Sentence examples for grim development from inspiring English sources

After the suit was filed, Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, said he planned to join the suit and thought that a "coalition of states" would also jump on the legal bandwagon — a potentially grim development for the rating agencies, which could find themselves contending with a phalanx of state officials like the one that aimed at big tobacco in the 1990s.

Pete Stephenson, the former Hull Dockers player who has rebuilt his life so inspirationally since suffering a broken neck several years ago, was the Ero — and the thoughts of everyone also went out to Steve Prescott, the former St Helens full-back who is currently in the Christie Clinic in Manchester battling a grim development in his cancer.

But a grim development reminded female candidates — and, you know, women everywhere — why American politics is experiencing the second so-called Year of the Woman.

In a grim development to a sexual assault case involving a state lawmaker in India, the alleged victim's father died in police custody on Monday after sustaining injuries that his family said were from retaliatory beatings ordered by the lawmaker and his supporters.

But the latest grim developments follow a week of events that suggested the Assad government was being forced to fight harder to keep its grip on power.

These two grim developments were capped by a third misfortune when, last spring, the department of transportation blocked United's merger with US Airways.

But even the higher number is still about half the rate of participation seen earlier this year — a sign some say of growing resignation in the face of a constant stream of grim developments.

But in the face of such grim developments, Congress has yet to heed the warnings of Mr. Potter and his successor, Patrick R. Donahoe, and pass legislation to help the agency.

Page A10 FEWER PROTESTERS IN GREECE Protests in Athens drew fewer participants than demonstrations earlier this year -- a sign, some say, of growing resignation in the face of a constant stream of grim developments.

There are also some new, and grim, developments.

Even before Trump came to power, the American state was radically expanding its surveillance capabilities, its war-making capacities, and ― among other grim developments ― its punitive policies toward the poor.