Sentence examples for dire contest from inspiring English sources
Scattered in the woods around Huelva was another set of losers in the dire contest for farm jobs: hundreds of migrant day laborers living in improvised shelters, with no sanitation and, mostly, no work.
Gyan's goal lit up what had been a dire contest on a bobbly surface in Mongomo.
In the previous four byelections Labour suffered dire results: The Glasgow East contest, triggered last July when Labour's David Marshall stood down due to ill health, saw the party beaten into second place by the SNP's John Mason, who overturned Labour's 13,507 majority with a 26.1% increase in its share of the vote.
In the first round in Parma, Berlusconi's party won a meagre 4.7%, in one of many dire performances in the hundreds of contests held up and down the country.
Miliband, suffering dire personal polls, said he relished the coming contest with Cameron: "If they want to have a debate about leadership and character – be my guest.
The world's system for fighting the direst cases of mass hunger should not rest on a global sympathy contest umpired by television cameras.
With the U.S. general election being the direst struggle between these forces, the choice could not be a starker contest between populism and pluralism embodied respectively by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
But contesting the tenets of string theory is an academic exercise; denying the serious warnings about climate change has dire practical consequences.
