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Sentence Examples It's not often that anything wipes the cheery grin off his face but he was downcast on learning the bad news that his finger was broken. The bad news is that many companies do not have the depth of management to achieve this. The most frequent complaint I hear is that journalists present only the bad news. The bad news for air passengers is that things are likely to get even worse. I spent a lot of time getting ready for Halina the second time, but she had bad news when I arrived. The bad news is that those of you still using version 4 or older browsers will not be able to see any of this. Now the counting is over and, as so often in life, we have good news and bad news. He then received a second call from her in the evening bearing the bad news. This is bad news for poor organisations hoping to run it on ancient hardware. If you want to avoid this process, then there's some good news and some bad news. She didn't know whether the news was good news or bad news, and so she didn't react at all to it. The bad news is that anyone who adores linear thinking will be in for a rough ride this month. I know you are all busy with your families, up to your ears in daily problem solving, and that the last thing you need is bad news. They could be critical and convey bad news, knowing that their jobs would remain secure. The bad news is that these stands are self-assembly with several hundred tiny screws and washers. The bad news is there won't be a performance but there will be an exclusive meet-and-greet that night at a secret location. The bad news is there won't be a performance but there will be an exclusive meet-and-greet at a secret location. The bad news is as each day ticks on the funding allocation of over 1 billion per year gets taxpayers less and less road for their money. As much as it pains me to be fair to Kissinger, he isn't the only public figure whose travel plans mysteriously synchronize with bad news. He can't come across as the bad news bear, lest people decide they don't want to listen to doomsday prophesies for the next four years. Show More Sentences When people don't believe bad news, or don't want to believe it can affect them, the tendency is to shoot the messenger. Calling them names for doing so is like shooting the messenger who brings bad news. It was much like a potentate of yore shooting the messenger carrying bad news. The more immediate bad news is that tropical storm Jeanne is next in line coming across the mid-Atlantic Ocean. But unfortunately there is the bad news as well, the tragedies, accidents and the deaths. What's more, bad news about trans-fatty acids hit the margarine and spreads industry hard. The bad news is that the vocation's reputation did not rise out of the trough it has been mired in for two decades. If a quick health check at the bar uncovers some bad news, the pub will do a roaring trade in stiff shorts. A clever carpenter can address variations in worktop depth and even surface heights, but even slender vertical gaps between units are bad news. But there's bad news too, as local supporters have to start again down in the fourth division. The bad news is that we're going to have to dig extremely deep to buy more space. She is small and mousey and I can't help but think of all the bad news she must have to give people each day. When you share bad news and try to reassure people, they're likely not to believe you unless they feel you have skin in the game. There is bad news for millions of homebuyers and savers as with-profits insurance companies make their bonus declarations over the coming weeks. The bad news is that I'm vain, snobbish, a bit of a gossip and am rather divorced from most of the real world. From what looked like very bad news came the unutterable relief of very good news. But later that evening the police came and broke the bad news to him, he said. He should have told shareholders the bad news, but he didn't breathe a word to anybody. The bad news is that French antipathy towards him is so obvious that it sours the whole occasion. Although it is at odds with our predominant medical ethical culture, many families and patients desire nondisclosure of bad news. Show More Sentences To argue that this is bad news because it is slightly higher than analysts expected is surely to enter the realm of statistical hair-splitting. There is bad news today for any bald, guitar-playing Afghani who likes a hand of Bridge. And there may be some bad news in the announcement that the first release will include a booklet and a Bullwinkle hand puppet. It's not all bad news for the former Chorlton convent girl, whose hard-nosed approach to her job earned a lot of admirers. The bad news is, there are a couple places where the fire can cross more easily eastward into the populated areas. When the bad news is in the headlines, you will need confidence in your portfolio selections. Our team had a storm cloud over us today, following some surprisingly bad news relayed by the night float. The only people who want to hear bad news are the people