Sentence examples for dire ends from inspiring English sources

By the conclusion of "The Broken Heart," several of the principal characters have met dire ends, in at least one case literally from the titular calamity.

Apparently to bring the courtesan Giulietta's fate into line with the dire ends met by Olympia and Antonia, a new scenario provides for her death (she drinks poison intended for Nicklausse).

"If we don't have a proactive approach and go out there collectively and try and change things, it can be the dire end of the program or it can be a new beginning to getting things back to how they need to be". There are few certainties for a program hoping that its glory days are not merely in the past, but also ahead.

For several years now, observers have pointed out that if you have a global initiative on forests that has rewarding carbon storage and retention as its single goal, you run the risk of damaging forests in other ways - at its direst, ending up with monoculture plantations of carbon-absorbing trees where no bird or monkey is seen.

Realize that situations may be dire, but the ends do not justify the means.

This is why Khamenei, despite his dire need to end the sanctions and bring the nuclear issue to an end, does not want to normalize relations with the U.S. Any agreement with Iran over the nuclear issue also has to be able to resist, at least politically, a counter attack by the neo-conservatives and Israeli, Saudi Arabian and other despotic regimes in the Persian Gulf.

Needing to outscore Sebastian Vettel by eight points, Hamilton's Mercedes finished third on Sunday and Vettel recovered from a dire start to end up fourth.

He said: "Disrupting a child's schooling to satisfy an ideological obsession will have dire consequences and end up as a cap on both aspiration and opportunity.

He fought successfully to change Brazil's policy from outreach to hands-off protection after seeing the dire consequences of ending isolation.

But Daniel Patrick Moynihan and others had warned all along of the dire implications of ending the guarantee of federal help to the nation's poorest families.

That's a very small portion of grocers nationwide, but the shutdown's impact on SNAP beneficiaries will grow more dire at the end of February, when funding for the program expires.