Sentence examples for dire verdict from inspiring English sources
In calling for dramatically more action in a very short period of time, the new document matches the dire verdict reached last month by scientists who are part of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
In the mid-70s, Frost's career was waning and he needed a real coup to put him back on top; Nixon was languishing in a post-impeachment twilight and desperate to overturn history's dire verdict.
This innovation would reward conscious effort, in other words — grim, unflagging exertion, and time, lots of time, and driving, miles and miles of it, as desperate kids and parents scrambled about like Joseph K., hoping to survive the process that they woke to find themselves enmeshed in one fine morning, all to prevent a dire verdict from an unseen bureaucrat.
This innovation would reward conscious effort, in other words grim, unflagging exertion, and time, lots of time, and driving, miles and miles of it, as desperate kids and parents scrambled about like Joseph K., hoping to survive the process that they woke to find themselves enmeshed in one fine morning, all to prevent a dire verdict from an unseen bureaucrat.
As always, his personality spills into the lyrics, which alternate between lamenting the state of American leadership ("The business-first flat earthers licking their wounds/The verdict is dire, the country's in ruins") and exploring the evocative visions, taken directly from his dreams, that have long informed his writing.
As Gov. Bob Riley said yesterday in a statement, "Although some may believe that this verdict will solve the state's dire financial problems, the collection of any part of these damages will probably only follow a lengthy appeals process".
But on the assumption that an election is more a choice than a verdict, and Labour's polling on the economy is dire, the Tories consider that no more insurmountable than it was for Barack Obama in 2012.
The court also noted that a defendant in a Wisconsin misdemeanor prosecution has a right to ask for continuances and to challenge prospective jurors on voir dire, and if 'these measures are still not sufficient to provide an impartial jury, the verdict can be set aside after trial based on the denial of a fair and impartial trial.' 41 Wis.2d, at 321, 164 N.W.2d, at 270.
It's not just that this morning's Guardian/ICM poll verdict on the prime minister, his government and his party will have made such dire reading in Downing Street.
