Sentence examples for dire perils from inspiring English sources

Plenty of harsh words were expressed over the course of recent months, and many Senate Democrats were angered by what they interpreted as a lack of respect for Mr. Obama from the McCain campaign and the senator's own warnings about the dire perils of liberal Democratic government.

He soon saw that Numico was in dire peril.

That would very likely be a time when Israel itself is already in dire peril.

In Illinois's Sixth Congressional District, the president's combustible persona and administration have put Republican candidates in dire peril.

He warned that all 50 states of the homeland are in dire peril, including the state of Israel.

South Africa are already in dire peril of becoming the first host country to fail to progress beyond the group stage.

Yet the brilliance of the evacuation could not hide the fact that the British had suffered a terrible defeat and that Britain itself was in dire peril.

He's aware that most people don't go around counting the bricks in a wall or touching every parking meter they walk by, but, for him, not to do so would be to put himself in dire peril.

When Tom Ridge, the secretary of homeland defense, holds a news conference to warn the nation of dire peril and it winds up as fodder for comedy shows, there's something very wrong somewhere.

"So I thought: 'Great, we're going to carry on coming, we're going to support Lewes FC as well as Arsenal, this is a good thing.' I went on the website to find out more about the club I was now going to support and found out it was in dire peril.

Humanity is in dire peril, because the other kind of peril is, presumably, actually sort of nice.