Sentence examples for dire battle from inspiring English sources

Toddler Noah's cryptic construction out of household objects; Poppy's chorus of "Poo bum"; Rose's all-seeing antenna eyeballs, one in her sibylline mouth; Toby's "Fuck you", all voice the child's dire battle for survival.

- The Thunder and the Heat, in dire battle, are turning in a hell of an NBA Finals.

While hardly a sea change in the fight against ISIS, it was a significant reversal in the dire and persistent battle that has become a focal point in the operation.

At a news conference here, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Turkey's foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said that with the situation in Syria growing more dire — as the battle for Aleppo continues to rage — it was time to create a nerve center for information sharing and planning.

Most of all, the humble suit of underwear highlights the Civil War soldier himself: his endurance and fortitude, his ability to make do with whatever conditions and supplies came along and his sense of humor, which pervades even the most dire accounts of battle and camp life.

Successive Indonesian governments, in more dire financial straits, battled long and publicly with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the conditions of its loans.

Despite the dire circumstances, Kelly battled through extensive physical/occupational therapy and recovered, determined to see past what she had experienced and to focus on what she could make of the future; namely taking care of her son and creating a thriving and unique real estate company.

Mark Knopfler, for example, who once wrote a Dire Straits song about the Battle of Orgreave from the point of view of the miners.

where Washington was immediately informed of the dire situation after the initial battle.

The state's $11.5 billion deficit and its dire fiscal situation set off the battle that led to the veto-override showdown, with the two sides disagreeing on how to bridge the shortfall.

Screens switched from first-person to cockpit views, and then the famed Millennium Falcon arrived just as the battle was at its most dire. .