"It is encouraging that bird conservation actions worldwide are making a noticeable dent in the bleak scenario of global biodiversity loss," she wrote.

On the contrary, governments continued to talk to all of the factions involved, even when they were confronted by bleak scenarios.

This time they sent him forward to the bleak scenario of Deathlands, nearly a hundred years in the future.

Little room for sentiment exists in this bleak scenario.

There are even scenarios that start a player off in a pre-played game that he must resume (and overcome a bleak scenario).

What is actually true is that various bleak clinical scenarios will vary in their degree of futility.

In a bleaker scenario, inflation could rise above 30 percent monthly.

"In the bleakest scenario," said Segui, "some courses would have to be closed."

It is a bleak scenario, but there is every possibility that it could come about.

It is a bleak scenario, one in which abortions and the doctors who provide them would be pushed even further into the shadows.