There were dire warnings of an ecological disaster and world oil prices through the roof as the Iraqis set fire to the oil fields. |
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If such a plan is truly in the works, it will have dire consequences for the people of Darfur. |
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Mention a fourth commercial TV network in this country and suddenly the dire predictions emerge in job lots. |
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There were dire predictions of the demise of baseball as a major sport if a strike or lockout took place. |
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Everyone recognizes that the Assembly of First Nations is an unwieldy organization in dire need of reform. |
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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. |
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The U.S. literary scene is in dire need of a young, outspoken, original bomb thrower. |
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As we conclude that the leaders have failed to make changes, we are currently in dire need of new blood in leadership positions. |
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Ministers are also not required to become emotionally involved, or to throw down ultimatums, or to rattle sabers and make dire threats. |
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I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity. |
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It would also be in dire trouble if regulators relaxed constraints on the mobile market about supplying airtime to competitors. |
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The flagrant flaunting of wealth amidst the dire poverty of the mass of the population is helping fuel social and political opposition. |
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He lost the ticket too, so he returned from his beat with a face like thunder snarling dire deprecations at the scavenger hunters. |
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I wanted to argue, or display my thespian skill by claiming a dying relative or dire emergency. |
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I told Jacques to press this with all his might and not back down, no matter how dire things looked. |
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Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits. |
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It is likely that the bone-modifying behaviors of dire wolves were intermediate between those of extant wolves and spotted hyenas. |
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It is amazing to think that a club playing in a new 20,000 all-seater stadium can be in such dire financial difficulty. |
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It is clear that the processes to mobilize our Army for war are in dire need of change. |
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Then it was a dire plod back along Rainhill Road, through Nutgrove then home. |
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If the process occurs too early or too late, if it is too strict or too libidinous, dire consequences will result. |
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Many is the occasion that I have lauded the economy's transformation from the dire days of the 1970s, when Britain was the sick man of Europe. |
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While major routes such as trunk roads and motorways receive relatively large amounts of cash, Scotland's local roads are in dire need of repair. |
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The latter was a major concession given the country's dire economic straits and desperate shortage of electricity. |
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Over Turkish coffee on the terrace at Amman's Four Seasons Hotel, he issued a dire warning. |
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Anyone in dire straits because of the floods should turn to the official appeal for help. |
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I know of people who suffered the lumps and bumps of skin cancers and the inevitable dire consequences. |
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All three of those cities are in dire need of more skateboard artist types to invade their shores. |
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Companies suffer from a provincial and culturally blinkered approach to the repertoire and with dire performance results. |
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And the hostile army was devoted with dire execrations to the gods of war and of thunder. |
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The theme underpinning the film's murder investigation is the dire and inescapable consequences of circumstance and personal choice. |
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In turn, these companies have taken advantage of dire drought conditions in parts of Brazil to entice workers into slavery. |
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He added that City had been in dire straits several times before and had always managed to scrape their way clear. |
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But I, like many newer Canadians, do not carry the weight of having placed them in dire straits. |
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Schools in this country, in the government system now are in dire straits in many cases. |
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Seeing local hospitals in dire straits, she convinced British drug manufacturers to donate medicine, which she later took to Russia. |
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Folk were in dire straits and because it was my home territory, I understood. |
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That leaves county schools in dire straits, with many already having to unravel established teaching practices. |
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The situation is most dire for primates such as bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas. |
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Critics were left to slink away with crestfallen faces, hoping no one would remember their dire predictions. |
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A dire first-half is followed by a dramatic second, with four great goals, a penalty claim, bookings aplenty and a goal disallowed for Japan. |
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Since we have all eaten dire cauliflower cheese, why not transform this comfort food with top-quality ingredients? |
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The opening half was a dire affair with the standard of hurling never rising above mediocrity. |
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Identification of special children and channelising them into the main stream has become a dire need. |
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You wouldn't see them at first, but sabertooth tigers, gigantic short-faced bears, and dire wolves prowl the land, stalking the grazers. |
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India suffers from a dire shortage of officers and delivery staff combined with a vast excess of clerks, messengers and chaprasis. |
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In any case, it is over-egging the pudding somewhat to suggest that last season was as dire as many may have suggested. |
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The second period wasn't dire in comparison to the first, but the game was in danger of dying a death after the interval. |
