Sentence examples for dire cost from inspiring English sources

But, as Joseph Holliday, a Syria analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, points out, what gets lost in these calculations is the potentially dire cost of doing nothing.

Rather, it is important as a way for the United States to assert that it stands not with the supporters of Greater Israel but with what the writer Bernard Avishai calls "Global Israel," the constituencies that accept the moral necessity of a Palestinian state and understand the dire cost of Israeli isolation.

No one who was in London on July 7 , 2005 will easily forget the stunned silences, the anguish of the survivors, the stoic legions on the streets after the subways and buses stopped running, the fear that Britain's military campaigns at America's shoulder had brought home a dire cost in human lives.

Re "Drug Scarcity's Dire Cost, and Some Ways to Cope" (The Consumer, Dec. 13): In a free market, another manufacturer could step in to take advantage of the unavailability of the cancer drug Doxil and other lifesaving drugs that are in short supply.

She began with 1999's No Logo, which examined the way companies like Nike and GAP had cannibalized youth culture at a dire cost to foreign workers.

She began with 1999's No Logo, which examined the way companies like Nike and GAP had cannibalised youth culture at a dire cost to foreign workers.

Wounded by accusations that he was a racist despite his passionate interest in the dire costs of poverty and racial injustice, Moynihan was touched by the few liberals who stood up to defend him.

"It is clear to us that based on the board's announcement today, its true purpose is to entrench itself and management, quite possibly at dire costs to shareholders, Norton, employees and Worcester," Mr. Cahill said.