Sentence examples for a very dire from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately I think it's going through a very dire phase at the moment.

"Every state has to solve this problem or else there's going to be a very dire consequence".

Only in a very dire situation in which Iran has a nuclear weapon and is being confrontational, could you imagine something like this.

Mr Serwotka said: "If this had happened two years down the line once the government had axed jobs we would be looking at a very dire situation".

To them, it's very clear that Syria is in a very dire situation, the war has been going on almost two years, and tens of thousands of civilians have been killed and many houses have been destroyed.

A hostage has described hearing Man Haron Monis order someone to their knees and then "a very dire, sad, frightened last cry for help" before Tori Johnson was shot in the final minutes of the Lindt cafe siege.

Opening a backdoor can have very dire consequences".

The voice was "absolutely fearful … a this is it, very dire, sad, frightened last cry for help," she said.

"There was a child protection crisis in Haiti before the earthquake," says Susan Bissell, a child protection official for Unicef, "so in fact what's happened with the earthquake is you've just sort of put a magnifying glass on a situation that was already very dire".

Opening a back door can have very dire consequences".

And Mr Cossiga who holds the balance of power said on October 15th that an election "would be a crime", as the country is in "very dire conditions".Politically, that is true.