Sentence examples for dire a situation from inspiring English sources

Representative Greg Walden, an Oregon Republican who supported the bailout, said lawmakers may quickly discover "whether this is as dire a situation as we were told".

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Much like the Giants, the Cardinals have a passionate — and loyal — base of fans, many of whom are not afraid to put down money on their team regardless of how dire a situation might seem.

With the lake gate sealed, failure of the 17th Street canal walls – so important in the last disaster — would not have been as dire a situation as it was in 2005, when the canal became an open conduit for Lake Pontchartrain to spill deep into the city.

Until the world's oil producers allow third-party audits of the flow rates of the world's largest oil fields, which they have so far been reluctant to do, it is impossible to know just how dire a situation we are in.

The local paper, The Groesbeck Journal, ends virtually every water-related article with the admonition "Continue to pray for rain!" Other cities in Limestone County do not face as dire a situation as Groesbeck, the county seat, because they rely on different sources of water, like groundwater wells.

In any other sport, there's a chance that a former champion in a such a dire situation would disappear.

It's a dire situation,' says a former senior executive".

The element of making a "comeback" from a dire situation was applied to the planet as well.

Many were just trying to make progress in a dire situation, and survive a disaster with not much immediate help.

That was not an insult to James, either -- just a realistic assessment of a dire situation in Ohio.