And even the president's own Office of Management and Budget pressed Mr. Hagel to suppress the release of statistics showing the dire potential impact of continued across-the-board cuts, according to several officials, who spoke anonymously to discuss an internal debate.
However, most Americans have no conception of the serious, even dire, potential consequences of a true budget and debt meltdown.
This past summer, during a conference at Google's headquarters, Musk appeared alongside Nick Bostrom, author of the book "Superintelligence," which examines the dire potential consequences of machines attaining human-level intelligence, as well as Stuart Russell, a machine-learning pioneer who drafted an open letter urging researchers to pursue work that will "maximize the societal benefit of AI".
And amid a world of debilitating political dysfunction with the most dire potential consequences, the crucial concept of public accountability cannot and should not be narrowly confined by local or national borders, or the rigid strictures, orthodoxies, conceits and insecurities of traditional journalism.
Both of these scrawled red herrings would be laughable if they didn't have such dire, potential consequences for Israel and America.
For many very serious people, our overreliance on foreign oil and the potential dire consequences of global warming make the case for moving more toward nuclear energy a compelling one.
Obesity in our children, as in ourselves, is associated with a genuinely dire array of potential consequences.
You may get a glimpse of the future and come up with a scene that depicts the potential dire consequences of global warming.
Frequent temper outbursts, especially those accompanied by bullying (the coward trying to control others) or threats (easier to shout out dire warnings of potential harm to you than to investigate their own internal source of harm) are a sign of a controlling personality type.
This is of dire consequence in tissue engineering, where seeded cells and bioactive components are separated from the native tissue, limiting the regenerative potential of the design.
