Sentence examples for A dire necessity from inspiring English sources

But nowadays – unless you choose politics – there isn't a dire necessity to get into London.

Reza always resolves to make their job easier – use no more than four characters and confine the action to a single set, a godsend for anybody running a theatre, and a dire necessity for regional venues.

Madrid understandably suspects that this cease-fire simply makes a virtue out of a dire necessity — the group may be almost incapable of carrying out effective attacks at the moment.

I will never forget a late-night conversation I had seven years ago, around the table of a modest kitchen in a small town in southern Poland, when an impressively inebriated man — a distant relative — implored me with tear-filled eyes to get the message to Obama, as quickly as possible, that a missile shield pointed east, at Moscow, was a dire necessity.

She can describe dividedness but seems not to suffer from it herself: "It is possible to see a dire necessity for change and fear it so greatly that one runs to give oneself to the father figure who will forbid one to act".

Impeachment is almost becoming a dire necessity.

You make a virtue of this dire necessity.Moreover, the statist model that you so readily dismiss has in fact created mighty global companies, such as Électricité de France, which distributes a large chunk of Britain's energy and is the lead developer in the new Hinkley Point nuclear power station.

A chameleon wrestles his conscience after dire necessity forces him to misuse a pair of underpants.

Until the leaders of both of our major political parties accept the need for a long-term solution and the dire necessity for compromise on the way we make that policy, you're absolutely dead on that our institutions are entirely incompetent to prevent global disaster.

Connor, actually "Until the leaders of both of our major political parties accept the need for a long-term solution and the dire necessity for compromise on the way we make that policy" is one proof that I'm absolutely correct to conclude something similar to what you said "our institutions are incompetent to prevent global disaster" today.

But it was with Tony Blair that the argument for moving from industry to services shifted from one of dire necessity to being an altogether more optimistic vision about Britain's place in the world.