Sentence examples for dismal gap from inspiring English sources

"If I had my way," he wrote many years ago on the subject of that dismal gap in the week, the Scottish sabbath, "I would have all the Scots transported to Spain, and swallowed up once and for all in the sheer good humour of one Spanish Sunday, so that they flew home singing, and... hung John Knox in the cupboard in a dun nightgown of his own loose skin".

Revealing another month of dismal sales, Gap Inc. said yesterday that sales in stores open at least a year fell 12percentt last month compared with a 1percentt decline in the month a year earlier.

The review group found the same problems The Washington Post had: disorganized, bureaucratic care with glaring gaps; dismal living conditions; dangerous staff shortages.

Mr. Farmer, a longtime Yonkers principal and school administrator, came out of retirement in June 2000 to take over a struggling school district that had been battered by chronic budget gaps, dismal test scores and a federal desegregation lawsuit that resulted in more than two decades of bitter litigation and federal intervention.

The bigger picture for the gender pay gap remains dismal.

The current 200, which was built as a stop-gap for the dismal Chrysler Sebring, will be replaced early next year, followed by a replacement for the Town & Country minivan.

Without such a focused commitment, the dismal college-readiness statistics and the racial gap will persist unabated.

In Holyrood the previous week, Davidson was calling on Sturgeon to account for another set of dismal education figures that indicated a widening attainment gap between the haves and the have-nots.

But what's really dismal is that even reforms that could keep the gap from getting wider — ending the mortgage-interest deduction, challenging residential segregation — are politically toxic.

A dismal run of form had left a 10-point gap between Chelsea and leaders Manchester United at the start of the day.

"Given the dismal state of the economy and the growing skills gap, it's time we redeem these jobs as meaningful, valuable professions worthy of all Americans".