Sentence examples for dire environment from inspiring English sources

What gives me hope is that despite this dire environment, young people remain more optimistic than anyone else.

The government says he stoked ethnic discord with false reports; human-rights groups say the state is cracking down harder in an already dire environment.

"The dire environment that we've been in has changed the culture of this company," Mr. Sadove said in a conference call.

Highlighting the dire environment that Japanese companies face, Elpida Memory, the country's largest maker of computer memory chips, said in a preliminary statement before its full results May 12 that it had a net loss of.

It doesn't hurt that the company beat estimates for the last four consecutive quarters, despite the dire environment.

A proposed airport that would have dire environment effects on Everglades National Park became the center of a battle that helped to initiate the environmental movement into local and national politics.

At first glance, Washington, D.C., doesn't look like one of the most dire environments.

This, combined with the dire economic environment, has reduced earnings and so squeezed bonus pools.

But in the current dire economic environment, it's better to raise money before it's needed.

In the context of a dire economic environment for the arts, it is not hard to see why a museum with a populist message and bright fiscal prospects might gain an early lead.

Yet if his father's "fearless skepticism" was his gift to young Salman and his three sisters, a dire home environment was his curse, for Anis Rushdie was so wrathful an alcoholic that Salman's mother admitted she survived the marriage by developing a "forgettery" instead of a memory.