Sentence examples for a dire effort from inspiring English sources

Stoute has never won the Arc and Workforce, 5-1 third favourite and a seven-length winner of the Derby, would be a strong contender if in peak form, but the colt turned in a dire effort in the King George and has not been seen in public since.

"We believe there is a dire attempt to hinder efforts of the constitutional assembly because its success would mean that we are on the right track, that the democracy is working and government is changing," Asem said.

The thought crosses your mind whenever you hear yet another dire effort, such as a pensions company riffing on the word "power".

"The volunteers of the Red Cross and the Committee of Health Aid were brave young people committed to the dire effort of controlling the spread of an epidemic.

But at this point, even that dire effort likely wouldn't be enough to save their agenda.

By early Saturday, with predictions for Katrina becoming increasingly dire, Blanco had launched a desperate effort to persuade New Orleanians to evacuate ahead of the storm, memos show.

The need is dire: efforts to shift the national diet have failed, because education alone is no match for marketing dollars that push the very foods that are the worst for us.

I reached saturation point with Barnyard, a dire farm-based effort which featured a bull with udders, when I made my eldest cry by complaining to the Odeon's blameless manager.

While there is a sense that this year's troop buildup in Iraq has turned around a dire situation, the effort in Afghanistan has begun to drift, at best, officials said.

These changes had a dire effect.

Conservationists say the emissions from burning up to 60m tonnes of coal a year would have a dire impact on efforts to limit global warming.