| Or is placing a feathered creature upon the shoulders considered an even bleaker omen than shooting one? |
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| His chances of career survival are made bleaker by his transparent and clumsy attempts to turn himself into the victim. |
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| You would think that the hero blinding himself in self-punishment would be the low point of tragedy, but the story just gets bleaker. |
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| The CD is a more personal affair, deep cogitative blues mingling with the bleaker registers. |
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| It looked even bleaker when Steve bought in six summer signings and he was farmed out to Sunderland on loan. |
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| Our changing cultural climate has replaced the traditional image of boys with a bleaker and more depressing picture. |
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| The overall outlook for the Millennium Development Goals, already a cause for serious concern, was now even bleaker. |
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| Unfortunately, the picture is bleaker for the Canadian manufacturing sector. |
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| Add to this certain negative aspects of the impact of globalisation and the picture gets bleaker. |
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| Starting with the bleaker picture: Petre has lost nearly a quarter of its listeners since its heyday. |
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| They will face even bleaker choices in the future of their health care and education budgets. |
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| Lastly, the bleaker outlook for companies prompts banks to tighten their credit standards. |
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| Doug Roche said that in 34 years of the non-proliferation treaty, never has the situation looked bleaker. |
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| Yet one week earlier, on November 20, 2008, the Parliamentary Budget Officer painted a bleaker picture. |
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| Both are rumoured to be haunted, and as the common gets bleaker throughout the autumn and the lawns frost over nearer Christmas, it is easy to imagine the rumours are true. |
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| For young men who experience feelings of despair the outlook is bleaker. |
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| That Chenoweth would be suited to a role that channels the bleaker parts of her past should come as no surprise. |
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| Even on the bleaker windward slope, grasses and sedges are dotted with Bermuda cedar and guava bushes. |
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| But our risk scenario-which we do not expect to materialize-is much bleaker. |
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| As the landscape grew bleaker — tumbleweeds piled against wire fences — Lauer turned onto Coles Levee Road and stopped the car. |
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| Their testimonies report a bleaker situation than first expected in this area, yet quite far away from the epicentre. |
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| With Makoto now on the defensive and Inoue treated as a plaything, the entire situation looked grim for the entire village and even bleaker for the two defenders. |
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| It is easy to see why this movie would appeal to international cinegoers in a way that a bleaker film like City of Joy could not. |
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| Of course it's pretty hard to see the regime compromising, but other avenues are bleaker still. |
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| On the south coast among the six anchorages, the reports are even bleaker. |
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| In 1986, when the Commonwealth Games were last hosted in Britain, Edinburgh endured a fortnight of stormy skies and an even bleaker financial legacy. |
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| Add to that the dismal judicial system, and the outlook is grim. It is bleaker still when you see how long rape's effects endure. |
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| When these additional criteria are factored in, a much bleaker picture emerges. |
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| The employment prospects for these dropouts is bleaker than ever. |
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| The prospects for a satisfactory outcome to music rights clearance problems from the users' point of view are becoming bleaker, with some music publishers withdrawing their catalogues from the collecting society network. |
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| The career prospects for Snowden look even bleaker. |
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| On the international scene, governments will also have to give greater consideration to this international responsibility towards countries with much bleaker economic situations than ours. |
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| Pundits and politicians are concerned about an even bleaker future where Canada's role in China would be limited to being an exporter of trees and rocks. |
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| The sisters' elderly grandmother scrambled to pay for school uniforms and books, as she knew that without education her grandchildren would face an even bleaker future. |
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| But the state of research in Canada is looking quite a bit bleaker. |
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| It means that the outlook for immigration reform will only get bleaker. |
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| The widespread disillusionment in the state, increased by Mr Gramm's acerbity, casts a shadow on the agreement's future. Mr Massieu's future looks even bleaker. |
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| The new Allies lean towards the assertive vision of security put forth by London and Washington and take a bleaker, more Darwinian view of international relations than their Western neighbours. |
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| As the current economic outlook grows bleaker, the Member States are naturally revising the targets set out in their stability and development programmes. |
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| He did not elaborate, but I imagined that he might have been brooding over unfinished business with his mother, or maybe his marriage, which had grown bleaker amid the desolations of age. |
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| The frustrations of the past ten years can be put in perspective by remembering that even during this much longer, bleaker period, there were achievements. |
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| The picture was bleaker in 1996, to be sure. |
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| On bleaker ones, I become convinced that Tim Berners-Lee is the beach-head landing party for some alien race that has invented the perfect way of deskilling the global population and rendering them powerless against attack. |
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