Sentence examples for a dire condition from inspiring English sources

By the time a doctor arrived, Delpierre was in a dire condition.

Fashion group JD Sports said the turnaround of Blacks Leisure would hit profits this year as the outdoor clothing chain was in a dire condition.

Another Lagardère boy, Philippe Camus, was put in charge of this giant, much to the chagrin of Mr Forgeard.Now, just as Fiat is in a dire condition following Agnelli's withdrawal and eventual death, so Mr Lagardère's empire may find itself in trouble without its master swordsman.

But this strategy risks making Mr Poizner appear negative, especially if the polite and more issues-focused Mr Campbell is actually the one to beat.The race is receiving a lot of early attention because California, the world's eighth-largest economy and America's biggest, remains in a dire condition.

Fortunately, most people in need of a mental health day aren't in such a dire condition.

Lib Dem MP John Thurso, chair of the House of Commons Commission, said the Palace of Westminster was "really in a dire condition" and it was a "distinct possibility" that MPs and peers would have to move out while it was refurbished.

Much has been said and written of Tao Lin as either a forerunner or a hanger-on of the so-called New Sincerity, and reading Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy one can almost believe it: If you've ever experienced clinical depression--or a less dire condition, such as anomie, ennui, malaise, or just the eff-it-all attitude commonly associated with contemporary late juvenilia--Tao Lin is your Shakespeare.

Bush left behind an America in dire condition and with a degraded reputation.

The ungainly spectacle of a US state desperately seeking a supply of pharmaceutical in order to kill a man provides a snapshot of the dire condition of the death penalty in many of the 32 states that still practice it.

For an account of its dire condition at that time we are dependent on a soldier of the German occupying forces, Louis Schoberth, who had trained as an architect.

Brazil is short of established scientists, a legacy of the dire condition of its schools, even if these are now improving.