They go out undefeated and, while their opening-day display against Cape Verde was dire, they have the memories of the consummate win over Angola and the dramatic late equaliser against Morocco to sustain them through World Cup qualifying.
A look of dire grief and atrocious memories.
They were the almost-raisins – and I don't even like raisins – and the tart juice I turned to only in certain dire medical situations, the memory of which does not bear reliving.
A dire outlook for the memory chip industry and the domination of South Korean chip makers are pushing U.S. and Taiwanese tech firms into a tighter embrace.
Here's a look back at some equally dire reports from recent memory that also turned out not to have any relation whatsoever to anything Apple was doing, performance-wise.
Standup wasn't always so flawless, and being a judge on the show brought back memories of some dire television that epitomised what was on offer at the start of my career.
The fabled 118-year-old courtyard at 1 West 72nd Street, where the specters of John Lennon and "Rosemary's Baby" hover in the collective memory, is in dire need of repairs.
Iraq's 2007 cholera outbreak, the worst in recent memory, underlines the dire state of water and sanitation across the country.
The organisers are also praying that current tsunami of dire news will be a bad memory by the opening ceremony on 5 August.
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.