who are heartened by failure. We had military censors, not to suppress bad news but to keep damaging news from the enemy. There is also bad news on the way for young drivers, with a major overhaul planned for the provisional licence system. But they always sugar-coat the bad news by saying that the revenue is ahead of last year. The bad news is that the consumer PC market is rapidly approaching maturity, with renewals overtaking first-time purchases. It is particularly bad news for the Green Party, who are usually well supported by the student body. If it doesn't give you pause for thought, even in a world besieged by bad news, you aren't paying attention. The bad news is that the current government is constrained by the circumstances it inherited from the previous administration, he continued. The bad news is that they seem to be swimming in data generated by virtually everyone with a telephone, a computer or a fax machine. There's a disposition to believe any bad news, whatever the source, and an indisposition to believe the good news, no matter how reliable. Among the many reasons for writing letters are communicating good news and, alas, bad news. Once again, the town's manufacturing industry bore the brunt of the bad news. The bad news this year is that the pink champagne of choice is harder to find than usual. Show More Sentences The bad news is that this will not occur until the Democrats control the Senate and the Republicans are the ones filibustering. There's bad news for the bookies heading into tonight's radically changed interdominion heats. Why rock the boat with bad news stories about interpersonal relationships when you have an annual plan to sell to voters? He was an easy going pleasant man to deal with and he had a nice way of giving good or bad news. This spells bad news not only for Arctic peoples but for species like the polar bear, which hunts seals on the sea ice. Accurate or not, the flood of bad news appears to be reaching some kind of crescendo. The midwife visited this morning and the good news is that the head is engaged but the bad news is that the baby is posterior. The bad news is that the admission to the United sector is a hefty 12,000 forints. This is bad news for a company which depends so highly on retail sales which should rise to a crescendo in the run-up to Christmas. This is bad news for the magazine, which, despite its lock on the market and air of wealth and ease, is hardly a cash cow. The bad news for the rest of the Premiership is that the daddy of destroyers is destined to get meaner by the day. The first month of driving alone, on a P-plate, is extraordinarily dangerous, and the first six months are pretty bad news. To prevent profiteering on bad news, the wagers would have been kept small. Possible expansion was, however, tempered with some bad news with the issuing of a profit warning for Waterford Wedgwood. All buses are equipped with radios to ensure the immediate propagation of bad news. It depresses me to think of people trying to sell papers by dredging up bad things or bad news. He came onto the public address system and said he had some good news and some bad news. Things start going wrong, bad news overshadows the good, the odds seem stacked against us. I then had to wait for the results and I didn't know if it was going to be good or bad news. This is very bad news for the one person in ten who suffers from nickel allergy, or those with eczema or dermatitis. Show More Sentences An interest in bad news demands a certain high level of national seriousness and gravity and, possibly, hopelessness. The bad news is that the prospects are dim for achieving this end without the resort to force over the coming years. Race is a very divisive issue and if they managed to get a seat it would be very bad news for everyone in the area. The bad news is that every single byte of data on the hard drive has been completely and irretrievably lost. The bad news for the British fashion industry was that Stella McCartney would not be showing her debut eponymous collection in London. The collapse of the dot-bomb meant bad news for both, and in fact the Dow Jones has yet to match its pre-bust high. It is absolutely imperative in my view that every family that reads this message takes the bad news seriously and prepares for a long siege. Good news travels fast, bad news travels faster, and embarrassing news travels at warp speed. Instead Wednesday and Thursday saw moderate but acceptable gains, indicating that the bad news has been discounted. However, there is bad news for wealthy families who use trusts to shelter assets from tax. Christine took the bad news well enough but the rest of the Top 9 contestants were devastated to see their fellow singer sent home. The bad news is that there will inevitably be job losses in the hundreds, if not thousands, among the ranks of common bank workers. The bad news is that popular sentiment in this matter is rather nationalistic. Well, seminar after seminar makes the point that bad news doesn't get better with age. The bad news for air travelers is that in the long term, fares