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There were dire warnings of an ecological disaster and world oil prices through the roof as the Iraqis set fire to the oil fields.
If such a plan is truly in the works, it will have dire consequences for the people of Darfur.
Mention a fourth commercial TV network in this country and suddenly the dire predictions emerge in job lots.
There were dire predictions of the demise of baseball as a major sport if a strike or lockout took place.
Everyone recognizes that the Assembly of First Nations is an unwieldy organization in dire need of reform.
The way he asked for money put to use his prodigious talents as a preacher, a wheedler, a comic and a man in dire financial need.
The U.S. literary scene is in dire need of a young, outspoken, original bomb thrower.
As we conclude that the leaders have failed to make changes, we are currently in dire need of new blood in leadership positions.
Ministers are also not required to become emotionally involved, or to throw down ultimatums, or to rattle sabers and make dire threats.
I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity.
It would also be in dire trouble if regulators relaxed constraints on the mobile market about supplying airtime to competitors.
The flagrant flaunting of wealth amidst the dire poverty of the mass of the population is helping fuel social and political opposition.
He lost the ticket too, so he returned from his beat with a face like thunder snarling dire deprecations at the scavenger hunters.
I wanted to argue, or display my thespian skill by claiming a dying relative or dire emergency.
I told Jacques to press this with all his might and not back down, no matter how dire things looked.
Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits.
It is likely that the bone-modifying behaviors of dire wolves were intermediate between those of extant wolves and spotted hyenas.
It is amazing to think that a club playing in a new 20,000 all-seater stadium can be in such dire financial difficulty.
It is clear that the processes to mobilize our Army for war are in dire need of change.
Then it was a dire plod back along Rainhill Road, through Nutgrove then home.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Overpowering her dire confusion, in obedience to him, she looked at the epergne, and listened.
Hennie Penny, you see, had come bravely through dire troubles of her own, and tribulation softens the heart as it does the ormer.
Pour dire vrai, however, the rosbif of England is hardly more scientific than the sun-dried meat of the Tartars.
When the cold and damp summer of 1845 brought the potato rot, the little, overpopulated island was facing dire want.
C'est assez vous dire that I can make no plan for any social adventure within any computable time.
Having in mind the information related to you by Mr. meller, that there was dire need for financial assistance here.
Hard experience had taught him the dire results of exposure and overexertion.
The present, so, was more than any possible future, how dire soever it might be.
And with this dire remark he grabbed at a sliding pot and chocked it off on top of the stove with a rolling rod.
What hath so dire a tendency to solemnize the heart and impress it with the most just and weighty religious sentiments?
Nations, time and again, have felt the dire effects of effemination and have sunk beneath them.
The first Canadian shipbuilding was the result of dire necessity.
Had that lota fallen, what a dire omen would it have been to him!
In fact, no word except that of dire disaster had come to hand.
But it is a dire necessity, and it is impossible to avoid or to turn it.
There is dire need for an intendent center to meet development needs and train national cadres, she said.
But hast thou no friend that will help thee in thy dire need?
Efes will not have it easy on the road as Unics Kazan is in dire need of a win to improve its record.
Legree, cursing his ill luck, and vowing dire vengeance on the morrow, went to bed.
I'M heartened by your campaign to support grass roots football as many national newspapers appear blind to the current dire situation.
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