Sentence examples for dreary state from inspiring English sources

What about the dreary state of the housing market?

If you are young, years of rote learning in dreary state schools did not prepare you well for this new world.

Eschewing dreary state television, they tune in to about 25 illegal satellite channels, most of them broadcast by Iranian exiles in California.

Few Africans can afford newspapers, but every village has a radio, and many now have an alternative to dreary state propaganda.

Yet both say a lot about the dreary state of Mexican-American relations and President Bush's unfulfilled promise of a new golden age in neighborly ties.

Transforming one dreary state function into a footballing free-for-all, this political progressive puts girls and boys on a level playing field.

Private television channels are changing much of southern Asia, where for decades often dreary state-run television was the only option.

Instead, the finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, is pursuing broadly the same prudent macroeconomic policies that prevailed under Thabo Mbeki's presidency from 1999 to 2008.Mr Zuma has been accused of weak leadership, particularly since his dreary state-of-the-nation speech earlier this month.

Mr Huang first found success by acting as an intermediary between the factories making electronic goods that were springing up in southern China throughout the 1980s and consumers in Beijing, who at the time had few places to shop other than dreary state-owned stores.

He seems to have scraped a remarkable victory in North Carolina.But Mr Obama did not really succeed in abolishing what David Axelrod, his chief strategist, calls the "dreary math of red state and blue state": the Republicans still dominate the South and the Great Plains.

In the dreary land of city and state politics, Isac (as he is known) has invented a singular niche — that of extreme political buff and magpie.