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The consequences are too dire to be ignored, as more than 200 people have died and 9,700 were injured as a result of red-light running and speeding in our home state of Ohio alone in 2009.

Huddersfield coach Paul Anderson: "Both teams were dire, to be honest.

Eventually, it dawned on industry that the situation was too serious and too dire not to be obfuscated.

Seemingly endless wars and the attendant abuses, financial crisis and economic malaise have made Europe and America look less like models to aspire to than dire examples to be shunned.

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Cities from Boulder and Berkley to Philadelphia and San Francisco have implemented successful taxes on sugary drinks, demonstrating the soda industry's dire prophesies to be baseless.

He and his successors centralised much of the power of government in London where, to increasing Scottish irritation, most of it was to stay until 1999, when Scotland got back its Parliament and a "first minister" with wide powers.That union of the crowns had already had one dire effect, though just how dire was not to be seen until the 19th and 20th centuries.

Many refugees in Calais are desperate to get to Britain to escape freezing temperatures and dire conditions and to be reunited with family members here.

But are these dire forecasts likely to be realized?

And the long-term consequences are likely to be dire.

Meanwhile, the situation for the homeless continues to be dire.