Sentence examples for particularly grim year from inspiring English sources

That's what happened in 2003, a particularly grim year.

The trial of Ms. Ni and her husband, Dong Jiqin, capped a particularly grim year for Chinese dissidents and human rights advocates.

The key question now is whether this is a one-time blip, a short-term correction after a particularly grim few years, or if it is a sign that the economy has made a more fundamental change.

Last week, an example of the city's violence traveled around the world by particularly grim means: 28-year-old Antonio Perkins was broadcasting live on Facebook when he was fatally shot.

In a particularly grim instance, a 73-year-old woman with advanced esophageal cancer has the misfortune of being scheduled for surgery in mid-December, when operations are routinely canceled to make way for emergency patients suffering from pneumonia and the like.

During the first five months of 2009, Wells Fargo, to take one prominent example, had defaults exceeding those of the entire year of 2008, which itself was a particularly grim one.

All in all, it's been a mixed bag of a year, but on the civil liberties front, things were particularly grim.

But Mr. Quinn's proposal to raise the state's personal income tax to 4 percent from 3 percent — a move he portrayed as a "surcharge for education" — comes at a particularly risky political moment, one that numerous governors find themselves facing in a fiscally grim year: he is seeking election in November.

The numbers in Somalia, a country racked by 20 years of violence with little established government and few health services, are particularly grim.

The fourth pandemic began in 1863 and in a particularly grim chapter of this pandemic, cholera killed one-third of the 90,000 Mecca pilgrims attending Hajj that year.

The figures are particularly grim in the Russian Federation, where 50,000 new HIV infections were registered in 2000--more 2000--more 2000--moreyears combined.