Sentence examples for depressing background from inspiring English sources
Against that depressing background, the failure of the Czechs to find any workable government, three months after their parliamentary election in June, may not be so bad.The election was a tie.
Most of the people in a position to make changes are those who benefit from things staying pretty much as they are.Against that depressing background, what chances are there for reforming anything at all in Russia?
Other factories are shutting too.In this section The capital's creed Extra time Vexed in the City Hot, greasy potato Sacking in the age of Dave The ermine flies More where it came from Lost in the woods ReprintsAgainst this depressing background, support for devolution has been solidifying (see chart).
As world leaders return to their respective countries following the UN Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the context for implementation provides a depressing background.
Such had been the impact of the 90-minute documentary, exposing the dangerous lives and depressing backgrounds of tattooed gang members who battle for control of drug, prostitution and extortion rackets, that his murder sparked an immediate wave of political revulsion.
Billboards in southern Nicosia, which normally promote the latest cell-phones, feature the word Ochi (Greek for no) against a depressing dark background.
Even though I'm an investor, one thing that has always bugged me about Seesmic is the all black background (its depressing), and the excessive use of Flash on the site (there's nothing except Flash, try loading it on an iPhone).
Against that background I find it rather depressing to learn that today a Thai court sentenced Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, a magazine publisher, to 10 years in prison for the offence of lèse-majesté insulting, or injuring, the monarchy.
In the 1970s, as I had more opportunities to engage with other young people of diverse backgrounds through activities in the community, I began to see the depressing human effects of poverty and racism.
After all the money ploughed into encouraging students from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to Britain's most elite universities, it is profoundly depressing that their numbers have gone down in the past decade – even if only by 126.
15 Against this horrifying background, the 20th century might appear as a great improvement, in spite of its depressing statistics of violent death.
