Sentence examples for dire wants from inspiring English sources
It is much the same story throughout West Nusa Tenggara, which the United Nations Development Programme rates as the least developed province in Indonesia.On the face of it, the new government has little room for manoeuvre to alleviate such dire want.
He argued that the federal government had an additional duty to take aggressive steps "to prevent the starvation or the dire want of any of its fellow men and women who try to maintain themselves but cannot".
Being in dire need of water, and wanting to cross the giant obstacle, the soldiers started searching for a way down to the canyon floor that would be passable for them along with their horses.
They wanted a veteran who could eat some innings and win some games, a reliable arm for a staff in dire need of one.
Burg isn't in financial dire straights but wants to ensure the collection is available to the public.
If we want to avoid dire consequences, we need to find the political will to reduce the growth in energy consumption to zero -- or even begin to consume less.
And of course the corollary also holds: if we are perceived to be in dire straights, no one wants to spend or invest, and we become poorer.
They underestimate it grossly to keep their industry going The predictions are so dire that no one wants to face them.
I'd go further: since most people have, at some time in their lives, found themselves in the position of going against principle in the interest of expediency, any viewer with any imagination at all can identify with the extermination-camp guards and ghetto officials Lanzmann interviews, low-level functionaries or conscripts who find themselves in a dire situation and just want to get through it.
