Sentence examples for were increasingly grim from inspiring English sources

The television reports were increasingly grim.

Their living conditions were increasingly grim; their shoes had worn out and many men wore makeshift sandals made from hay and straw.

The movements of markets are collective predictions of future prosperity, and the tidings are increasingly grim.

But as legislative sessions begin this year, the mood in many chambers is increasingly grim.

The signs have been increasingly grim at Odsal through the winter.

Conditions at the Scuola Verde first aid centre, Augusta's only emergency shelter for migrant children, are increasingly grim, with overcrowded dormitories and rubbish-strewn hallways.

Scores of young men find only seasonal work in tourism in western provinces, but with the sector expected to plummet by 50% this season, prospects are increasingly grim.

And forecasts for 2001 are increasingly grim, throwing into doubt the hope that the tourist trade could provide a profitable new foundation for regional economic cooperation.

Patterson and Fosse write that, in the years after Moynihan's report, a "discrepancy" developed between the optimistic scholarship of sociologists, eager to emphasize the resilience of black families, and "the reality of urban black life," which was increasingly grim.

Now, with the huge new printing of money by the Federal Reserve, and moves by China and other nations to avoid having to trade in dollars, the outlook for the currency is increasingly grim.

But the EEA warned that although on areas such as industrial pollution, air pollution and waste management the EU was showing good progress, the outlook for two decades from now was increasingly grim on all environmental fronts.