Sentence examples for By dire from inspiring English sources

The company's financial position was stretched by dire trading.

Economic activity in the US and Japan will be unimpressive, hampered by dire fiscal positions.

Maudlin soft-rock ballad So Far Away by Dire Straits was most effective.

He has also shown himself to be unmoved by dire pleas of creditors.

Soon enough, the Dean backlash commenced, heralded by dire emanations from the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, the wellspring of Clintonism.

The decision by Haitian parents to turn their children over to orphanages is motivated by dire poverty.

The protests have been inspired by mass unrest in Egypt and driven by the dire living conditions millions of Iraqis experience, our correspondent adds.

Some Conservatives have been infuriated by the dire warnings about the consequences of Brexit, orchestrated by Downing Street.

Universities are mediocre and overcrowded, even by the dire standards of continental Europe.

They are being forced into the market by the dire events back home.

Around the Yankees, this is mostly accomplished by forecasting dire consequences for every imaginable obstacle.