Sentence examples for dire terrorist from inspiring English sources

Last week, Tom Ridge, the homeland security secretary, made another dire terrorist alert announcement.

In response to disclosures from the panel in recent weeks suggesting that the administration had been lax in dealing with the dire terrorist threats that reached the White House in 2001, Mr. Bush and his senior deputies have said they were aware of intelligence warnings but believed them to refer to threats overseas.

The federal agency that oversees security for the nation's nuclear stockpile and its weapons laboratories has imposed a hiring freeze, in part because of budgetary constraints, less than a week after the F.B.I. issued a dire terrorist alert that warned that nuclear facilities were at special risk of attack by Al Qaeda.

But the harsher questioning, from Democrats and Republicans alike was reserved for Mr. Rumsfeld, especially after he and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell acknowledged in testimony that they had been aware of intelligence reports in 2001 warning of the especially dire terrorist threat against the United States.

An interim report by the panel's staff offered a stinging assessment of the C.I.A. under Mr. Tenet's leadership and was made public during a hearing at which Mr. Tenet disclosed that he had little contact with President Bush during much of the summer of 2001, a period when intelligence agencies were warning of a dire terrorist threat.

But the store, whose prospects appeared dire after the terrorist attacks, has thrived, not only fortifying the downtown bulwark but also opening locations in Rego Park, Queens, and now Lincoln Square, wresting the lease from a Barnes & Noble.

He predicted dire consequences, suggesting terrorists would be encouraged to target Americans.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Every Sept. 11 anniversary comes with dire threats of reprisal — terrorist claims that circle the globe for days in advance.

TERRORISM-WAR: Another more dire possibility is a terrorist act or even a military invasion by an aggressor country.

"The situation is dire and defeating these terrorists will require immediate, sustained, simultaneous action across multiple fronts.

"People are worried about their safety when they see the television or read the newspapers and hear Islamic State or al-Qaida or any of these other terrorist organisations making dire threats against the west and against Australia, [it] obviously makes them nervous," Pyne told a breakfast television program.