"dire challenges" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It refers to extremely difficult or serious problems or obstacles. Example: "The country faced dire challenges such as widespread poverty and political instability."
Girls in our community face various dire challenges.
Ending debate on needed immigration reform won't eliminate the dire challenges confronting Central Americans.
Still, at the time he pledged to "push our president and the country's policy makers to address the dire challenges arising from our unsustainable debt structure and increasing lack of global competitiveness".
The canceling of Clarreo and other climate missions would damage our ability to study global warming for decades, hobbling our capacity to prepare for its dire challenges — and infecting the whole of America's scientific enterprise.
Being on the cusp of adulthood while the news is plagued with headlines about mass youth unemployment, escalating house prices and the spiralling age for pensions, we should be filled with dread about our futures, but growing up as part of a liberal generation that has witnessed so much change, I'm optimistic about our ability to find solutions to the dire challenges ahead of us.
One of dire challenges we confronted with is the nonrepeatability of device fabrication.
We've faced the dire challenge that would have destroyed a lot of teams and we've come through it.
In many areas, the flood of refugees has raised sectarian and ethnic tensions and presented a dire challenge that governments are struggling to meet.
In 2009, a commission warned that global warming posed "a new and potentially dire challenge for which the M.T.A. system is largely unprepared".
There are few examples of perseverance and triumph in rap as pronounced as Phife's, even before a bout with diabetes left him facing a much more dire challenge.
"Climate change is a dire challenge facing California and our nation," said Paulson in a statement accompanying the release of the report.
