidnapping case.