Sentence examples for dire example of from inspiring English sources

What they've just experienced is a dire example of what is euphemistically called "a senior moment".

Indeed, saying that the story haunted her, Mrs. Clinton repeatedly offered it as a dire example of a broken health care system.

There are precedents for this – my comment in the introductory paragraph that SF-nal experimentation usually does not have consequences is defied by the whole phenomenon of L Ron Hubbard, in which a particularly dire example of genre fiction has jacked into the wish-fulfilment fantasies of Generation X and spawned the Scientology movement.

Eventually, episodes of spongy-brain disease on mink farms and the dire example of the British disaster with mad cow disease prompted the FDA to ban meat and bone meal from rations of grazing livestock in the U.S. in 1997.

The multi-billion-dollar manned space station (allegedly international, but in practice an American enterprise) is an operation looking for a mission.The truth will outCompared with these dire examples of waste and destruction, Dr Hwang's mistake looks relatively modest.

She cites a dire example, the Irish potato famine of the late 1840's.

Such economic consequences to nations that help or hinder us in the U.N. this week do not compare to the human-rights benefits to millions of Iraqis liberated from oppression and to Arabs from Cairo to Gaza in dire need of an example of freedom.

Here's just one example of how dire this problem is.

Miles quotes him recalling, in a nice example of his gloatingly dire adjectival style, "During the summer months the smell of shit and coal gas permeated the city, bubbling up from the river's murky depths to cover the oily iridescent surface with miasmal mists".

The example of Egypt provided a particularly dire warning.

I hope they saw, in the dire straits that we found ourselves in, an example of grit and determination.