Sentence examples for bleak reminder from inspiring English sources

It was a bleak reminder of what the Khmer Rouge did to its own people.

The decision to close four hospitals and lay off 948 employees is a bleak reminder of Alabama's shrinking budget.

Marlene Dietrich's Tanya watches over this doom like a witch or prophet, a bleak reminder that there is no hope.

Up on the cliff overlooking the Fukushima plant is a bleak reminder of an ongoing battle at the site.

A video shot by a foreign mountaineer in September, showing a young nun being shot by Chinese border guards, was a bleak reminder of the risks they run.

The year also brought advances in cloning and imaging — and a bleak reminder of the fragility of some of Earth's rarest species.

The recent quake on the Enriquillo fault and the forecast for the Septentrional are bleak reminders that the Caribbean is an active seismic zone, one with many hazards.

In 1983, Andrew Neil took over at the Sunday Times, and made clear he had little time for McCullin and his bleak reminders of a less fortunate world.

The brutal killings and the continuing flight of migrants via the Mediterranean coast are bleak reminders of the repercussions of the country's breakdown.

In the past week, several harrowing images and stories have served as bleak reminders of the staggering human toll of Europe's migrant crisis: a 3-year-old Syrian boy lying dead in the sand; hundreds of desperate migrants clashing with Hungarian police; dozens of dead refugees found in the back of a truck in Austria.

Ware's injury was as bleak of a reminder as there could be that the games going on inside our televisions are actually being played by real people somewhere else fragile people; young people.