Sentence examples for dire mess from inspiring English sources

It is likely to be a vain exercise: unnecessary if the downturn is mild, but insufficient to deal with a truly dire mess.

"We would be in a dire mess financially if we gambled and got relegated - we would go bankrupt," said Birmingham's co-owner.

The world was in a dire mess and investment bankers, with their incomprehensible derivatives and collateralised debt obligations, were widely seen as the venal culprits.

Obama's remarks to the GLACIER conference,  attended by the foreign ministers of Arctic nations, were threaded with equal parts hope and dire warnings: Yes, it's a terrible mess.

What is striking in the midst of a dire political mess is that you can now be making huge decisions about subjects you know nothing about.

"Candidates better have a darned good reason -- and it better be a dire reason -- for messing with the so-called trust fund".

Even junior Illinois Senator Barack Obama indulged one time, before the leadership made the pragmatic point that it's not wise to mess with the dire consequences of failing to raise the debt limit, or to call attention to yourself in connection with them.

Hill sets the 2003-04 budeficitficit at $14 billion, including Schwarzenegger's repeal of the car tax hike; Arduin has issued even more dire predictions of what will happen the mess doesn't get cleaned up now.

That's the primal fear that informs so much of the rhetoric: that messing with nature is sure to have dire consequences.

Healthcare is a mess, the infrastructure of our country is in dire need of upgrading, the economy is in a slow uphill slog, and formerly dependable career paths have simply gone away.

Saddled with their own fiscal mess, state leaders seem to have forgotten about the dire consequences for the state if New York City sinks.