| The voyage took them over an often rough sea that direly tested the endurance of Oscar Pelletier, even with his background as a sailor. |
| Many a good comrade's fate is known to me, so far, by that direly comprehensive word, missing. |
| Armenia is no longer direly short of energy. But a coming oil bonanza in Azerbaijan will tilt the power-balance away from Armenia again. |
| At the outset of the PHBM, the Upper Mandrare Basin area was direly lacking in a whole range of basic social services. |
| It's one of those situations wherein the benefits of programs designed to assist the farm community, who direly need it, are accruing elsewhere. |
| There's no arguing with the fact that Africa direly needs social and economic development and better food security. |
