Sentence examples for dire reckoning from inspiring English sources
It's evident that the many dour warnings of the 1980s about America living beyond its means and due for a dire reckoning were utterly wrong.
Reading the unclassified evidence against him, it's striking how two-bit he seems, even by the government's direst reckoning.
In 2001 Bradford's school system was reckoned so dire by inspectors that the council was ordered to hand it over to a private company.
WestWitch reckoned the show was "utterly dire".
The situation in both El Salvador and Honduras, which is also reckoning with gang violence, grew so dire that then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson warned Trump in a letter last October of what could happen to deportees.
The prognosis for the repayment of student loans, which are written off altogether after 30 years, is more dire than anyone imagined, and the current rate of default is reckoned to be around 45%.
I like Mick McCarthy and don't reckon we'll get any better, but by God the football is dire sometimes and some of the results last year were awful.
GE is sitting on $48 billion of cash and has already raised over 90% of its long-term debt needs for this year no mean feat in a dire credit market.The company also plans to slash its dividend from the second half of 2009, which it reckons will let it conserve an additional $9 billion a year on an ongoing basis.
It reckons that up to 1,000 refugees are pouring into the Diffa region of southern Niger every week.As the numbers rise, things have become increasingly dire.
But many people reckon the plan is being delayed because it is controversial and, in some ways, incomplete.Alitalia is in such dire straits that only a recent loan of €300m ($480m) from the government is keeping it flying.
