Sentence examples for dire stage from inspiring English sources

The growing herds in urban and suburban areas have sparked a number of programmes to control the animals, not without controversy among humans.In Town and Country, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, the problem has reached a dire stage.

Lamentably, the company now finds itself on the brink of collapse — a dire stage of the crisis that began unfolding in 2007, when Gerard Mortier was abortively hired as the general director.

With climate change approaching a dire stage, he is insistent about these programs.

But what benefit could the hospital offer at this dire stage?

He said his father was not in the dire stages of cancer.

Many other rainforests are in even more dire stages of destruction from a complex matrix of human-market demands.

The next problem is that the machine comes groaning with all the extra rubbish Sony insists on inflicting on its customers: the dire Sonic Stage software for multimedia and a load of utilities that provide a confusing extra layer of ways to manage the PC, such as software to calibrate the touchscreen and manage the display - all of which can be managed via Vista's own Control Panel.

Criminologist Jo-Ellan Dimitrius used surveys to determine the ideal defense juror demographic (black women) and analyzed and judged the prospective jurors' answers to a questionnaire and response and body language during voir dire (the stage of jury selection where lawyers are permitted to directly question the jury).

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.

This performance of Cabaret is, however, far from as dire as the stage appears prior to the show starting.

AP Conditions are dire up at the Park stage; so dire so that wading up the swampy hill feels like a brutal army-training assessment.