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>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history. – Wang Feng	Found on Reuters 1 year ago
I think we’re in a really bleak situation here in this country. – Nina Jankowicz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
2021 was, as we documented here, a very bleak year and 2022( is looking) even worse. – Jan Egeland	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We share this moment not through touch but our eyes, yours brilliant, shining, willing, wanting to know feel the pain, understand, mine dead to the world, a bleak history of empty files – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
Putin is an aging autocrat, obsessed with the legacy of his rule, and that of the failure of Soviet Union, soviet Union has been ravaged by Covid-19, and the future of Soviet Union hydrocarbon export economy looks bleak. – Pasi Eronen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario. – Dmitri Trenin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I thought it was a beautiful way to close it, the intention was to really give people some hope because they are such an iconic couple. We’ve lost so many people this year, the thought that we’d have angels hovering around us taking care of us is a good message to send out in such a bleak world that we’re living in. So for all of us, it was a beautiful ending to this story. I’m so grateful that I did it and happy that the fans really loved it. – Patrick Dempsey	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Being able to participate and help get Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the space station for Demo-2 or the Crew-1 mission, those are the big milestones that stand out, these missions are exciting because it returns that human spaceflight capability to the Robert Mulcahy, something that we haven't had since 2011 when the shuttle retired. And that's really inspirational for people across the country and really across the world. I think that the big benefit of these missions launching in a very bleak year. – Robert Mulcahy	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Hopefully it will put a smile on your face in these rather bleak times that we're in at the moment. – Read MoreIn a video message	Found on CNN 3 years ago
My doctor painted a fairly bleak picture of the disease, even going so far as to tell me I probably wouldn't walk again..., whatever happens, MS can't take it all. I will always have my heart and soul, my wit and wisdom. Wherever the chips may fall, if I fall with them I will make it a point to do so gracefully — and laughing. – David Lander	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It all seems so bleak. – Fred Amata	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert. – Arthur Young	added by Normando 4 years ago
Near-term prospects for Japan's industrial sector appear very bleak. – Joe Hayes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The bleak irony of this discovery is that the man who did so much to shape our Christmas experiences may himself have been left with an empty stomach on his last ever Christmas Day. Hard times indeed. – Charles Dickens	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I wasn't interested in a lot of these companies at their IPO prices, but now that they're down 30 or 40 percent, they're interesting to me, i'm in the business of buying when things look bleak. – Jake Dollarhide	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
More than 600 people have now lost their life on the Mediterranean Sea this year, if current trends continue, we are likely to see more than a thousand people lose their life on the Mediterranean for the sixth year in a row, which is a bleak milestone for us to be reaching. – Charlie Yaxley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The potential for new major pipeline development in Canada is bleak with the Senate's passing of Bill C-69. Canada is sending mixed messages that will send critical investment capital elsewhere. – Chris Bloomer	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It's scary, I'm scared. It's bleak, it's dark ; I can't imagine it. I don't think I could handle it considering what I'm going through. – Demetrius Anderson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
If the harvest is OK, that will help communities come out of a terribly bleak period. If it's not OK, we'll need a massive injection of food quickly. – Toby Lanzer	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think there's like 10 critics out there who want things to be withholding and bleak, but I think the average human being and the average human experience is wildly big and emotional and dramatic, i mean, I think we have parents and families and kids. We go to weddings, we go to funerals, we have births of children. We love.... The human experience is like, it is like a beautiful, sad, emotional experience. – Dan Fogelman	Found on CNN 5 years ago
But I will say—and I hope this is OK to say—that after I did that [monologue], he called me. And he said it really helped one of his daughters to understand. She showed it to him and she said, I can love you even though you did bad things. And we cried. It was a small silver lining in a very bleak story. – Sarah Silverman	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It's bleak to say the least for companies trying to get an exclusion. – Alexander Russ	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity. – MG	added by murali_m 5 years ago
I think that we in Africa would have done better at the world (soccer) stage if we had not allowed people to infiltrate the camps of football setting, if you had people who will sit down and fix a match and determine what the outcome will be, that is not fair to African football. If referees can sell yellow card, sell red card, sell goals, then you're looking at a very bleak future of African football. – Kwesi Nyantakyi	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

>HONG KONG, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Living under Chinas stringent COVID-19 restrictions for the past three years had caused Zhang Qi enough stress and uncertainty to consider not having babies in the country.When China abruptly dismantled its zero COVID regime last month to let the virus spread freely, the balance tilted to a definite No, the Shanghai-based e-commerce executive said.Stories about mothers and babies not being able to see doctors as medical facilities were overwhelmed by COVID infections were the final straw for Zhang.I heard that giving birth at a public hospital is just horrific. I really wouldn’t consider having a baby, the 31-year-old said.A glimpse of the scars caused by the pandemic to Chinas already bleak demographic outlook may come to light when it reports its official 2022 population data on Jan. 17.Some demographers expect Chinas population in 2022 to post its first drop since the Great Famine in 1961, a profound shift with far-reaching implications for the global economy and world order.New births for 2022 are set to fall to record lows, dropping below 10 million from last years 10.6 million babies - which were already 11.5% lower than in 2020.With this historical turn, China has entered a long and irreversible process of population decline, the first time in China and the worlds history.

