Sentence examples for dire crises from inspiring English sources

Coates's frustration is understandable — many African American communities continue to face dire crises — but his argument is limiting and, more problematically, it doesn't begin to hint at any sort of resolution.

The program has already been used in some of the most dire crises worldwide — including in the recent hurricane Harvey and Irma disasters hitting the United States.

The Rancho Santa Fe Republican said the most dire crises facing California — poverty, homelessness and the lack of affordable housing — all developed on the watch of Democrats, who control the governor's office and Legislature.

Davis faced a dire crisis.

"This is a dire crisis," McCain said.

The scrappy 65-year-old company has seldom faced such a dire crisis.

"Having the data means that we can think sensibly about how to address this dire crisis," the judge said.

But as an isolated island with no power and little communication, it is experiencing a dire crisis.

Some associates of Mr. Abbas held out the hope that, by provoking what Palestinian politicians called a dire crisis within the leadership, he would revive a peace plan that they said was all but dead already.

That is, the poverty is severe, problems with hunger and food are severe as well, and they talked about how the number of people who were right on this edge of emergency, right on the edge of dire crisis, had doubled in only two years.

In response to the turmoil at the News Corporation, which decided on Thursday to shut down one of its British tabloid newspapers, News of the World, amid a phone hacking scandal, here's an imagined letter from a concerned shareholder to the company's independent board members: You have a pivotal role in taking control of the dire crisis facing our company.