On the night of July 2, Pemberton laid out for his divisional commanders a dismal set of options.
The highest vaccination rate in the country is in Mississippi, a state with an otherwise dismal set of health statistics.
But a dismal set of figures on retail sales, which fell by 1.5% in September, sent the dollar reeling to new lows.
4. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (1865) The tiny, narrow kitchen of Messrs Eugene Wrayburn and Mortimer Lightwood is the centrepiece of their "dismal set of chambers".
Despite a rather dismal set of new releases in the first week of September this year, the month is tracking strongly ahead of the same period in 2014.
For a party of Europhiles who take European democracy more seriously than most, and coming after a dismal set of local election results on Thursday, it was a heavy blow.
The results essentially completed a dismal set of fourth-quarter reports for the industry, which has suffered whiplash in the last year, first from record fuel prices that peaked during the summer, then from the sour economy.
EVEN the Grinch could not have engineered a more dismal set of circumstances for the start of America's holiday shopping season: entire industries are on the brink of collapse, the gyrations of the stockmarket have driven investors to despair, the days of easy credit are a distant memory and retailers are going bust.
There are alternatives of sorts – the Dutch winger Steven Berghuis is a work in progress but played for half an hour, hitting one notably dismal set piece that barely got off the ground, while the Colombian forward Victor Ibarbo made a vaguely promising cameo.
"Unfortunately, this dismal set of figures indicates this momentum has not been carried through into the Christmas quarter.
Following a dismal set of quarterly results and a plunge in its share price, some investors are now calling for a break-up, sale or change of management at the company.
