The most recent broad poll of Russian public opinion seems to bear out this bleak assessment.

Kevin had never been given such a bleak assessment and his face flushed with anger.

The Russian official offered a bleak assessment of the situation in Afghanistan.

A tour of the prison grounds seems to confirm General Beg's bleak assessment.

Of more immediate concern to the administration was the bleak assessment from some Republicans.

Invariably, the bleakest assessments have tended to get the most attention.

Other politicians, speaking off the record, offered bleaker assessments, and there were reports of moves to bring other candidates into the race.

Small rebel bands coming out of the province confirmed that bleak assessment.

For a sense of Khalidi's bleak assessment, you need go no further than the book's cover photo.

Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, provided its own bleak assessment today.