Sentence examples for dire stigma from inspiring English sources

Three decades after divorce rates first soared in the United States, removing the dire stigma of a broken marriage, and long after custody-law changes began forcing former spouses into close contact for years of joint child rearing, there seems to be a new tolerance emerging in many households for former partners.

In addition to harming families, and especially children, denying the most basic assistance actually increases recidivism rates by creating dire need, perpetuating the stigma of addiction and pushing people further away from social services aimed at alleviating the problem.

The treatment gap (1) in Amish as well as other communities results from multiple factors, including social stigma, a dire shortage of professional resources and abiding ignorance of underlying disease mechanisms and their developmental expression (4).

Religious stigma?

comment dire..

Situation dire.

So far, so dire.

Conditions remain dire.

The consequences were dire.

That sounds dire.

There were dire predictions.