Sentence examples for dismal area from inspiring English sources

But the district had already become a slum in the eyes of many Istanbulus, a dismal area with more popular neighbors: the now largely gentrified Beyoglu, Galata and Cihangir districts.

It all contrasts sharply with the gritty business of mass transportation -- usually associated with the deafening clatter of steel wheels on steel rails and long waits in dismal areas.

He said the bank was slow to recognize how dismal the euro area's growth prospects had become.

With a headquarters based in Moyock, North Carolina, the company was named after the Great Dismal Swamp, the area of wetland on which its facilities were built.

When the votes from the nine other polling centers around the district are counted, the turnout, they said, could top several thousand — not overwhelming, perhaps, but hardly dismal for an area where there is combat nearly every day.

Fig. 1 The Great Dismal Swamp study area includes the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge and the Dismal Swamp State Park.

The former ferry terminal became the Dismal Nitch rest area, named after the Lewis and Clark Expedition's description of the place.

Of course, the numbers are still not where proponents of alternative energy would like them to be they're dismal even in areas of the country that offer fat rebates for using solar-powered energy.

The record is similarly dismal in other areas of domestic policy.

The Dismal Nitch Safety rest area, formerly the Megler Landing Rest Area, was remodeled twice in 2007 to be accessible year-round.

For several decades the downtown area was dismal and all but empty after dark, but since the 1980's it has experienced a building boom, fueled by the rapid growth of banking, insurance and other service industries.