Overall, the situation of children is dire, with poor access to health care, acute malnutrition rates above the internationally agreed-upon emergency levels1, unsafe water and poor sanitation, which in combination puts the lives of children at significant risk.
The situation is particularly dire in poor countries, where some 215 million women don't want to get pregnant yet can't get their hands on modern contraceptives, according to United Nations figures.
In these dire times, Poor Richard offered not proverbs but recipes, to help Americans get by without imported sugar: recipes for wine made from homegrown grapes, rum made from corn, and sugar made from beets.
In addition to ranking Afghanistan in the development index for the first time, the report warned that Afghanistan could revert to anarchy if its dire poverty, poor health and insecurity were not improved.
These are the worst of modern times, growing direr as poorer nations suffer, too: yet still we're mired in trivial pursuits.
Films are selected for dire acting skills, poor script and absurd plots – past selections include Birdemic, Frankenhooker and Sharknado.
This dire situation of poor electricity infrastructure, however, may have a silver lining, as it has opened the door for new off-grid energy innovations to potentially circumvent current energy technologies in developing countries.
Not only does Singer dwell on a number of past disputes (including some that even he concedes are a bit dated), but he fails to confront some of the issues that are most outrageous from a moral perspective, like the hypocritical agricultural subsidies in Europe and America and their dire consequences for poor nations.
You can romp around its streets at a quick clip, comfortably aware that your circumstances are less dire than his poor protagonist's. .
The situation was dire and the poor quality of service actually discouraged local residents from coming to the clinic.
