Sentence examples for grim environment from inspiring English sources

But Monday had a spate of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions, surprising investors, who had expected deal activity to slow in the grim environment.

Later in the morning, Douglas Hannant presented his collection in the theater at City Center, a grim environment for clothes that Mr. Hannant presumably thought of as vaguely decadent and fun.

And all of these numbers were far worse in the fourth quarter, with investment banking down 43% year on year, financial advisory down 25% and underwriting more than halving.Despite this grim environment, none of the banks announced shifts in strategy or approach, other than doing more with less.

It is clear that setting the economy free has enslaved the people; not in the old ways, not as in the early period the industrial era, when laissez-faire led to misery, want, hunger and exploitation, but in ways unimagined in the grim environment of the 19th century.

Asked about the future of the leveraged buyout business this week at The Deal's Private Capital Symposium, Mr. Moelis, a former top UBS banker who now runs his own firm, Moelis & Company, said the cycle would continue even in this grim environment -- but also encouraged his colleagues to step carefully.

If we try to imagine that the Russians will start building a nuclear power plant in Syria the very same way they have apparently been assisting Iran, then it will double an imminent danger to the existence of Israel and create a very grim environment for the Arab countries of the oil rich Persian Gulf.

But into this grim environment comes a breeze of hope.

It's a great break from the grim environments of… well, lots of the games on this list.