Sentence examples for Dire predicament from inspiring English sources

"It's very deflating," Tom Gullikson, the United States captain, said of his team's dire predicament.

In Chad, the dire predicament of UN peacekeeping without western troops seemed to be turning.

With its deepening economic and political turmoil, Zimbabwe faces an even more dire predicament.

That they escaped from such a dire predicament just seemed to confirm that this must be India's tournament.

"I have struggled intermittently with the elbow for about four years but it never really manifested itself into a dire predicament for me," he said.

Given the children's dire predicament, stuck in the slum wastelands, charities question why the UK government is not fulfilling its commitment to helping them.

Such organizations tend to be deeply principled and forward-focused, and so are far less likely to find themselves in dire predicaments.

DeWitt seems to be fond of rescuing his characters from dire predicaments by means of convenient expedients, like gunmen falling out of trees, but is this parody or laziness?

The Boston Globe has analyzed its own dire predicament--wherein its parent company, the New York Times, is threatening to close it unless Globe workers kick back $20 million--in a generous fashion.

IS THAILAND'S government at last getting serious about tackling its dire financial predicament?

He has signaled his regrets – particularly, he told reporters in Minnesota this week that he had focused too much on Iowa – but he said that he could not have proceeded given his dire financial predicament.