Sentence examples for bleak state from inspiring English sources

But the data still reflects the bleak state of the American labor market.

The murder of Berta Cáceres illustrates a bleak state of affairs in Honduras.

Despite the current bleak state of capitalism, he's also optimistic about the future.

Another Detroit resident, Jean Vortkamp, got emotional as she described the bleak state of city services.

But this bleak state of affairs is born less out of global crisis and more of government resistance.

GM's plight is only the most dramatic expression of the bleak state of the global car industry.

On a recent morning, all three had more clients than the bleak state-run bar on the same street, whose offerings included omelet sandwiches, hand-rolled cigars and condoms.

The personal positivism inherent in Drake's psyche at the time cannot be overstated (if only to act as a contrast for the depressing bleak states that were to follow).

Most importantly, he managed the peaceful transition from a pretty bleak Communist state towards a reasonably functioning democracy, elevating public morality not to mention political worldliness to the Czech political agenda.

Officials of the league assert that its bleak financial state should lay a firm foundation for a salary cap or a similar device to deliver cost certainty in its negotiations over a new contract with the players' union.

In "Dundun" rural depression and the narrator's bleak mental state fuse in the description of a dead soybean crop, "the failed, wilted cornstalks … laid out on the ground like rows of underthings".