are bound to increase. That's probably bad news for the industry, which has blamed its billion dollar losses partially on persistently low airfares. But even if there is no bad news awaiting you at the hotel reception desk, that feeling lasts only hours, a day or two at the most. More bad news this week as public school teachers across Bermuda began working to rule in protest at another last minute Ministry decision. Further write-downs are expected as further bad news from recently floated companies take place. Bad news is always hard but bad news on a beautiful sunny morning seems doubly burdensome. Show More Sentences There is always some bad news somewhere and therefore always a reason not to invest. Either way it is bad news all round especially for the poor man under a train. It was bad news, though, to hear that this production gave itself under two weeks to cast and rehearse the two plays. The bad news is that this All Hallows' Eve is likely to have more than the usual share of actual fear. The bad news was that a trekker from another party had been struck down with a combination of altitude sickness and pneumonia. Channel 4 reporter and anchorman Krishnan Guru-Murthy had just finished his midday rapid-fire barrage of breaking bad news. The bad news is that it will take time and effort and an investment to retrofit existing systems with services-oriented interfaces. The bad news comes at a time when banks have lent more money than ever to consumers with poor credit. The stock markets are not the only indicators of economic health, of course, but there was bad news aplenty elsewhere last week. The same discussion is in order when the contractor delivers the bad news that the project will run on another six months. What's bad news for the government and corporate America could end up being a boon for the oft-rejected lounge lizard. The bad news is that we will need to be a little more careful to insure that the takedown screw remains tight when the rifle is in use. Isn't there always bad news just when you think a project is going along nicely? If this commercial proposition proves wrong, it could be bad news for more than Scardino. In Japan, the banks are in a terrible mess so we can only expect more bad news from Tokyo. The bad news is nobody knows who will be the Chancellor in two or three weeks, if we have one. I told him to stay out of it and let someone else be the bearer of bad news. But there is a world of time for bad news and we are only travelling together for a short time more. But after I'd dragged myself out of bed this afternoon and nerved myself to replay what I somehow knew was bound to be bad news, I pressed the button and heard. I cannot think of any politician today who would give bad news so baldly. Show More Sentences And that was the real bad news for Young Living, because a drug has to be studied and claims verified. In other news, I don't have a valentine. And the only girls who seem to have any interest in me are either total jailbait or barely legal. The question is, is that bad news? The bad news for his rivals, however, is that protest candidates have proved very effective at indelibly soiling whatever image the party is trying to convey at the moment. And it's good to go while the getting is good, but Miss Wolff has bad news for her friends and fellow country fans, rockabilly retro-ists and would-be jivers. From tests for cancer, diabetes, heart disease to HIV and leukemia, it is a regular occurrence that staff at the department will be the finders of extremely bad news. He had just finished his midday rapid-fire barrage of breaking bad news. The bad news is that he was with a woman who looked like a hooker. We live in a negative world where we are constantly bombarded with bad news, hurtful gossip and sometimes people we hold in high regard trying to keep us down all the time. Lady Antonia and myself are both agreed that this is bad news. You should communicate bad news clearly, fairly, and humanely. The bad news on nuggety scrumhalf Vido Nako is he suffered a serious knee injury against the Eagles and according to Van der Merwe, could be out for as long as 10 months. All this bad news is darkening the mood of company executives. However, it's not all bad news on the unification merry-go-round. White and a pale sort of foamy green swirled together on the walls, and the doors were dark blue, ominous and foreboding pits that threatened to cave in before bad news. There is no time to be wasted by shooting the messenger of bad news. The bad news is that even though he complains he can no longer connect with contemporary pop music, that doesn't stop him from cluelessly pontificating about its demise. We know that many people have an unfortunate tendency to kill the messenger who bears bad news, and sometimes it is necessary to take this tendency into account. He uses it to dismiss hecklers and distract from bad news in the Garden State. But there has been a nonstop deluge of bad news for ink on paper types that makes you wonder whether there is light at the end of the preverbal tunnel. And we all know from experience