Sentence examples for dire quality from inspiring English sources

The problem may lie with the dire quality of schools and clinics.

It also creates a paradox: although Mexico City has more rainy days than London, it suffers shortages more in keeping with a desert, making the price of each litre among the highest in the world – despite its often dire quality.

The dire quality of hospitals has long contradicted the constitutional guarantee of public healthcare, but the comments by Barros – who has previously called for cuts in welfare payments – have been interpreted as a sign that deeper cuts are likely to be imposed.

For decades, this community has faced dire air quality thanks to a local power plant pumping coal-dust into the atmosphere.

A day after revelations about dire water quality in Rio de Janeiro the Olympic triathlon champion, Alistair Brownlee, played down the concerns, saying: "I've swum in a lot worse than that".

Friends of the Earth, which mapped the sites and collated the data, said it was further evidence of the dire air quality across the country as a result of burgeoning traffic emissions and poor government controls on emissions sources.

Also, the BBC has an appalling record when it comes to adopting the right audio codecs on digital radio, because it was the BBC's decision not to adopt AAC for DAB back in the late 1990s which is the reason for DAB providing such dire audio quality today, and the BBC has had the opportunity to use AAC+ on their Internet radio streams since 2004, but they still aren't using it yet.

The dire air quality in Beijing offers a case in point.

Alarmists fear that such an increase will have dire environmental, quality-of-life and cultural impacts.

While there are several environmental crises converging here – severe water shortages, for instance, have become status quo – none is as dire as air quality.

That changed in the 1970s as the business began to decentralize, partly because the dire financial and quality-of-life problems in New York led many talented executives to pursue careers elsewhere.