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Compared with this dire record, the success story of government policy has been all about Sure Start and early years. |
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Grimness, in its suggestion of a dire situation, of even a hopeless one, makes it pretty difficult to take issue. |
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If, by dire mischance, a mishap occurs, we can forget this entire conversation. |
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There's a dire need for redefining the constraints for both chambers of Parliament. |
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It's a dire time, and pragmatism beats out idealism in the face of what we're all up against. |
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Poor countries face chronic crises so dire that the world's sensibilities have been numbed to them. |
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Thousands of TV commercials go on their merry way, oblivious to dire circumstances outside the calculus of huckstering. |
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She landed safely in his, but that had not changed the dire circumstances of the moment. |
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I conducted a voir dire at the request of the accused to determine the origin of this information and further particulars. |
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Dear Sir, I know you will be surprised to read from me, but please consider this letter as a request from a family in dire need of assistance. |
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They truly were in dire straights, and the offer of peace was very tempting. |
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The situation is so dire that staff can't provide the most basic items to ensure people are comfortable. |
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The situation has become so dire that some of Bedfordshire's farmers are calling for the reintroduction of myxomatosis. |
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People are very reluctant to accept pay cuts, even when the company is in pretty dire straits. |
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The situation won't be nearly as dire if the astronauts manage to get their main oxygen generator working again. |
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The situation isn't so dire in Northeast Asia, especially in booming China. |
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Our Christmas dinner was immensely enjoyed by all, despite the dire shortage of drinks. |
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He also warned the government of dire consequences if the administration tried to stop either of the batches. |
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Discussion then moved on to other potential candidates in similar dire need of counselling. |
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Increasingly dire warnings suggest that the trendy toothfish has become too popular for its own good. |
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Inevitably, this prompted more dire warnings about dwindling jobs in the fishing industry yesterday. |
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Thus, the dire warnings offered by the commissioners were certainly not new to their audiences. |
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Liberal activists responded with dire warnings that America was in danger of being hijacked by the religious right. |
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The State Department has issued dire warnings with threats of tens of thousands of dollars in fines. |
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Some people have been making some pretty dire predictions about the depletion of oil reserves recently. |
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Even before the attacks, aid agencies issued dire warnings that Afghanistan was heading for disaster. |
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After considering the White House's latest policy proposals, some top economists are making very dire predictions indeed. |
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The figures at the top left and bottom right are dire wolves, extinct relatives of wolves and dogs. |
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In the Pleistocene, gray wolves shared the region with C. dirus, the dire wolf. |
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In times of dire national emergency the president must exercise prerogative power. |
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Could not one analogously argue that the Suspension Clause authorizes suspension in times of dire national emergency? |
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Between the hours of 9am and 6 pm these appliances will not be crewed unless a dire emergency arises. |
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Each week another dire e-commerce venture sinks vaingloriously beneath the mire. |
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Yeah, well it's kind of helped me through some pretty dire times of stress, like my 4th year at varsity. |
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Their solicitor confirmed this in his testimony in the voire dire proceedings. |
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His only purpose was to behave doltishly in dire circumstances to create tension. |
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Coupling feelings of doubt with low self-esteem leads to very dire consequences. |
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Above the chair, a disconnected IV drip further indicates a dire state of emergency. |
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Because your perceptions have been confined to a pinhole, and you have been in dire need of anything that will serve to broaden your horizons. |
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What it showed was a typical Saturday night, and the dominant theme was drink and its oft-times dire consequences. |
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The colonialist has a smug, secure sneer on his face, like a dire dare to retaliate. |
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The actual number of people living in dire poverty has remained roughly constant, at about 1.2 billion. |
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The United States bears a heavy responsibility for the continuance of this dire situation. |
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Despite the poor visibility, Earle and her fellow pond scum enthusiasts surfaced with no dire infections and a nice list of aquatic species. |
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At the root of the crisis is a deep angst over the dire state of domestic and European economic affairs. |
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The magazine has been in dire trouble before, though, so let's hope it somehow gets resurrected again. |
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Sure it's fun to get rigged up in some flapping strides and dance along to some dire disco every once in a while. |
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Chen also said the collision underlined the dire need for military confidence-building measures in the Taiwan Strait. |
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The resulting funding slowdown comes as Michigan schools are in dire need of repair. |
