Sentence examples for dire realities from inspiring English sources

The Ankara bombing has confronted the nation with the dire realities of homegrown terror in the heart of the capital.

And not just the stories her staff had collected across the country about the dire realities of new parenthood without paid leave, many from struggling families, but the stories of women in Congress about their own experience with the strain of motherhood.

And that change comes with some dire realities, in which perfectly decent, intelligent, virtuous people -- with a basic drive to apply themselves, work hard, learn on the job, and get promoted -- stare out at the factory floor and wonder what might steal their opportunity: cheap overseas labor or cost-cutting technological innovation.

Words like "respond" and "long-term" provide a reassuring gloss on a dire reality.

That period marked some of Faludy's best output, as his imagination vanquished dire reality.

That is the dire reality in the necklace of rural towns and coastal communities across northwest Florida that Michael gutted.

I'm watching a really, really dire reality show called Girls of the Playboy Mansion, about Hugh Hefner's girlfriends.

For Obama, faith is a means to move from that dire reality — the world as it is — to the promise of the world as it ought to be.

A re-emergence in a dire reality show on cable TV in 2005 was overshadowed by the diagnosis of a rare anal cancer in 2006.

Given Indian teachers' and educational administrators' knowledge of the dire reality, and the uncertainty surrounding the benefits of achievement tests for the majority of India's schoolchildren, it is easy to understand why India opted out.

Louise Erdrich turns this dire reality into a powerful human story in her new novel, in which a Native American woman is raped somewhere in the vicinity of a sacred round house, and seeking justice becomes almost as devastating as the crime.