And it's amusing to hear Dr. Serizawa essaying the English phrase "oxygen destroyer" in the middle of his dire statements about the dangers facing mankind.
After all, to make the sort of dire statements that McConnell is making, then clearly he has thought long and hard about this issue.
Headlines about severe fiscal distress in American cities and states — plus a series of dire statements by Wall Street seers predicting bigger troubles ahead — have led mom-and-pop investors to cut their muni holdings.
Mr. Cheney himself has much at stake in the path the commission takes: He offered some of the most dire statements about Iraq's abilities in the months leading up to the war.
It's just that, unlike Steinbrenner, apparently, Torre doesn't issue dire statements that, for example, there will be hellfire to pay just because a team goes to Game 6 of the World Series and loses to the Marlins.
On the day of the decision, bishops across the country posted similarly dire statements on their Web sites, and at Mass on the following Sundays, priests read the bishops' letters from their pulpits and wove the religious freedom theme into their homilies.
But the direst statements sound overblown to many of the people who are actually developing the technology.
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Mothercare issued a dire trading statement on 8 January, guiding analysts to halve their forecasts for full-year profit.
I still will never say that I don't drink or that I have quit drinking, because it's too dire of a statement to make and I still occasionally hold and daintily sip a token beer, but I will say plainly that I hate alcohol.