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Even with unwavering support from communities, most clubs are in dire straits. |
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He said any police intervention was likely to have a dire effect because some of the squatters were now armed with automatic firearms. |
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Now the man is sick and starving and in dire need of financial help for his upkeep. |
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Gorbachev's arrival as Soviet premier, however, had dire consequences for Bulgarian wine. |
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Foundation hospitals offering bonuses and higher pay could drain the NHS of desperately needed workers, making dire staffing shortages worse. |
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The dire performance from Country Casuals, which has 200 stores across the UK, prompted a profits warning from Austin Reed in July. |
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As if Argentina's energy problems were not dire enough, its travails have spilled over to other segments of the Southern Cone. |
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The fact that capitalist booms do not always collapse into dire slumps does not mean that they never do. |
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The team is in dire need of an experienced veteran to back him up and hopes to sign one before the regular season. |
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For a city built on chocolate, York seems to produce some dire confectionery. |
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Then, just as it seemed the prophets were predicting a dire season for Melrose, the Greenyards men produced arguably the best try of the game. |
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I threatened it with the same dire course of action and consequence I used to harbour towards people blowing vuvuzelas. |
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Neville says despite some flows down the river in the last 12 months, it's still in dire need of a good flush of water to pick the system up. |
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His dire predictions ignore the intricacies of diplomacy, foreign policy, and world history. |
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The imminent rain brought dire presages into his mind, making him shiver uncontrollably. |
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Since the birth of the Internet, in particular, we have heard dire assessments of the future of the book and the printed word. |
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Might the subsequent success of that project not give some grounds for doubting his dire prophecies? |
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I knew if we continued to roll until we were inverted, our situation would become dire. |
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Neglect of the physical constraints of holiness could be punished with the most dire consequences. |
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There are others though who, not only cannot do this, but are in fact in very dire circumstances. |
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And that's accepting the dire predictions about warming of the global warming alarmists, which I do not. |
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Fearing that these events will have dire ramifications for the rest of the world, the NSA send Sam in. |
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A sudden attack of viral encephalitis left him in a deep coma with a dire prognosis. |
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If the U.S. pushes too hard, Japan can threaten to repatriate the assets, leaving the U.S. economy in dire straits. |
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The movie is in dire need of some sass, not to mention a drop or two of genuine emotion. |
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They may be anti-fog, provide UVR protection and have a bendy flexy lens but they look dire for the money. |
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The parties have fought this election by issuing dire warnings, squabbling about details and calling each other names. |
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The organisation, founded two months ago, not only tries to help victims in dire straits, but also helps to arrange funerals for those killed. |
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There was no mention of the Government's dire warnings of the increasing financial burden of our ageing population. |
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Here's to dire warnings, unsubstantiated threats and looking over our shoulders. |
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Driving into the office he listened to the radio and heard dire warnings about increased security. |
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In the latter category is a piece about green potatoes, offering dire warnings against eating them. |
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In the margins other authors leave their marks, comments, and dire warnings. |
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For a country already stricken by fear of anthrax attacks, this dire warning could not do much more to concentrate their minds. |
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Ever more dire warnings of impending atrocities were appearing in the press from ' behind the scenes' sources. |
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He was obliged to hint delicately at the dire news to his invalid and still absent wife. |
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That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life. |
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Angling closer and slowing to a walk, he is shocked to see a trio of dire wolves foraging in the snow. |
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People take a long time to die, accompanied by the cracking of bone, the resistance of gristle, dire last-gasp gurgles and rattles. |
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It is in dire need of a new terminal and extended runway for international flights and wide-bodied aircraft. |
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Afterall, there was a shade of reassurance in the predictable, however dire that certain predictable may be. |
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Confessing her dire situation to a friend at a tea salon, Susan remains gloved and hatted, barely moving even the muscles in her face. |
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It is a dire coach company in the UK, to be avoided at all costs for their provision of uncomfortable seats and tardy services. |
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They are fleeing from the dire economic and social circumstances in their own lands to countries that offer them a better future. |
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In the final analysis, I think that it is the poor and misinformed parents who contribute to this dire plight. |
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In the light of this dire diagnosis, Baha'i believers feel that the only solution is to strengthen interfaith activities and dialogue. |
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It contained dire warnings about the impact on earth if global warming continues unchecked. |
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In this dire situation, she proves herself to be a courageous and determined fighter. |
