Sentence examples for dire deadlines from inspiring English sources
Such is the humble lot of composers in Hollywood: they enter the creative process late, they write on dire deadlines, and they grapple with all manner of vague or arbitrary demands.
But officials in Washington and traders on Wall Street have a second, yet more dire deadline in mind: Nov. 1.
United head into transfer deadline day looked in dire need of some of the midfield reinforcements they have been seeking after they were outplayed by the side who finished last season 28 points behind them.
The penalties for error or missed deadlines are known to be dire.
Would Stoneman take an interim GM post just one month before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline and the Angels in dire need of an offensive upgrade?
American Express's 10-Q quarterly report, which was filed Wednesday, included a new dire warning about the rapidly approaching year-end deadline.
This is important because the budget reporting on the "fiscal cliff" repeatedly asserted that the country and the economy faced dire consequences from not having a deal reached by this deadline.
I work from a home office and, after two days of meeting deadlines while tending a flu-infested teenager, who claimed to be in such dire straits that venturing from their bed for water was out of the question, I was ready to run shrieking into the void.
With national budgets under strain across Europe, officials from the seven countries involved have repeatedly missed past deadlines, prompting executives from Airbus and its parent company, European Aeronautic Defense and Space, to become increasingly dire in their predictions about the consequences of continued delay.
President Bush threatened Saddam Hussein in dire terms, if he did not fully disclose Iraq's inventory of weapons by the United Nations' deadline of Dec. 8.
With national budgets under strain across Europe, officials from the seven countries have repeatedly missed past deadlines for a deal — the most recent one on Jan . 31— prompting EADS executives to become increasingly dire in their predictions about the consequences of continued delay.
