Black clouds began to come up.

The IMF s gloomy growth forecasts attest to that.

Bolivia s future is not inexorably bleak. There is a window of opportunity to rebuild its state and institutions in more viable forms.

Bolivia s future is not inexorably bleak.

Weak investment activity partly reflects a gloomy view of the European market.

Even the pessimists are speaking only of lower positive growth.

For independent observers, the ministry s grim forecast comes as no surprise.

Given this, dire comparisons to, say, the decline of Rome are simply unwarranted.

The verdict disproved gloomy predictions of a hung parliament and the further strengthening of regional parties.

But then the company passes through this dark stage to this Democrat.

On the horizon, we can watch the grim fruition of the common saying A Pole can.

Webs of intrigue and murky players obscure details, but the priorities are unmistakeable.

'Well, at least your skeleton is a funny one and not a dismal one,' said Dolly smiling. 'No, it is a dismal one. Do you know why I am going to day and not to morrow?

Perhaps even in the depths of Mongolia, you would have heard the dire warnings emitted by journalists.

Grim picture of life, near the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, a rare archaeological site.

The history of the Cadereyta massacre and the grim facts of Ayotzinapa are particularly strong examples of this phenomenon.

Since those dark days, Germany has developed as a healthy vibrant democracy.

Many recall the dark days when American society enforced racial segregation.

But renaming it a struggle or a strategic challenge has not changed the grim realities on the ground.

With both, when Ed played them, I cried when I heard them, and these songs are profoundly dark.

That, plus the gloomy international outlook and a fiscal policy that will have to become less expansionary after the election, will slow the economy down.

So on May 1, 2004, when the dream of expansion is fulfilled, there will likely be little jubilation on either side of Europe.

Instead, apprehension and the desultory hope that it will all somehow work out in the end will dominate.

Faith in Guerrero's governor and elusive mayor of Iguala has slipped, and their political party faces grim prospects in the next elections.

When I hear the baleful cry of the higurashi zemi, with its hint of cooler temperatures, I know that summer is near over and fall is approaching.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas thought that some scenes in the movie would appear too dark and intense for young children.

But obviously, whether or not you do believe in the existence of the Christian God (or any other kind of god), Dawkins's gloomy conclusions do not follow.

Such a high valuation can be justified if SKS provides a better service than the competition, but darker interpretations are possible.

If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.

In many countries particularly in Southern Europe bleak economic circumstances are generating social tension, political apathy, civil unrest, and delinquency.

Ironically, however, such a grim prospect would not mean the end of globalization, defined as the increase in worldwide networks of interdependence.

Not since the early 1980s, before the first rays of glasnost in Russia, have those dark times felt as close as they do now.

From the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to the lower reaches of the Thames, all aspects of the capital are described over the course of his body of work.

But let s put these grim prospects aside, and ponder what a civilized solution to the problem of technology driven unemployment would look like.

In reality, however, the election is a straightforward fight between Obasanjo, a born again Christian from the Yoruba southwest, and Buhari, an ascetic Muslim from the Hausa Fulani dominated north. So far, bleak predictions that the campaign would split Nigerians along Islamic Christian lines, triggering sectarian violence before the voting, have not come to pass.

There were dire though ultimately misplaced predictions about chaotic conditions for participants, and then, of course, the catastrophic performance of the home team.

So far, bleak predictions that the campaign would split Nigerians along Islamic Christian lines, triggering sectarian violence before the voting, have not come to pass.

As a former ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), I can say from experience that such dire predictions are nothing new.

Excluded and facing bleak life prospects, young people, in particular, often experience anomie and may turn to anti social behavior, including violence.

Happily, investors darkest fears were not realized, and we can only hope for the same.

This view of the band was in sharp contrast to how the band was perceived in Europe, despite the increasingly dark and serious tone in their songs.

Projects like Lustmord, Nocturnal Emissions, Zoviet France, and Lilith evolved out of industrial music during the 1980s, and were some of the earliest artists to create consistently dark ambient music.

Everyday, newspapers all around Brazil are flooded with grim headlines about Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second largest city and home to many of the images found on the country's postcards.

Yet instead of thinking that the momentum building in 2006 will carry forward and make 2007 an even better year, Europe s gloomy experts are predicting a significant slowdown.

No sooner did this strategy pay off with a narrow re election victory one that strengthened Republican control of Congress than the dark realities of Bush s fiscal recklessness started to be recognized.