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So it would be a dire mistake to allow, by default, jingoism to become synonymous with patriotism and the American spirit. |
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The military will be facing dire budget cuts that shake the military-industrial complex to its core. |
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Indeed, I muttered tuneless, dire ditties that I myself had composed. |
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The railways emerged in a parlous state, in dire need of a major overhaul. |
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Memories are fading about their dire predictions for mothers on welfare after the reforms of 1996, which were way off. |
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The elves considered themselves superior to the other two known races, humans and dwarves, and never would have told them what they knew, unless it was a dire emergency. |
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The commission argues that the fishery must be restricted since cod, in desperately dire straits, is caught as a so-called by-catch of the prawn fishery. |
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This will cause the hot oil to erupt with possible dire consequences. |
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Soon, the desperados ' concerns of how and when to split the gold pale in comparison to the dire need to simply survive the strange inhabitants of this haunted mansion. |
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Luckily, on the evidence of this dire Wednesday performance, he will spend a deal of the winter in Pakistan and will be unable to accept the offer. |
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Part of the problem is that the catalpa tree outside the bedroom window is in dire need of a trim but who knows if the apartment building will be doing that this year. |
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The report is a much more dire and ominous assessment of the situation than has previously been forwarded through official channels, this source said. |
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And there are other considerations-the value of the stolen property, the absence of any extenuating circumstances like dire need, or repentance and restoration of property. |
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The trust's dire financial position is being seen as the chief reason. |
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There is, from year to year, a sameness to the dire threats from Pyongyang. |
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There is a shortage of food, there is little aid, and they are in a dire situation. |
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Farmers are in dire straits and not far behind them are the road hauliers. |
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The former home of world-renowned novelist Elizabeth Gaskell in Plymouth Grove is another building which is in dire need of work due to subsidence and dry rot. |
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The fake sky went dark and he sang in a numb and dire auto-tune tenor. |
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But this year Buffett is deeply unsettled by the complex world of derivatives and the column inches devoted to his dire warning this week do not exaggerate his concern. |
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Even triggers that may be adjusted arrive from the factory with the adjustments sealed and accompanied by dire warnings about unauthorized tampering. |
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Our dire need is harmony, fraternity and solidarity among the people. |
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Of course it was a matter of some contention with Mother that I was using all of her hairspray to kill insects, so I reserved that weapon for dire circumstances. |
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Given the dire employment situation in the Detroit area, Moo Cluck Moo could easily have staffed up paying minimum wage. |
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We do not believe that the country would really be in dire straits if we extended leave provisions to casual workers, the low-paid, or young people. |
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The Food Bank provides one-time emergency grocery assistance to those in dire straits, as well as providing one hot meal a week for about a month. |
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Imagine the shame, the ignominy, the dire social consequences. |
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They all conglomerated in the skies like birds of a flock in such dire terror that they voluntarily drowned themselves in the deep waters of the Pacific. |
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In the 1840s, St Peter's School was in dire straits and about to close. |
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So far European economic policy has not been designed to act as a locomotive to take over the lead in the world economy and the Japanese economy is in dire straits. |
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Of course a possible variation of the tragic concept would allow a character to have a fault which leads to consequences far more dire than he deserves. |
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The Janjaweed have waged a brutal campaign to drive out African farmers and U.S. officials are calling the dire situation in Sudan the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. |
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The dire need for money is a constant concern for Lucy in the I Love Lucy plot lexicon, and this is one of the better examples of scheming gone sour. |
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Perhaps it is no coincidence that such dire statistics on childbearing were published in the wake of a flurry of government warnings about the falling birth rate. |
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As winter sets in, as many as 5 million face dire food shortages. |
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Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets. |
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Kim Jung-un clearly recognizes that Hollywood and American popular culture in general constitute a dire threat. |
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The walls were stained and the floor was in dire need of repair. |
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The working classes of thatcherite Britain were in dire need of a spokesperson to celebrate their wretchedness. |
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The situation in civil court was mixed, and dire in some states. |
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There is a dire need for the reactivation of community spirit. |
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Meanwhile, the eco-warriors of Greenpeace have issued dire warnings about looting at the Tuwaitha nuclear facility south-east of Baghdad over the past year. |
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American Express Platinum is superb in these dire straits and their concierge service is the gold standard. |
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But all it meant for him now was that he'd end up trapped in these horribly unpleasant dreamscapes, where strange dire men hawked cookware and arcane exercise devices. |
