Sentence examples for dire straits for from inspiring English sources
The Coyotes have been in dire straits for months.
Sonera Oyj, the Finnish telephone company, has been in dire straits for months as a result of its investment in wireless licenses around Europe.
"They will be in dire straits for a long time," he said About three million Europeans work in car factories or companies that make auto components, according to the manufacturers' association, and the fate of the industry is closely intertwined with the broader economy.
Reports of slowdowns, layoffs or weak fiscal results from any number of supplier companies, including Pegatron, Foxconn and Sharp have bloggers feverishly pounding keys, predicting dire straits for Apple to come.
If music education is in danger for our typically developing students, it's in dire straits for our differently learning students.
According to one of his friends at the time, Robert MacDonald Ford, the Hubbards were "in fairly dire straits for money" but sustained themselves on the income from Hubbard's writing.
It's reminiscent of the video for Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing".
THE unrepentant cheats among the big-time athletes and mercenary scoundrels inside the circle of coaches have been humming along with a Dire Straits tune for years until "Money for Nothing" has all but become a college fight song.
It has been MTV's trademark for more than 30 years and was immortalised by Sting in Dire Straits' Money for Nothing.
And there was The Lawnmower Man, which warned us of the very real possibility that the internet could turn everyone into insane pyrokinetic virtual reality geniuses who will destroy the world despite looking like something from the Dire Straits Money for Nothing video.
Dire straits indeed for a company that has defied the odds not only against big retail competition but against deadlier online opponents as well for nearly 50 years.
