Sentence examples for dire estimate from inspiring English sources

The dire estimate offered Wednesday by federal officials brings the loss of trees since 2010 to at least 66 million, a number that is expected to increase considerably throughout the year, despite an average winter of rain and snow that brought some relief to urban Californians.

Now gloom is a growth industry, and such dire estimates are commonplace.

Others also offer dire estimates, although the dollar amounts are difficult to verify or compare because the definitions of loss vary so broadly.

The White House responded vigorously to the assertions on Wednesday, saying it never concealed its most dire estimates of the spill and quickly threw everything the government had at the problem.

The risk is that by the time the two countries re-engage, North Korea could have six or eight more weapons, according to the most dire estimates in the C.I.A. and the Defense Intelligence Agency, a view that more cautious intelligence analysts say is based more on conjecture about the North's engineering skills than any real intelligence.

Another of the paper's authors, Randi Rollins, says their dire estimates are quite conservative.

The desire to return home and the Iraqi government's emphasis that civilians should not flee means displacement may be more localized and temporary than some of the U.N.'s more dire estimates, Rise Foundation's Robinson predicts.

This is fair: the average value of an education to the recipient exceeds the direst estimates of the fees involved.

The World Bank says about 1.7 million people work in Bali, and according to the direst estimates, as many as half could become unemployed if the tourism continues to slump.

New and direr estimates of losses amassed by the country's biggest banks, many of which are now being borne by beleaguered taxpayers, have put the bond markets on edge.

To reconstruct all human tissues, in vitro would be a formidable task today, and toxicological testing on all separate tissue models would put even the direst estimates of animal use in a temporally and economically favorable light.