Sentence examples for bleak climate from inspiring English sources

Some 8,000 young Icelanders study abroad every year, with America the most popular destination; amazingly, given the bleak climate and long dark winters, some 90% return, This helps keep the country dynamic and open to new ideas.

The bleak climate couldn't be more suitable for THE FIFTH WOMAN (New Press, $24.95), a chilling account of how a civilized nation can unwittingly breed a strain of brutality in its population.

And though this idyll makes it a tourist magnet, a little savvy allows locals to avoid crowds so that the joys of summer make up for the bleak climate the rest of the year.

As the bishop was describing a bleak climate of fear, for example, federal Atty.

Raising revenues will be extremely hard in today's bleak economic climate.

Not even a doctorate from Harvard University means much in this bleak economic climate.

The island's bleak Antarctic climate, with perpetual snow covering three-fourths of the island, supports only hardy grasses and other tundra plants.

But the bounty that Mr. Redzepi uncovered in the seemingly bleak northern climate sets an example for chefs to pay close attention to the land.

In a bleak economic climate, a meeting of leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday and Friday was supposed to reassure nervous voters and markets.

But it was worse than expected due to the "cautious" approach high-street retailers were taking in the bleak economic climate.

And one of those radios plays a late-'60s news report — something about a "senior American official" and "two billion in credit over the next five years" — that conjures a bleak economic climate, with war debt and stagflation in the offing.