Sentence examples for dire notion from inspiring English sources

In a measure of the general despair, the government has been flirting with what most Icelanders seem to view as the dire notion of accepting a big loan from Russia, whose people, according to that same survey, are the unhappiest in the world.

A scientific panel's report rules out some doomsday notions but says dire climatic surprises seem inevitable.

"The notion that this solves a dire need for the consumer just does not click yet".

Off the field, things are even more dire, with the scarcely conceivable – albeit unlikely – notion they could bow out of the Football League a very real possibility.

Never happen, we assure ourselves; such dire scenarios are as alarmist as a notion of global economic collapse leading to Great Depression II.

But we can at least begin to address the dire picture of joblessness by dispatching the notion that the government can't create jobs.

The notion that Social Security is in dire financial straits, Reid says, is a "myth" created by Republicans.

We would have thought that decades of discoveries in marine science, and dozens of official reports about the dire state of ocean ecosystems, would have banished the notion of an empty ocean.

This notion is certainly supported by the prevalence and dire outcomes of kidney diseases.

It is a corrective too to the notion that World War I was only about the dire trench warfare on the Western Front.

When, for example, the most experienced Democratic presidential candidate of all time is shouted over by her reality-TV-star male opponent, the abstract notion of the female voice being heard takes on a dire cast.