If the grim scenario develops, Pedersen said that legislators must set firm spending priorities.

Today, would measures to shrink the budget deficit mean repeating that grim scenario?

A number of things need to happen if this grim scenario is to be averted.

But his friends did not dwell on the grim scenario.

George was weighing grim scenarios and ominous intelligence about potentially even more devastating attacks.

Each day's newspapers brings a new and usually grim scenario for the future.

Does this grim scenario represent the future of the United States and our trade partners?

I am concerned about the potential for a very grim scenario.

So he tacks on different ending by turning, in his own words, to "an unbelievably grim scenario."

Obama asked if a no-fly zone would prevent that grim scenario.