Sentence examples for dire report from inspiring English sources

Mr. McGreevey's plan was prompted by a dire report in March from a panel he had appointed.

In a dire report, Mr. Ban said an African Union force that was set to assume peacekeeping and security responsibilities in the Central African Republic might not be ready in time for its December deployment schedule.

BERN, Switzerland — Amid the news of global warming and huge losses at UBS, the country's largest bank, the Swiss were confronted this winter with an even more dire report: the possible extinction of cervelas, the national sausage.

The sweeping reassessment has been prompted by deteriorating conditions on the ground, the messy and still unsettled outcome of the Afghan elections and a dire report by Mr. Obama's new commander, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal.

General McChrystal has requested as many as 40,000 more troops for the effort in Afghanistan and issued a dire report warning that without more forces the mission there would fail.

But that was before Afghanistan's fraud-riddled elections, before Obama's new top commander there, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, came back with a dire report and a request for further reinforcements and before a spooked White House entered full-scale reassessment mode.

The news broke a stream of dire reports about Fiat in recent months.

There, a denizen of the marina, scolding a foreign journalist for killing the local business with unnecessarily dire reports.

I recently set out to see if those dire reports had been as greatly exaggerated as the rumors about August.

On Wednesday, safety officials in Guangxi called the dire reports in a few scattered papers grossly exaggerated.

Smog continues to plague much of China, and there are increasingly dire reports about water pollution, food pollution and soil pollution.