Sentence examples for dire power from inspiring English sources

Mr. Singh pushed the deal as vital to India's acceptance as a nuclear power and essential for the country to meet the energy needs of a growing economy, which has been hampered by dire power shortages.

But analysts and experts familiar with the negotiations say that the legal issues remain so complex that private U.S. companies may continue to shy away from new deals in India, despite the developing country's fast-growing and dire power needs.

While California has reached its most dire power warning stage, called a Stage 3 alert, several times since the energy crisis struck over the summer, this would have been the first time that the Independent System Operator would have ordered the next step, a planned process of switching off customers.

In May, a training exercise in New Jersey led to a dire "NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WARNING" being broadcast to two counties near the Hope Creek nuclear power plant in Salem County.

Things began looking dire after a power outage that lasted for almost three days, including one day without running water.

Despite Ethiopia's dire need for power, western pressure groups such as International Rivers are up in arms over the $1.8bn project.

But just last week, in response to dire warnings of power blackouts within two years - the same time uranium production will peak according to this study - the UK government announced £10 billion in financial guarantees to the nuclear power industry.

Their experiences, and the victories they helped make possible, tell us two things: First, that telling our stories, and standing up to do so even when the consequences may be dire, has immense power.

Despite the destruction of the World Trade Center and the economic downturn, New York's appetite for electricity has not slowed significantly, and there is still a dire need for new power plants, the managers of the state's power grid said today.

"There is a very dire risk that this power will be used to disrupt protected journalistic and political activity". He said if this "abuse of power" went unchallenged it would set a "troubling precedent".

Reform in Latin America after World War II must be seen against a background of rapidly increasing population and of extreme contrasts between plantation economies and small units; high concentration of land ownership, income, and power and dire poverty; modern farming and relatively backward cultivation methods; and nationalism and extensive foreign ownership of land.