Sentence examples for bleak spot from inspiring English sources
"Dresdner Bank will continue to lose money next year," predicts Marc Thiele of Commerzbank.Dresdner is not the only bleak spot in Mr Diekmann's inheritance.
Since Russians were understandably reluctant to settle in such a bleak spot, Peter had to bring them there by force: merchants were forbidden to trade from other cities, and noblemen were required to build houses in the new capital.
In fact, one bleak spot in his stint at Ericsson was when he issued a profit warning in 2007 just weeks after telling investors how well the business was doing.
The area of Huntington Beach around Huntington Pier, a fairly bleak spot between swampland filled with rocking oil derricks and the ocean, can look a little forbidding on a gray winter day.
But in 1954, when the United States marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, alight on its rocky shores to hunt for an escaped murderess, this bleak spot is home to Ashecliffe Hospital, a maximum-security institution for the criminally insane.
Life will inevitably have its bleak spots without our help.
They are rarely, if ever, at such bleak spots as the Morina crossing-point or in the squalid refugee camps burgeoning elsewhere in Albania and Macedonia.
Houellebecq's observations on western concepts of travel touch some very bleak spots, places that Alain de Botton might reach in a dark, drunken rage.
But while the Canadian corporation's most recent earnings still have plenty of bleak spots, there's enough of a change here to make investors hopeful as the company goes full bore into a long-awaited transition to a software/services/branding operation.
Today we've left the bleak valley that Pheriche sat in and climbed higher to an even bleaker spot.
