"dire plight" is an appropriate phrase for written English.
It is typically used to describe a difficult or desperate situation. For example, "The refugees were in a dire plight, having been forced to leave their homes without food or shelter."
As the dire plight of Dewey & LeBoeuf worsened this week, a partner, Stuart Saft, the head of the firm's global real estate practice, decamped to Holland & Knight.
Harari is a vegan and the dire plight of animals, particularly domesticated animals, since the agricultural revolution is something he riffs on in the book, but there are countless other examples.
Obscured by the uproar over migrant trafficking in the Mediterranean, the dire plight of tens of thousands of refugees, asylum-seekers and economic migrants fleeing Burma and Bangladesh by sea has passed largely unremarked by western politicians and media.
As Greece's dire plight shows, economic reform is all but impossible to achieve by drawing up lists of institutions and rules that have evolved over decades in well-functioning economies and imposing them from outside.
This year, the Legislature will face the worst fiscal crisis in a generation: a budget shortfall of at least $5 billion, a bleak economic outlook, few reserves and the equally dire plight of New York City.
But the real story in this country right now is the increasingly dire plight of those heading toward the bottom of that ladder that Ms. Navarra was talking about.
More on Hull's desperate plight below.
Even given Afghanistan's dire financial plight, it's not a position to accept, much less emulate.
The story's narrator, Johnny Hake, has lost his job, but has kept his unemployment (and his family's dire financial plight) from his wife, Christina, and their children.
The prospect of a permanent split has been heightened by the party's dire financial plight and the formation of a new faction – the BNP reform group – which is openly discussing forming a new party.
Khamenei must be aware of Iran's dire economic plight, which is in significant part the result of sanctions; the inflation rate is over 40 percent; nearly a quarter of men under the age of 25 are unemployed; and swaths of the economy are failing.
