In his concentration on abstract processes and structures, they argued, Mommsen had left human agency – that of the perpetrators of nazism's dire crimes against humanity – largely out of the picture, and had gravely underestimated the importance of ideology.
Holden also rejected Trump's dire warnings about crime and the need for law and order.
Even then, it can take more than a year to revoke a liquor license if the threat to the public is not considered dire, like violent crime or drug dealing, Mr. Jones said.
Even since the economy began stalling several years ago, there have been dire warnings that crime would rise.
If you could put money on a word combo coming up empty on Google, one of the best bets would surely be "Dire Straits" and "hate crime".
The guiding principle is that murder (even manslaughter) will out, and the dire secret of the crime will squirm noisily around, leaving clues until its circumstances are discovered.
"I categorically accept full responsibility for my conduct," Mr. Smulian told Judge Scheindlin in court, apologizing for his crimes and citing what he described as the "magnitude, seriousness and the dire consequences of the crimes I have committed".
The country as a whole went terribly wrong in this area during the 1990s, when high-profile crimes prompted dire predictions of teenage "superpredators" taking over the streets.
If we are to change the dire situation revealed in annual crime statistics, there has to be an end to a culture of suspicion, denial and victim-blaming.
"No matter how you massage the figures, the picture that comes out of these crime statistics is pretty dire," the influential newspaper Business Day said.
