It adds up to a bleak prognosis for Sunnis in Baghdad.
Considering the bleak prognosis for Alzheimer's disease, anything is worth a try, isn't it?
Within 24 hours, everyone would discover the details of his predawn surgery and the bleak prognosis.
Doctors there knew how bleak the prognosis was and how difficult - and probably futile - the treatment would be.
The doctors offered a bleak prognosis, suggesting he was unlikely to survive long because he "just didn't have enough lung capacity".
But the bleakest prognosis tended to ring loudest, especially in the daily terror assessment at the top level of the Bush administration.
The bleak prognosis: Haitians don't trust cops, and the new officers have done little so far to remedy this.
A decade is the bleaker prognosis being used by some professionals to base their investment decisions on, which brings me to my first tip.
In July 2009 he was diagnosed as having advanced multisite metastatic cancer with a bleak prognosis.
But for at least a week, the Administration has been giving a bleak prognosis in private discussions with Congressional leaders and diplomats.