Sentence examples for grim former from inspiring English sources

In his place is Vladimir V. Putin, the grim former K.G.B. colonel whose return to the Kremlin has ushered in a frostier relationship freighted by an impasse over Syria and complicated by fractious domestic politics in both countries.

Among other things, this would rule out the grim former spy chief, Omar Suleiman, whose late entry to the race has raised howls of outrage from revolutionaries.A final plot twist has come with a court decision that has stopped (pending appeal) the work of a recently appointed assembly charged with writing a new constitution.

"A single Trump story can get a couple million views," says Grim (a former colleague of the Erik Wemple Blog).

Unless the very best ideas of the Policy Review are seized upon and transformed into a radical manifesto such as that of 1945, our electoral prospects will be grim". The former minister said that the new body – the National Health Service and Social Care Service – would increase voter confidence in the system.

Even the grim-walled former prison camp outside town, Perm-36, billed as Russia's only gulag museum, was converted into a theater last July for a well-reviewed production of "Fidelio," Beethoven's opera about political repression.

Pisani knows that the only mental images outsiders may have of Indonesia hail from Java, the island containing nearly 60percentt of the country's population: Wayang shadow puppets moving behind a translucent screen, luminous batik cloths and the grim-faced former dictator Suharto, who ruled between 1967 and 1998.

Disclosure: Grim is a former colleague of Erik Wemple (Blog).

"I think he thinks to himself, 'God, this is what I would do' " in response to the grim circumstances, a former Clinton economic official said.

But this is grim timing for the former House majority leader from south-west Houston.

But today Cuba is a grim shadow of its former self.

David Stubbs Robert Webb and Victoria Hamilton play warring divorcees in this superbly performed, spectacularly grim one-off from former Simpsons writer Julie Thacker-Scully.