Sentence examples for dire context from inspiring English sources

Despite the dire context of these works, they even prove to be quite beautiful.

This is the dire context in which many, like NASA's Dr. James Hansen, assert that excavating the Alberta Tar Sands for the Keystone XL pipeline will be a "game over" for the climate, propelling humanity into a terminal and irreversible crisis.

Near the end, the score, by Dennis Ferrer and Raphael Xavier, seems to include panting, a dire sound in the context.

Some educators said yesterday that in the context of dire budget cuts, charter schools serve such a tiny portion of the city's schoolchildren as to constitute a special interest lobby.

It is also a challenge to have functioning good quality EmOC facilities close to the community, when communities live in contexts of dire poverty with little basic infrastructure (to support EmOC).

In the context of a dire economic environment for the arts, it is not hard to see why a museum with a populist message and bright fiscal prospects might gain an early lead.

In the context of a dire game, West Ham's opener was as unexpected as it was welcome for the neutral.

I called up Noah Feldman, a legal historian at Harvard Law School, for some context on the dire state of criminal justice in America.

"Revenues increased even in a period when the financial context was more than dire," Infantino said.

Christopher Gunness, a spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides aid to Palestinian refugees, said, "This situation in Gaza is dire and the continued closures, in the context of closures since June, only makes the situation of people of Gaza more perilous".

Opponents counter that attorneys cannot always ferret out actionable evidence of juror bias, particularly in the context of a limited voir dire.