Sentence examples for dire losses from inspiring English sources

The big financial firms that dominated the World Trade Center suffered the most dire losses.

This was familiar rhetorical ground: warning of dire losses has been the core of Trump's campaign.

In the face of dire losses in 1998, the note says, Mr. Israel and a colleague devised a scheme to produce fake audits of the funds' performance, and to try to make up the losses the next year.

Which direst of losses would that be then?

Pleads Ian Betts, as though I was about to pierce his eyes with hot skewers, "Am in Mexico trying to understand the direst of losses by England yesterday.

Waterstones has just posted dire results: £37.3m losses.

Unemployment (at 30%, and 43% for under-30s), manufacturing and agricultural decline (despite a recent upturn), large-scale revenue losses, "dire" humanitarian conditions, worsening socioeconomic indicators – all these issues and more are linked explicitly and repeatedly to the political situation.

In a world where advertising and circulation revenues have plummeted and the future of news magazines looks dire, Newsweek's losses are estimated at more than $20m a year.

Hull's economy was in dire straits: job losses following the collapse of the fishing industry in the late 70s had been compounded by swingeing cutbacks as Thatcherite economic policies started to bite.

Although Alcatel-Lucent is famous for its dire record of losses and write-downs since it was created back in 2006 out of the ashes of France's Alcatel and America's Lucent Technologies its share price has risen by around 40.0% over the past month.

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.