Unemployment is up, retail sales are slow and the housing market will stay in a grim condition.

Yet in truth, metastatic cancer remains one of the grimmest conditions a person can face.

It's a wonder that grim economic conditions in the Soviet Union are not worse.

The grim condition of the economy in 1831 drastically reduced the demand for silk goods.

The Bab spent his last years imprisoned in grim conditions.

British officials also received first-hand accounts of grim conditions under which many detainees are still being held.

The inter-war period was marked by grim economic conditions.

They were surprised at the good conditions after several weeks of travel and grim conditions in transit camps.

But in spite of these extremely grim conditions, they continued to carry on the fight.

Prison sentences can be long and served in grim conditions.