bleak

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Bosnia 's future looks bleak.

Clearly, even more difficult and bleak times are ahead for the workers.

How profoundly the bleak global economic climate will affect us is largely in our own hands.

The suicide rate is particularly high among young people who can no longer endure their bleak situations.

cross

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Yet this cross - border problem demands a cross - border solution.

Cross - border crime requires a cross - border approach.

What we need is cross - financing.

My worry is about cross - contamination.

They are a safe product, traded cross - border.

dark

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34424 They still prefer the system where suitcases of banknotes are handed over in the dark.

Once again we are being asked to take an important decision while being kept in the dark.

We hope that it will be a beacon for all of us in the dark nights that lie ahead.

It is, in fact, almost like performing a striptease in the dark, if you will pardon the expression.

depressed

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42955 There is a commitment to alleviate the problems of the most depressed regions.

It says that we have strong economic fundamentals and yet we have depressed growth.

desolate

dim

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The issue of its legal status could have been resolved now rather than in the dim and distant future.

dismal

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Whether total or partial, privatisation will only make an already dismal situation worse.

The dismal upshot of this civil war is millions of refugees and total deaths estimated at over a million.

dreary

gaunt

gloomy

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In this gloomy climate, let me offer a gleam of hope.

I may paint a gloomy picture, but we do have reason for hope.

There is nothing left of democracy, and the prospects are gloomy.

The gloomy facts speak for themselves and leave no room for doubt, let alone complacency.

Yes, and the picture looks very gloomy in the Council on the equal opportunities policy front.

lugubrious

melancholic

morose

mournful

peevish

pettish

petulant

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Parliament should behave responsibly as a grown - up legislator, not as a petulant child.

sad

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It is a sad day for agricultural policy, and a sad day for the taxpayer.

That is a very sad reality.

12632 They are very sad happenings indeed.

20205 And this is, perhaps, a sad consolation.

My country is a sad example of this.

somber

sorrowful

sullen

surly

unhappy

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I am unhappy with two aspects.

It is all a very unhappy situation.

I am very unhappy that this has been blocked by some governments.

This is a legally uncertain basis for legislation and that makes me unhappy.

sorry

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am sorry but it is too late.

I think that is a particularly sorry state of affairs.

I am sorry, but we cannot re - take votes.

I am sorry, but that must not happen again.

Here we are confronted with a sorry state of affairs.