Sentence examples for dire month from inspiring English sources

MARUTI-SUZUKI, India's leading carmaker, sold over 76,000 cars in November, 60% more than in the dire month of November 2008.

There was relief for England on Friday after a dire month, whose twists and turns, texts and twitters were beyond the imagination of Eeyore.

Chinese share prices suffered a dismal end to a dire month as promises of more emergency measures from officials in Beijing failed to stem a stock market slide that is now reverberating around the global economy.

The BRC report said the clothing and footwear sector had a "dire month" as a cold spell kept shoppers away from spring-summer ranges, in stark contrast to April a year ago when temperatures were unusually high.

While it has helped unite political parties that had been in fierce competition, Mr. Torre's death adds to a particularly dire month for Mr. Calderón, who unleashed a war on drug traffickers upon taking office in 2006 and has seen violence spike as a result.

However, the better than expected figures, which followed a dire December, were partly due to pessimistic retailers cutting back on stock levels to limit the amount of discounting.

It was looking dire in June, nearly impossible in July, and more or less mathematically exploded by August.

In addition, after a decade of prosperity, tax revenues began to plunge this year, and projections have grown increasingly dire each month.

His plight should become more dire this month, when the government releases projections showing that the federal surplus will be much smaller than was forecast only a few weeks ago.

Holidays 4 UK's failure was reportedly triggered by dire trading in May, June and July.. Also trading as Holidays 4U, the company flew from a number of UK airports, including Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick and Glasgow.

The consequences of chronic underfunding for small cities like Central Falls, Rhode Island, are dire: in July, a state-appointed receiver cajoled retired municipal employees to forgo up to half their retirement benefits, or face a worse clawback when the city declared bankruptcy (as it did a few weeks later).