Sentence examples for dire attention from inspiring English sources

But why aren't these other trouble spots given the same dire attention, the same rejoinder that we all must do something, as with Darfur?

What's fundamentally wrong here is the notion that we feel we need to broadcast this piece of news to the world in a lousy method of attempting to bring dire attention to oneself.

Suicide and depression rates have dramatically increased in young populations within the past 30 years, and can be linked not to a decline in access to mental health services (although this is an issue that needs dire attention), but to a newly emerging and distorted perception of what "good" mental health means.

There are also federal programs in dire need of attention.

With so many of the city's schools in such dire need of attention, why did he meddle with perfection?

And as shopping malls and automobiles continue to drive retail into a suburban no-man's-land, our civic centers are in dire need of attention.

Tangherlini said he was in favor of the extension but also felt that older parts of the subway were in dire need of attention.

Frédéric says that his mother had a dire need for attention and, on the rare occasions that he saw her, she would feign being deathly ill and make him run to get help.

Yet the inability to get on in life is a now a major and growing problem for middle-class children and this group is in dire need of attention, it is expected to report.

In September, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology declared the problem of antibiotic resistance has become "dire," requires "urgent attention," is growing at an "alarming rate" and threatens medicine, economic growth, public health, agriculture and national security.

Now, yet more evidence that children's health is in dire need of attention: A new study released today shows that almost a quarter of teens have diabetes or prediabetes.