Sentence examples for dire act from inspiring English sources

He predicts that some day the government will block capital exports and to protect your holdings against this dire act.

The prized "dead cat" strategy – distracting us with a single dire act while everything else falls out of focus – is in play.

We know that jealousy can drive people to dire acts.

Currently our monuments step away from the possibility of discussing complex societal issues; we lose the story of the dire acts, which allows for no study of the circumstances that caused them.

Often the desperate acts reflect the dire situation of middle-aged workers who find themselves abruptly without jobs in a country still poorly prepared to deal with unemployment.

In the words of Senator Barbra Boxer, "If we don't act, the dire situation of undocumented immigrants will only get worse, families will continue to be torn apart, people will continue to live in the shadows..

We feel they are good human beings who were forced into criminal acts by dire life circumstances – and that, given the opportunity, they will surely rise to the occasion.

David Kern, its chief economist, said: "The outlook is dire, and the MPC must act forcefully.

"The government must act immediately otherwise dire consequences and an environmental catastrophe will be inevitable," he said.

The city plan, which draws on the work of climatologists, warns that the failure to act will produce dire consequences.

He has defended the move by saying the problems facing France's youth are so dire that he needed to act quickly.