that sorcerers with reps are bad news. Show More Sentences The bad news is I skipped the cool down and the imps of sloth have decided to punish my errant behaviour with a pinched nerve, that restricts the movement of my head. The end game in Syria is particularly bad news for Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizbullah. But the fact these rigs are in the firth at all is bad news. In fact, the moa is a New Zealand species but kiwis are more closely related to emus and cassowaries in Australia, so it may be bad news for the national symbol. We don't want round robins, we want the letters to be personal letters saying why the decision over Metrolink is bad news for you, for your business, your family or your job. The bad news is that there isn't a simple fix for your problem. If this is confirmed, it will be bad news for those who've been expecting that confirmation of past life on Mars would provide a burst of energy for the field of astrobiology. He said the parents of girls who lived in her boarding house had been contacted at home and given the bad news before they returned to school earlier this week. The bad news is that Romney is still underwater, meaning that more voters continue to see him unfavorably than favorably. The bad news was short-lived, however, as FOX ordered a new script and new pilot the very next month based on the same concept. The bad news for those who are predicting Livingston will collapse is that McNeill expects his players to go from strength to strength as the season progresses. The bad news for him is that others have copped on to his game. Even if this isn't heresy, it's bad news for women's claims for equality. This is very bad news for the wildlife that depends on bog moss. That was bad news for the middle-men, the people who owned NYSE seats and the guys in the funny jackets who worked on the floor. How much more bad news are policyholders supposed to endure? The bad news, he tells us, is that the rise of the machines will only worsen the wage polarization we are seeing today. I was feeling like that kind of guy appearing in several different mythologies, that kind of guy having the unthankful task to bring over the really, really bad news. A PR job is fraught with potential pitfalls and catastrophes that are predisposed to causing bad news, he cautions, and lists the sources of disasters. That said anyone who has been investing for a little while knows that the market often overreacts to bad news and this can provide good opportunities. Show More Sentences Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but here at Royalist towers we think not. Walmart cashes about 18 percent of food stamps in the U.S. Ergo, any cut would be bad news for the company. Move on, move forward, hold your head high and please recognize that this begging boyfriend is majorly bad news. The bad news is that, to many, the home office market is elusive and the home office worker is a mystery. The bad news is that financial innovation can be a profit-seeking behavior by boundedly rational managers within the financial organizations. This was bad news because of the ability of the grey to outcompete the red for food. Even though he had bad news, he tried to wind up his speech on a positive note. One of the rules of journalism is that news from Africa is always bad news. The bad news is that this study uses a specially produced flavanol rich chocolate, so normal dark chocolate won't give you the same effect. And publicizing the so-called bad news alerts parents and community members that school officials are aware of problems and fixing them. Because of the Dominican Republic's proximity to Haiti, where voodooism is practiced, owls are treated like witches or as very bad news. All this is very bad news for coral, which has a fairly limited temperature comfort zone. At his church, dealing with good and bad news has become a balancing act. Did the authorities realize that they should not shoot the messenger who is only obliged to convey the good and bad news? According to a new study about banking and word-of-mouth marketing, there is both good and bad news. My longtime friend, since birth actually, called and gently broke the bad news to me. That's bad news for supporters of Cape Columbine, and the other fillies Karen's Caper beat to the punch earlier in the month. And so, the neverendum marches on. This is good news for the Liberals but bad news for Canada. If Moody's injury was bad news for Johnson then Wilkinson's display got old beetle brow smiling. The bad news is that cotton still faces a serious threat from the western tarnished plant bug, Lygus hesperus. Show More Sentences What bad news would that be? I'm wondering. That's just one more no-account Carter for me not to have to think on. In July, bad news from the Somme campaign swept concern over Jutland from the British consciousness. In the face of bad news Churchill normally became even more pugnacious, always wanting to respond to defeat by going on the attack. This is bad news if you have a standard poodle or similar, which is shortly to be shown at