I thought the game would be more dire in terms of 10-man rugby but it's not.
While less dire in terms of physical suffering, the fate of Nineveh's Christians is equally bleak: the Chaldean diocese in Irbil said that just 30-35 Chremained remained in the town of Qaraqosh that until Thursday was home to 50,000 – the largest Christian urban centre in Iraq.
Respondent 061803: if we'd had greater continuity of management and more resources available to us in the first place instead of having to fight for each and every project, whilst we had two or three reasonable years the last two years have been fairly dire in terms of resource because of the situation we are in financially.
"Hollywood is in a dire situation in terms of gender disparities and the industry has been pretty much getting away with it," Ariela Migdal, a senior staff attorney in the Women's Rights Project of the ACLU, told the Guardian on Tuesday.
But most smaller companies braving the markets now are probably those "in the most dire shape" in terms of cash flow and not the highest-quality candidates, says Paul Bard, Renaissance's vice president of research.
India's vehicles also vary as to their equipment, and this can have dire consequences in terms of the flow of traffic and level of congestion, as well as the number of fatalities.
There is no mention, for example, of the ongoing hypocrisy of a federal government that gives lip service to the value of education while under-funding education initiatives, or of spending a trillion dollars on a pointless war while cutting education funding at a time when states are in dire straits in terms of money for their schools.
Protection concerns remained significant, with cross-border movements having dire consequences in terms of sexual and gender-based exploitation and violence, in turn increasing the number of persons affected and/or infected by HIV/AIDS.
Reduced heart rate variability as a marker of autonomic dysfunction has been shown to have dire consequences in terms of morbidity (e.g. progression of coronary atherosclerosis) and mortality [ 8], independent of cardiovascular risk factors in various populations, including those with pre-diabetes and diabetes [ 9] [ 10].
Yet it casts in dire terms a dramatic rise in the production, sale, and consumption of new psychoactives.
In October, Mr. Panetta warned in dire terms that the United States was facing the possibility of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" and was increasingly vulnerable to foreign computer hackers who could dismantle the nation's power grid, transportation system, financial network and government.
