Sentence examples for dire and lasting from inspiring English sources
Mr Campbell may speak from the heart when describing his pride and sense of privilege to have played a part in events, but he does not face up to the dire and lasting consequences of those events for the Labour party, for Britain's standing and for too many Iraqis.
Most academics agree that the first round of printing money was a success - it was big enough, and lasted long enough, that it almost certainly prevented a more dire economic situation.
New Kids on the Block In 1990, at the peak of New Kids mania, the Boston boy band got their own cartoon – so dire it lasted just one season and disappeared from the schedules, even as a repeat, by 1993.
Whether love wrought under dire circumstances lasts once those constraints are removed is an entirely different matter.
For campers at festivals from Coachella to Glastonbury, going three days without showering can prove to be a mild annoyance in the midst of dust-caked clothes and un-deodorized armpits, but for refugees overseas, the lack of such basic hygiene stations is a dire reality that lasts far beyond a long weekend.
With each new model of global warming more dire and fast-acting than the last, the idea of a series not only about the North Dakota oil boom, but about fracking specifically seems a strange one.
"First, the crisis won't last, so it will seem less dire and less hopeless with time.
Finally, here's the posthumous 12-song result produced by Mr. Turner: "Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings," your basic outlaw-country mix of dire and tenderhearted songs for sports bars and campfires.
Chinese officials have made lots of anti-corruption noise over the last few years, even as graft has spread like a cancer through society, but Mr. Xi's anti-corruption rhetoric is more dire and aggressive.
