Sentence examples for grim race from inspiring English sources

In Peterborough, employment agencies are stuffed with young eastern European men being packed off to do temporary work, and locals swear blind their sons and daughters either do not get a look-in or are caught in a grim race to the bottom.

Divers' grim race against time.

And other large multilateral development banks (MDBs) are also seeking cash.In this section Grand Pru Back from the Fed The grim rater Race to the bottom Cap in hand A FAB idea On deaf ears Reprints Related items Correction: Bank administrative costsMar 11th 2010Some are further along than others.

Britain's opposition Conservatives have promised to defend its AAA rating.In this section Grand Pru Back from the Fed The grim rater Race to the bottom Cap in hand A FAB idea On deaf ears ReprintsOver the long term the ratings of most developed nations have been remarkably stable.

And did his boss upstairs pay him any heed?In this section Grand Pru Back from the Fed The grim rater Race to the bottom Cap in hand A FAB idea On deaf ears ReprintsQuintessentialThe survey welcomes India's remarkable escape from both the financial crisis and a disappointing monsoon.

AIG will be left with a string of other businesses, but none as distinctive or so plugged in to the world economy's most vibrant region.In this section Grand Pru Back from the Fed The grim rater Race to the bottom Cap in hand A FAB idea On deaf ears ReprintsBut AIG will also take its biggest step yet toward becoming a normal company again.

Now seven police officers are set to stand trial for the murders in a grim tale of race, trigger-happy police and an apparent cover-up.

Demoralized by downsizings, outsourcings, restructurings and "rightsizings" -- dislocations summed up in the grim quip "the race to the bottom," today's employees have little institutional loyalty left to give.

This novel bursts with the imagined, lived, tragic-comic, polyphonic reality of London — its speech, accents, dusty pavements, whining buses, gloomy offices ("boxy cramped Victorian damp"), wet parks, scandalous disparities (this is as much a book about class as about race), grim housing estates (Smith's eye may take many privileged readers as far as they have ever gone into such places).

That was as grim and gruelling a race as has been run all winter, run at a reckless tempo through the mud, and Long Run was the only one able to hang in there.

Doctors later announced that he was "in a stable condition and looks set to make a full recovery", but for 30 grim minutes even the race's bizarre interruption by a protestor seemed to be an irrelevance.