Sentence examples for dire competition from inspiring English sources

The owners have said, well, we can't seem to convince you at the bargaining table that we are suffering from a dire competition gap so we'll have to deal with the problem in the only way we probably don't need the consent of the union.

The result was a dire lack of competition, especially in humdrum services for the humble.

Using Channel 4's house formula for an endless number of documentaries – background music of jaunty strings, deadpan narration and interviews that edit out everything but moronic statements – the first episode followed a dire Gypsy beauty competition in Manchester and an ultra-kitsch wedding in Ireland.

Mind you, it wasn't hard to accomplish because the new competition was dire.

The fall of Fopp follows a string of closures and dire trading figures as competition from supermarkets and the web grows.

On grand final Saturday, only Avant Garde and Dire Wolves remained in competition.

Free Press paints a dire picture of a world where TV Everywhere thwarts competition from online video by denying online services access to their content.

A dire shortage of health workers means there is not much competition for these men and women who live in the communities they treat.

None of us had any money--pretty broke, in dire straits--and then we got wrapped up in the Rolling Stone competition that had unsigned bands from all over the continent.

He says: "There is a dire need to put the ICANN house in order and subject it to competition from other actors that are able to prove defend user interests in a way that ICANN has failed".

But the national focus seems to be, invariably, on the dire statistics coming out of the most selective colleges, the ones with such high competition that even the most deserving student is not likely to garner an acceptance.