Crufts. And that could be bad news for O'Hara, as his record suggests he will have to rely on outboxing his rival. The team reported the bad news in September in the International Journal of Biometeorology. This is bad news, since cortisol also acts as an appetite stimulant. Kier got its bad news into the public arena in July when it revealed the depth of the chill in the housing sector. The bad news is I have a cracked bone in the scaphoid of my left wrist and the little finger on my left hand will be permanently bent. An ambulance worker who found the mobile in the wreckage used the redial function to call the man's brother and break the bad news. With all the bad news at the moment it makes a change to see a genuine heartwarming story. I agree that it would be bad news if the grant were withdrawn totally but it is still a scare story. The bad news is that nearly every color laser is too big to share a desk with comfortably. The bad news is that a lot of dishonest dealers routinely cheat consumers, despite California lemon law and California auto fraud laws that are designed to protect consumers. He's got some bad news in store for us, judging from his mood. Though he had bad news, he ended with an upbeat forecast for the future. The bad news is that instead we will get a smiley face if you are travelling within the speed limit or a frowny face if you are just one mph or more over the restriction. The bad news is that phylogeny production is overwhelming the few avian taxonomists with the training and desire to produce modern classifications. Furthermore, consistent with our hypothesis, we determine that good corporate governance alleviates spillovers of bad news from corporate scandals experienced by competitors. All the good news and all of the bad news is wrapped up in a single word, rotation,'' Prudential Securities technical analyst Ralph Acampora said Monday. Show More Sentences Though its result was understandable, the recent District of Columbia election was bad news in that it represented a successful revolt of the tenured class. Which is bad news for dweeby Cameron who wants to take her to the prom. Many are warning Spears that he is bad news and is trying to use her. Examples from Classical Literature I am but a poor diplomat to break bad news, as they call it, to any one, so I blurt out the truth at once. The bad news is that these characters in the ghost mall have us in their crosshairs. The walking wounded still come straggling in, singly or in groups, all greatly depressed at having such bad news to relate. Well, while His nibs is absorbing the bad news, we'll go over this once more. If it's bad news I don't want to hear it, and if it's good I can wait, I cal'late. Perhaps pryer was going to break to him some bad news about his speculations. Mr. Smith answered me in the tone and with the manner of one who is seeking to break bad news gradually and gently to another. He imagined that Jane Brown would not think writing home on hospital stationery a good way to break bad news. And her real thought when she asked him if he had come to break bad news was that something had happened to Temple. For a terrible moment, she feared that the Squire might be about to break bad news of Alfred. Between man and man, he was no believer in striving to break bad news gently. You didn't on the dock, you know, when you got the bad news. Thus, discreetly, did the man of law break the bad news he bore. But Rennie's effort to break bad news gently was too obvious. Oh, Arthur, are you only trying to break bad news to me by littles? The Moscovites felt that something was wrong and that to discuss the bad news was difficult, and so it was best to be silent. I was not much easier in my mind, now that the trial of breaking my bad news to Alicia was over. All this was incomprehensible, and then, with the tenacity peculiar to prophets of bad news, the failure was put off until the end of September. Yet us football fans are a hardy bunch we've all developed a thick skin, so when we get more bad news we're like boxers who take it on the chin. The minor bad news was that the unit came with four tone arm counterweights and I had only two, plus the instruction manual was missing. Show More Sentences There is good news and bad news about euthanasia from the Netherlands and Belgium in JAMA Internal Medicine earlier this month. He did not, however, enter immediately, and Mrs Durbeyfield said that she would break the bad news to him herself, Tess keeping out of sight for the present. This was bad news for him, and he was thankful that they had not carried out their first plan and commenced their prospecting at Bekwando village. The bad news is that diagnosis is based on the sliding Gary Busey scale. The bad news is, no, they won't be smoking, screaming, and leaving skid marks on those nice white walls at 140 mph in the first annual motordrome Gran Prix de Thomas Krens. The bad news is that in Victoria, the Bracks government is considering a proposal to expand Hazelwood power station, Australia's worse greenhouse polluter. 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