Sentence examples for bleak operations from inspiring English sources

The bleak operations room of a set, brilliantly realized by Jim Clayburgh and Jim Findlay, and Jennifer Tipton's meticulously calibrated lighting are every bit as much characters as those played by the actors.

But some analysts had said that the figure masked a bleaker performance, because it included several one-time gains that should not have been part of ongoing operations.

Most international search and rescue teams wound down operations, a bleak acknowledgment that anyone still missing beneath the pyramids of debris that define this city's landscape has by now perished.

Accommodation facilities were, according to the unit operations book, "bleak and depressing" and deficiencies in equipment were "too numerous for itemising".

On Oct. 18, 1942, he and three fellow commandos were parachuted onto the bleak Hardanger Plateau in Operation Grouse, organized by Britain's newly formed Special Operations Executive.

(Her husband is reportedly related to McCrae Dowless.) Jessica Karen Dowless, who said that she worked six days a week tracking ballots, painted a bleak portrait of an operation of workers addicted to drugs and not entirely sure what they were doing or why.

Mr. Holbrooke's comments came as Mr. Annan offered a bleak prognosis for a planned operation in Congo.

Yet from one hilltop outside Datong, the view of the bleak, pocked landscape also revealed smaller operations tucked into ravines and gullies.

But they are mystified about how Parmatour could have needed 500 million euros, or more, to shore up its operations, even in a bleak environment.

Most big securities firms still need to shrink parts of their operations to adjust to a bleaker outlook for the financial markets that drive their businesses.

But Assad's Arab critics have been doing some bleak calculations: in the eight days of Operation Pillar of Defence 160 Palestinians were killed by Israel.