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As an army brat myself, I am proud of the achievements of our men and women in the armed services, who have saved us from dire threats to our liberty. |
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He continues his dire warnings of the inordinate amount of pestilence and death poised to descend on our pathetically unprepared continent the second we relax our vigilance. |
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Meanwhile, adventurous styling elsewhere in the market began to make Volvos look unappealingly out of step and old-fashioned, in dire need of visual updating. |
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She told him she and her comrades are in dire need of reinforcements and if they had equal numbers they could beat them. |
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Jazz helps sell millions of cups of coffee, but sales of jazz records are in dire need of a caffeine jolt. |
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As you can see from my photograph, I'm in dire need of a trim. |
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The handout paints a dire picture, but the qat users of Guangzhou are successful businessmen. |
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The same applies to the organs of evacuation which may become less efficient under the effect of the excessive demands made on them, with dire consequences to health. |
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It's what many landlords are doing, particularly those who choose to subvert the dire sales market and are renting out their homes, rather than selling them for a song. |
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A portion of their land was seized and sold to satisfy their creditors, and shortly thereafter they sold the rest of their land, apparently out of dire necessity. |
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For him, the Kirk is in dire need of reformation and reviving. |
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Simply citing the opinions of assorted scientists, even distinguished ones, counts for nothing if their dire predictions are not supported by observed evidence. |
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And despite dire warnings of certain columnists alluded to above, Americans by and large do not seem overly disquieted by contemporary French trends. |
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So, what happens if nothing in his training has replicated such a dire condition? |
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The results of that rash decision, the most dire of which has been the rise of ISIS, are now plain for us to see. |
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The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy. |
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It combined beautifully with the capers, although the mustard dressing was a little too insipid and in dire danger of being lost against the other pungent tastes. |
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Now, next time you find yourself stuck at a layover in dire need of a manicure, Essie will be there to help. |
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The 17-year-old struck up a bond with Zunni while he was Sansa's dire wolf, Lady, on set. |
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City may have been soaraway winners of the Championship last year, but they are in dire straights as they try to avoid an immediate return. |
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Cole repeated the dire warnings they had been making for years about the imminent death of capitalism, only now far more people paid attention. |
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Towards the end of the steam era, steam motive power was allowed to fall into a dire state of repair. |
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Beeching, who is thought to have been the author of most of the report, set out some dire figures. |
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The firm is in dire straits due to stagnating sales and the reorientation of the filling stations market. |
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Most Tories were strongly opposed, and made dire predictions dangerous radical proposals. |
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Since you've bought this book and intend to make a will, I won't badger you with dire warnings about what would happen if you die without a will. |
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The script is dire and the acting is hammier than a plate of Christmas leftovers. |
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However, the grey-tiled Creative Arts building has all the charm of a gents urinal and its timbered cladding is in dire need of some linseed oil. |
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Might this then be a bellwether tale about the rumored dire effects of overabsorption in new media? |
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Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock. |
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Players are in dire straights, trying to get their foot in the door at clubs and onto the playing field. |
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Perhaps it is applaudable if Mr Fox considers the economic threat so dire that he is willing to abandon political expediency for the common good. |
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If there has been a more dire half-hour's viewing on the box this year, I'll row a wee oary boat in front of the Largs-Millport ferry. |
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Liechtenstein was in dire financial straits following the end of the war in Europe. |
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But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents. |
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In May 1334, the situation looked dire for the house of Bruce and David II gained safety in France. |
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As a result, population numbers far outstripped the amount of available food and land, creating dire poverty and widespread hunger. |
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Relegation meant the club had dire financial problems, resulting in the sale of many of the club's experienced and talented players. |
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You see the village hall where we stage our charitable do-gooding is in dire need of repair and modernisation. |
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In 107 BC, shortly after being elected as Consul, Marius, fearing barbarian invasion, saw the dire need for an increase in troop numbers. |
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Because his new novel, The peripheral, is his most dire yet. |
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Some challenges are issued during voir dire while others are presented to the judge at the end of voir dire. |
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Well, plumpy is something Yemen is in dire need of, and it would not cost very much, relatively speaking, for them to get it. |
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How dire is the political situation for supporters of gun control? |
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And when Paulinho later tried to compensate for his team-mate's shitbaggery with a committed challenge, it ended in dire circumstances. |
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In addition to the fast dwindling resources, the acid rain is going to add to the dire situation. |
