Sentence examples for bleak country from inspiring English sources

And after the sparkling prosperity of Kuwait, the houses suddenly become low cinderblock hovels in bleak country.

And it's especially galling knowing that we have paid £125 for a visa to be in their bleak country.

On the surface, everything was much the same, with bleak country vistas, tilted violet hats, and one serious tragedy that made the tears well.

Three miles away coach loads of tourists were noisily exploring Aira Force - I saw some of them on my way down - and I've no doubt there were processions going over Helvellyn, but nobody else had thought it worthwhile going up into these fells which look more blank on the map than any other part of the National Park except perhaps the bleak country at the back of Skiddaw.

Never mind that he painted mostly bleak portraits of a barren country.

FIGURES for Greece's economic output in the second quarter, released yesterday, are pretty bleak: the country sank deeper into recession, contracting 1.5% during the quarter, making a total decline of 3.5% over the past year.

With an estimated 30 million people living with H.I.V., the picture is especially bleak in countries like Botswana, where 4 of 10 adults have the virus, and Zimbabwe, where the infection rate is well over 30percentt.

While consumers in Japan and the United States welcome this shift, the situation is bleak for countries such as Russia, Iran and Venezuela.

The outlook is equally bleak for a country sagging under the burden of high unemployment.

In 1997, near the end of Mr. Meciar's bleak tenure, the country received only $84 million in foreign direct investment, compared with $1.2 billion in the Czech Republic, $1.7 billion in Hungary and $3 billion in Poland.

At one point, I spoke to a loquacious, level-headed twentysomething woman, who had two things to say: that if the minimum wage went up, she could hold down two jobs rather than her current three; and that she felt so bleak about the country's future that she had decided not to have children.