But they have not stemmed a flood of video and words from the demonstrators on the streets — the same dark tide as bore the grim image of the dying Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old Iranian woman shot and killed last weekend.
His murder bore a grim familiarity in a country with a brutal legacy of politically motivated killings, and it raised a troubling question: Was he killed for trying to organize workers?
Visibly shaken, he bore some grim news: There'd been a shooting at the rally, which he'd ran from.
Not that it matters around the Bears' grim Lake Forest headquarters, and it shouldn't.
The iron black gate, which bears the grim inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work will set you free"), once stood at the prisoner entranceway of Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany.
The signs bear a grim reminder of the 73 people who have died on the multilane roadway since 1993.
The latest installment in Politico's profile series is Glenn Thrush's piece on the newly reeëlected Speaker of the House, John Boehner, which bears the grim title "The Prisoner of Capitol Hill".
increased the purse from $1.25 million to $1.6 million to encourage Ahmed Zayat, owner of American Pharoah, to have his stellar colt compete at a picturesque track that bears a grim reputation: "Graveyard of Champions".
In truth Adam considered few things in life a grimmer bore than an evening at Podunk's finest strip club, but he went along with it, because his job was to make these people admire him, a job at which he excelled.
The drugs - which were originally designed for treating schizophrenia, and worked for a lot of people whose unmedicated lives were so grim that they bore the side-effects as best they could - were never intended for use with people with dementia, but they crept into the range of treatments, anyway.