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They warned that the multi-billion dollar fishery faces a dire threat as bigeye tuna are down to 16 percent of their original level. |
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In the mists of time, yodelling was the way to communicate good news or dire warnings, pre-dating texting and tweeting by a few centuries. |
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Bethan Jones, defending, said the defendant was in dire straights financially. |
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Want to help out a family member who may be in dire straights, but don't feel comfortable making an outright gift? |
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The goal of our program is to help bars in dire straights, and to have access to superior solutions makes it a lot easier to achieve that goal. |
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She still lives in Leamington with her parents and dog Zunni who played her dire wolf Lady in the HBO series. |
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The user claims that there were cages for dire wolves on the huge set, but was unable to take pictures. |
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But the giant packs formed by dire wolves were organised to be able to kill some of these super-sized herbivores. |
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It will explain how bone-cracking dogs, dire wolves and saber-toothed tigers hunted hoofed animals. |
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In a dire emergency, universal donor blood could be obtained from the blood ban in ten minutes. |
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The fact that the odds are dire should spur us into creative action, not anesthetize us into further passivity. |
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Fears of dire consequences have been raised, some of which may seem overdramatized, to say the least. |
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It's a pity that those who fulminate against the protesters can't summon up the same fury for those who landed us in this dire mess. |
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I was hospitalized for one dire illness after another, often undiagnosable. |
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And which attorney relishes having to sit for hours while the voir dire is being conducted? |
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This edition has new methods and ways to ask voir dire questions and improved approaches to other phases of the trial. |
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Although the government has utilized grace periods, thus far they have honored their external obligations, even under dire circumstances. |
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Through a translator, several gay Iraqis spoke to The Advocate about the dire circumstances for gay people in their country. |
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Pleistocene dire wolves, gray wolves, and the current red wolf recovery effort will be presented. |
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Otherwise would we have inhaled un-tipped cigarettes of such dire strength that Extra Strong mints plus several squirts of Gold Spot couldn't deodourise our breath? |
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Salvation Army and other providers of foodbanks are now accepting donations of tampons and sanitary towels after an upsurge in women turning up in dire need. |
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Chen in late 2013 who took the gearstick at Blackberry when the company was in dire straits has spent the past year stabilizing the smartphone industry pioneer. |
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Inspite of this situation, data on card holders imply that consumers still rely on plastic money in times of dire need and for emergency expenditures. |
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On the downside, people working for printing presses are facing the dire consequences, as they haven't reaped gold this time during the election season. |
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Given the dire lack of experience and talent, it's no wonder institutions are left to the politically correct whim of the moment rather than rock-steady vision and focus. |
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Even before the revolution, Yemen's water situation had been described as increasingly dire by experts who worried that Yemen would be the first country to run out of water. |
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Bradford largely expanded into the city it is today during the 19th Century, due to jobs in the newly built textile mills attracting many immigrants in dire need of work. |
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A third-rate travelling show in financial dire straits, their manager is pinning all his hopes on Rosie, a new and seemingly untrainable elephant. |
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The family's financial situation eventually became so dire that Wollstonecraft's father compelled her to turn over money that she would have inherited at her maturity. |
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It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs. |
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The other, scholastic encyclopedism, was not yet in such dire straits. |
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About October 3, His Eminence called the deceased and informed him that it was necessary to sell the scrolls in a short span of time in order to get out of his dire straights. |
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They represent a promise to future generations of Central Americans, a promise of enduring peace and a reorientation of national priorities to meet dire social needs. |
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After rejection after applying for other benefits that I was advised to apply for by December, my situation was dire as I had not had any payment since mid-september. |
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Awsome for half an hour against Juventus, to dire against City. |
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Nutty professor Calvin Webber and his pregnant wife, Helen, are throwing a swinging cocktail party when JFK comes on television and informs the nation of the dire situation. |
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Making it worse is the fact that whenever the band forgets itself and goes into Dire Straits mode, his voice starts edging towards reediness. |
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My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits. |
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Dire consequences were predicted when, in 1971, Washington announced that it would no longer guarantee the convertibility of gold. |
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Dire circumstances gave social sanction to small scale corruption and spivs were simultaneously despised and admired as buccaneers. |
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The roarings of huge creatures are blossoms as are a miniature primate, a Dire wolf, and a jaguarundi crossing a trail by the ocean. |
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In 1988 he played with Dire Straits and Elton John at the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium and the Prince's Trust rock gala at the Royal Albert Hall. |
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