Sentence examples for dire possibility from inspiring English sources

For the government, the sanctions raised the dire possibility of further defaults.

For now, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England prefer not to contemplate this dire possibility.

One dire possibility is an earthquake or tsunami striking the greater metropolitan area of Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, where about twenty-eight million people strain an already overburdened infrastructure.

But there's a certain type of dire possibility that the Fed doesn't seem to want to contemplate: the sort of economic turbulence that affected the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

At a conference in New York in 1967, Dr. Wheeler, seizing on a suggestion shouted from the audience, hit on the name "black hole" to dramatize this dire possibility for a star and for physics.

The heroes and heroines of this sort of film do battle against traditional horror-movie threats -- mutants, lethal viruses, vampires, homicidal computers and the like -- but in a proactive, can-do sort of way that seems to negate the true power of the genre: the dire possibility that the malignant, irrational forces we struggle against may finally be stronger than we are.

Dr. Oddone said he had to plan for more dire possibilities, because of the uncertainties.

It faced existential questions and dire possibilities with equally serious music that makes no pop concessions.

"There were a whole series of dire possibilities that didn't even occur to people," Dr. Waldron said.

Those dire possibilities would cause a corporation to err on the side of too much "See It Now" and "CBS Reports".

If the more dire possibilities can be avoided until then, he added, "putting some of that liquidity into the bond market will be a lot more attractive".