Sentence examples for are very dire from inspiring English sources

TONIGHT: But Mr President, if I may, the predictions about global warming - and I hear what you say - are very dire.

I have also worked with prison officials in Burundi, in terms of capacity training on handling prisoners because Burundi is one country in which the prison conditions are very dire and the rights of prisoners are not recognized.

"The coming lean years promise to be very dire indeed".

"The language [the department] is using is very dire.

"The situation is very dire," Mr. Hayes said.

"The circumstances in Queensland continue to be very dire indeed," she told reporters.

"The situation is very dire, very difficult," Mr. Ban said of the bitter fighting, in which roughly 60,000 people have died.

"The circumstances in Queensland continue to be very dire indeed," Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in Canberra as she pledged military assistance to the region.

"It has to be spread over a period of time otherwise the social consequences would be very dire," said Amin. "As you succeed in raising the income of the poor, you [can] reduce the subsidy".

"Sakurai's outlook on the games is very dire.

Speaking to the BBC, Unicef Regional Director Manuel Fontaine said that the situation in the country was "very dire... and very desperate".