The reasoning was bleak economic conditions and debt from its transition to a private company.

Business pledges to help revitalize poor neighborhoods in Los Angeles have so far done little to change the bleak economic conditions of the inner city.

They are totally responsible for causing the bleak economic conditions... apparently.

Meanwhile, the bulls find themselves in even bleaker conditions.

Although I regretted leaving him in that bleak condition, my obligation to the living is greater than to the dead.

But these pledges have so far done little to change the bleak economic conditions of the inner city.

At the conclusion of his schooling in 1873, bleak economic conditions held little promise of a job, and he chose to go west.

He knew that without nourishment from her mother and under the bleak conditions they faced the infant would otherwise have no chance to survive.

The bleak economic conditions of the late 14th century did not produce buildings that are considered to be part of the Renaissance.

Doing so gives me the credibility to ask for similar concessions from other sectors of the bureaucracy if bleak economic conditions force us to do so.