Sentence examples for dire toll from inspiring English sources
(Was it really that big a hit?) Among its deserving concerns are the punishing demands for weight loss in the modeling profession, the dire toll of plastic surgery and anorexia, and other manifestations of how the prevailing aesthetic abuses women (and, it suggests, men).
Spending on health, welfare and education is further constrained by a big outlay on defence, which accounts for nearly 20% of the 2011-12 budgexpenditureure, compared with less than 8% for education.Some analysts worry that the fiscal deficit is about to take a dire toll on Pakistan's external accounts.
That lesson cannot be more pertinent today, as the Great Recession continues to take a dire toll on the survival and development of children and poor households everywhere.
VIDEO: Watch now The disaster, now in its second week, has had a two-fold impact beyond its dire toll in deaths and injuries: It has both wiped out the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Haitians and crippled virtually all critical services and infrastructure needed for aid distribution.
Most of al-Hussein's speech will deal with the dire human rights situation in Syria, as well as the "terrible toll" in human life from Israel's military assault on the Gaza strip.
The urgency relates to the dire human toll of rampant obesity and its consequences among children and adults alike.
Naturally, Asprey left the club first, but the pressure of the dire situation took its toll on Edwards.
After entering the club, they found 30 more bodies, 50 in all, and many more in dire condition, marking a death toll without precedent.
Assadi frequently tweets images of life inside Yemen that show the dire humanitarian situation and the toll taken on civilians.
The situation in West Africa is, obviously, truly dire -- with projections of the toll escalating from terrible to calamitous day by day.
He said that new, more dire employment predictions suggested that fare and toll revenues might also fall more sharply than the $105 million drop projected for them in February.
