1.   But these steps forward are against the background of some grim realities for children in other areas.

2.   However, the pain in her chest confirmed that this was no nightmare, but grim reality.

3.   Life was teaching him its grim realities - the hard and close way.

4.   My brief visit certainly brought home to me the grim realities that lie behind the many statistics on Third World debt.

5.   Perhaps some of them are good at putting on a face, saving the grim reality for private moments.

6.   Yet its simplicity dramatizes a grim reality.

7.   It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality.

8.   Although he has won praise from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for his innovative programs, he acknowledges that the complex faces some grim realities.

9.   Although some investigators held out hope that Mrs. Silverman would be found alive, the grim reality of police work forced them to explore the worst possibilities.