Sentence examples for dire terror from inspiring English sources

Democrats familiar with the report's contents are leaking out bits and pieces supporting the argument that the White House was inattentive to dire terror threats in the summer of 2001.

As an atheist myself, I put it to Cook that maybe getting people to ponder their mortality in a non-threatening way wasn't as dire as terror management theory made it sound.

They are under a dire, dire threat.

As an atheist myself, I put it to Cook that maybe getting people to ponder their mortality in a nonthreatening way wasn't as dire as terror-management theory made it sound.

But now, in the age of technology and terror, the dire threats come from much more homely adversaries.

No wonder Boko Haram can find recruits for its terror campaign.The dire poverty is not due to a lack of economic potential.

The Ankara bombing has confronted the nation with the dire realities of homegrown terror in the heart of the capital.

The "war on terror" has had dire consequences.

But Lotz also issued a dire warning, implying that God could send more terror -- or something worse.

Four-fifths of the mainly black population live in dire poverty and paramilitary gangs exercise a reign of terror.

"The Reapers Are the Angels" isn't in any sense a didactic novel, but there's a lesson in its leisurely manner: if you take the time to see and feel and think, the world, dire as it is, can lose some of its terrors.