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The economy continues, however, on its downward trend and the outlook remains bleak as infrastructure continues to deteriorate and fall into disrepair.

When you're broke and hungry, everything looks black.

83. Another situation deserving priority attention was the persistent economic crisis affecting Africa, which was hindering its prospects for rehabilitation and development.

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Prospects for further progress are dim not merely because one country or another has lacked the will to cut through the web of vested interests.

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Unless and until these problems are made transparent, the Conference cannot hope to find consensus, and the shadow over its usefulness may darken.

Indeed, increased debt servicing obligations resulting from higher interest rates, along with weakening export prospects, ran the risk of reproducing an unsustainable debt burden.

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None of the institutions currently has sufficient funds to cover its work for the remainder of 1997, and the outlook for 1998 is worse, with only a fraction of their projected budgets pledged by the international community.

The prospects are not as gloomy as you think.

It were in the middle of the night by then and the campfire burning low.

It's sort of dull colored. And it's fairly common.

That gloomy picture is further exacerbated by the significant increase in the number of allegations of sexual misconduct against United Nations peacekeeping personnel.

1. Mr. Mekdad (Syrian Arab Republic) expressed dismay at the poor prospects for the restoration of the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of Palestine refugees to return to their homes.

Unfortunately, the General Assembly had concluded at the end of its nineteenth special session that, even if encouraging results had been achieved in the area of sustainable development, the overall prospects were gloomier than in 1992.

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As long as there is conflict in Myanmar, livelihood prospects within the country will remain poor, and as long as the Government fails to protect human rights, there will be those who feel compelled to seek a better life elsewhere.

As a result of the inability of the Greek Cypriot side to come to terms with the realities on the island and its obsessive efforts to impose its political will at all costs, the prospects of a peaceful settlement in Cyprus are diminishing.

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Notwithstanding, the future of the Centre looks bleak, as there is no foreseeable reliable source of funding that would ensure the operational sustainability of the Centre.

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It deprives them of their childhood, while the lost years of nutrition, education and socialization reduce their prospects for the future.

As recognized by Robert Chambers and Jethro Petit These fine ideals stand in contrast to a development landscape littered by failure, corruption, secrecy, greed and contradictory motives.

Enlightened self interest must overcome such political obstacles. The longer that world leaders resist the overwhelming need for reform, the worse the world s future economic and financial prospects not to mention its security situation will be.

Mr. Milton (Australia) said that the prospects for substantive work by the Committee, at least in the near future, remained poor.

In short, the solution to the Cyprus crisis is no solution at all for the eurozone. Unless the authorities embrace a growth strategy and do so quickly the eurozone s prospects will become increasingly bleak.

This dark picture is even darker in Africa than in other continents.

Both Japan and the United States stand out as bright spots in the subdued global outlook, but for different reasons. In Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has unleashed a combination of aggressive monetary and fiscal expansion along with promised reforms of the labor market, corporate governance, regulation, and trade.

The escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country s prospects. Sectarian conflict seems to be increasing on a daily basis, with militias massacring hundreds of Sunnis and Shiites solely on the basis of their religious identities.

The long term effects of such progressive obsolescence means in reality the destruction of the industrial base and the entire infrastructure of the country, painting a gloomy picture for future generations.

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A frightening landscape that could be on the dark side of the moon.

yeah to see you rotting your life away in this miserable, dark hall.

When I was a student here in Oxford in the 1970s, the future of the world was bleak.

So these creatures will be bright against the cold surroundings.