– Wang Feng

Found on Reuters
1 year ago

I think we’re in a really bleak situation here in this country.

– Nina Jankowicz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

2021 was, as we documented here, a very bleak year and 2022( is looking) even worse.

– Jan Egeland

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We share this moment not through touch but our eyes, yours brilliant, shining, willing, wanting to know feel the pain, understand, mine dead to the world, a bleak history of empty files

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Putin is an aging autocrat, obsessed with the legacy of his rule, and that of the failure of Soviet Union, soviet Union has been ravaged by Covid-19, and the future of Soviet Union hydrocarbon export economy looks bleak.

– Pasi Eronen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario.

– Dmitri Trenin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I thought it was a beautiful way to close it, the intention was to really give people some hope because they are such an iconic couple. We’ve lost so many people this year, the thought that we’d have angels hovering around us taking care of us is a good message to send out in such a bleak world that we’re living in. So for all of us, it was a beautiful ending to this story. I’m so grateful that I did it and happy that the fans really loved it.

– Patrick Dempsey

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Being able to participate and help get Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the space station for Demo-2 or the Crew-1 mission, those are the big milestones that stand out, these missions are exciting because it returns that human spaceflight capability to the Robert Mulcahy, something that we haven't had since 2011 when the shuttle retired. And that's really inspirational for people across the country and really across the world. I think that the big benefit of these missions launching in a very bleak year.

– Robert Mulcahy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Hopefully it will put a smile on your face in these rather bleak times that we're in at the moment.

– Read MoreIn a video message

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My doctor painted a fairly bleak picture of the disease, even going so far as to tell me I probably wouldn't walk again..., whatever happens, MS can't take it all. I will always have my heart and soul, my wit and wisdom. Wherever the chips may fall, if I fall with them I will make it a point to do so gracefully — and laughing.

– David Lander

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It all seems so bleak.

– Fred Amata

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years lease of a garden and he will turn it into a desert.

– Arthur Young

added by Normando
4 years ago

Near-term prospects for Japan's industrial sector appear very bleak.

– Joe Hayes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The bleak irony of this discovery is that the man who did so much to shape our Christmas experiences may himself have been left with an empty stomach on his last ever Christmas Day. Hard times indeed.

– Charles Dickens

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I wasn't interested in a lot of these companies at their IPO prices, but now that they're down 30 or 40 percent, they're interesting to me, i'm in the business of buying when things look bleak.

– Jake Dollarhide

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

More than 600 people have now lost their life on the Mediterranean Sea this year, if current trends continue, we are likely to see more than a thousand people lose their life on the Mediterranean for the sixth year in a row, which is a bleak milestone for us to be reaching.

– Charlie Yaxley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The potential for new major pipeline development in Canada is bleak with the Senate's passing of Bill C-69. Canada is sending mixed messages that will send critical investment capital elsewhere.

– Chris Bloomer

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's scary, I'm scared. It's bleak, it's dark ; I can't imagine it. I don't think I could handle it considering what I'm going through.

– Demetrius Anderson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

If the harvest is OK, that will help communities come out of a terribly bleak period. If it's not OK, we'll need a massive injection of food quickly.

– Toby Lanzer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I think there's like 10 critics out there who want things to be withholding and bleak, but I think the average human being and the average human experience is wildly big and emotional and dramatic, i mean, I think we have parents and families and kids. We go to weddings, we go to funerals, we have births of children. We love.... The human experience is like, it is like a beautiful, sad, emotional experience.

– Dan Fogelman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

But I will say—and I hope this is OK to say—that after I did that [monologue], he called me. And he said it really helped one of his daughters to understand. She showed it to him and she said, I can love you even though you did bad things. And we cried. It was a small silver lining in a very bleak story.

– Sarah Silverman

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It's bleak to say the least for companies trying to get an exclusion.

– Alexander Russ

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity.

– MG

added by murali_m
5 years ago

I think that we in Africa would have done better at the world (soccer) stage if we had not allowed people to infiltrate the camps of football setting, if you had people who will sit down and fix a match and determine what the outcome will be, that is not fair to African football. If referees can sell yellow card, sell red card, sell goals, then you're looking at a very bleak future of African football.

– Kwesi Nyantakyi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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