The phrase "avoid dire" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to steer clear of serious or urgent situations or consequences.
Example: "To ensure a smooth project, we must avoid dire circumstances that could jeopardize our timeline."
Alternatives: "prevent serious" or "steer clear of critical".
But they need to go down much further and faster to avoid dire consequences.
Economic policymakers work to stabilize global financial markets and say Congress must act quickly on a proposed bailout plan to avoid dire consequences for the U.S. economy.
If we want to avoid dire consequences, we need to find the political will to reduce the growth in energy consumption to zero -- or even begin to consume less.
"Political, economic, social and security challenges" require united action "by all parties" to avoid "dire consequences that affect the steadiness and stability of the homeland," General Sisi said in an address to military cadets that was later relayed as a public statement from his spokesman.
While she and Mr. Vos acknowledged the news reports on progress in the debt-reduction negotiations between the White House and Congressional Republicans to avoid dire automatic tax increases and spending cuts that would take effect in January, what has been called the fiscal cliff, they erred on the side of assuming the worst.
Through smart compromises and negotiations, it managed to avoid dire consequences for its business, but it might not be so lucky next time.
He also said that today's restrictions were needed to avoid more dire cutbacks.
In those clashes, the president urgently sought to reach last-minute deals with Republicans to avoid the dire fiscal and economic consequences of an impasse.
I have written to the chancellor to express my concerns and offer my suggestions of how the government can avoid these dire consequences for a part of our country which already suffers some of the greatest deprivation in the UK.
Last year's consensus report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned the world has about a dozen years to address global warming to avoid its dire effects.
How to avoid this dire result?
