Every physician I consulted advised that ending the pregnancy was the best of our family's grim options.
Given the E.U.'s ironclad rule that a member state's annual deficit cannot exceed 3 percent, Hollande's government must either slash spending or raise taxes — equally grim options for an economy that has effectively stalled.
Even some of those who favoured the war to overthrow Saddam Hussein have begun to wonder whether a rapid exit might be the least bad of an array of grim options.To be sure, the harm that Abu Ghraib has done to America's moral authority in Iraq, and to its campaign for the hearts and minds of Muslims farther afield, is incalculable.
If the program isn't extended, displaced Puerto Ricans face grim options: accept the government's offer to pay for a ticket back to Puerto Rico, or stay in the U.S. mainland and face possible homelessness.
These enterprises face a grim set of options to fund their working capital needs, including dipping into limited equity reserves or attempting to raise debt on an exceptional basis from an impact investor or development finance institution, often requiring an elusive loan guarantee as well.
Few insiders think that is likely: the pay-offs, they moan, are too stingy, and with financial markets in turmoil, alternative employment options look grim.
The options were grim: he could starve as a martyr, or leave the embassy and face certain arrest.
Of course, there is no way to ward off Huntington's if the test comes back positive, while patients with a BRCA1 mutation at least have some options, albeit grim ones.
They will have no choice but to move to higher ground, and their options are grim as they search for a home in war-torn Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.
Patients affected by mitochondrial OXPHOS disorders are still faced with a grim lack of therapeutic options.
