Sentence examples for dire standards from inspiring English sources

Universities are mediocre and overcrowded, even by the dire standards of continental Europe.

Now, even by its own dire standards, it is entering a worse phase than usual.

Her immediate family, impoverished even by the coastal enclave's dire standards, had been unengaged in politics.

That should make cases in England Scotlandd has its own legal system) cheaper, simpler and fairer at least by the dire standards of current arrangements.

If Hromada does well, big money's hold on politics will tighten, and Mr Kuchma will have to forget about cooperation from parliament.The grimness of the political outlook is a shame, because, by Ukraine's dire standards, the economy could be worse.

Increase the productivity of these animals, development specialists say, and you improve dire living standards.

But it is clear that Macron's only hope of preventing more violence is to calm the protest movement by answering its concerns — and these are now varied: from dire living standards and unfair taxes to mistrust in the political system and parliament itself.

Creditors, he argues, have done far too little to compromise, all the while blaming the impasse on a Greek government that faces a crashing economy and dire living standards.

What did that have to do with it?" Creditors, he argues, have done far too little to compromise, all the while blaming the impasse on a Greek government that faces a crashing economy and dire living standards.

This situation is so complicated, and so dire, that standard approaches to bring an end to this cycle by governments and NGO's alike almost always fail.

The shift from tobacco to ramen highlights how dire the nutritional standards at prisons has become, he added.