Sentence examples for dire costs from inspiring English sources

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.

Given how much philosophers usually disagree, it is remarkable that, when a medical intervention is risky, controversial, value-laden, high-impact and/or physically invasive, especially when a patient of sound mind explicitly refuses the intervention, most of us would feel that only the most dire costs would justify imposition of care.

Given the dire costs of the climate crisis that both the United States and the WTO have acknowledged, it is imperative that all governments have the ability to develop the renewable energy industries necessary to fight climate disruption.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It also came with dire environmental costs: biodiversity loss, pollution, soil damage and water stress.

[A1.] Dire Heating Cost Forecast Spurs Consumer Action People who have been stunned by predictions of the skyrocketing cost of natural gas this winter are taking actions ranging from procuring alternative fuel sources to tightening their budgets.