1.   A lively tour of continental culture, seeking for signs of unity and predicting a grim future.

2.   The poor economic climate and the attitude of leading executives both point to a grim future.

3.   What is at stake is whether conurbations like Merseyside and Tyne side face a future as grim as the present Belfast.

4.   According to all the medical experts who warned my grandmother of a grim future, Jimmy Joe was not supposed to live past early adolescence.

5.   Struggling with a shortage of young cream-of-the-crop associates, the top firms saw a potentially grim future on the horizon.

6.   The events in Beijing traumatized people in Hong Kong because they seemed to foretell a grim future for this capitalist enclave.

7.   This precarious existence is now caught between a collapsing past and a grim future, a future that for many Turkana means abject poverty.

8.   This could mean a grim future for people who are not already deaf, because teen-agers, who invariably get older, are bound to be in charge eventually.

9.   Raymond Dominguez and hundreds of fellow copper workers lost their livelihoods as a smelter shut its doors, dooming the company town of Playas to a grim future.

10.   Already facing a grim future because of their poverty and school and Slovak-language limitations, the Roma children now have even fewer options.