Sentence examples for dire decline from inspiring English sources

Many of us hoped that Barack Obama's election would redress the dire decline in our collective ethic.

Consider, too, the recent record of the party which laughably still calls itself Conservative: David Cameron and George Osborne's claims that there is a "global race" which can somehow be definitively either won or lost, their blithe return to fiscal dogma that was discredited in the 1930s – and, come to think of it, the dire decline of public libraries that has happened on their watch.

Congress' preoccupation of late with the fate of the Big Three automakers has masked a far more pervasive and potentially dire decline in the nation's industrial sector, whose workers' earnings are the underpinnings of a thriving middle class.

The economy, though dire and declining, is no longer in headlong collapse.

As the cheery Brits insisted that the glass was more than half full and the gloomy central and eastern Europeans painted a dire picture of decline, each side fell into a national stereotype.

Choice paintings, drawings, miniatures on ivory, and lithographs represent the final — though, in respect to dire genius, scarcely declining — years of the last Old Master and first modern artist, who died in 1828 at the age of eighty-two.

Raimondi explained that the sea stars' decline has dire consequences for the ocean's biodiversity.

Despite dire predictions of denominational decline, the assembly chose not to act out of fear but out of hope.

And the disruptions to the environment go well beyond invasive creatures, like the dire reports this summer of drastic declines, probably because of higher temperatures, in the ocean phytoplanktonthat support much of the life on earth.

Rubio paints a dire picture of a declining America, before arguing that he has the skills to right the nation's course.

Leaders cited the company's dire financial condition, including declining box-office receipts and the lack of a major donation that could sustain operations.