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The Socialist Jean-Marc Ayrault said Sarkozy's record had been dire on jobs, with a million more unemployed since he took office, 8.5 million living below the poverty line and a level of youth unemployment of 20%.

While Tribune's situation has been difficult in Los Angeles, it has been dire on Long Island, where the effects of a circulation scandal at Newsday are still being felt.

The consequences would be dire for international development cooperation – and, on current proposals, for the UN development system, too.

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The opening exchanges were dire, but on the half-hour Steve Wicks denied Aldridge a scoring opportunity with a last-ditch challenge.

And the budgetary consequences of surrender could be dire: give way on this, and you leave the impression that the government can be leaned on by all and sundry.By contrast, Mr Brown should jettison his insistence on increasing the time for which terrorist suspects may be held without charge from 28 to 42 days.

"Their humanitarian and health situation is dire," he explained on the phone.

But while Syrians in the opposition agree the military situation is dire, they disagree on whether they want more muhajireen ("migrants," or foreign fighters) — and whether those fighters are even interested in joining factions other than the Islamic State (IS).

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] case against warSIR – Everything you say about Saddam Hussein is undeniable but surely the only justifiable reason for a pre-emptive attack by one country on another is dire and imminent threat ("The case for war", August 3rd).

The inflationary effect of injecting $1 billion into the economy could be dire; ditto the impact on the tumbling bolivar of treating foreign reserves as if they were the government's piggy-bank.

The news from the United Nations on the likely impacts of climate change is dire, especially for the poorest people on the planet.