Sentence examples for dire way from inspiring English sources

The economy is in a dire way: inflation is running at 25%, as investors flee.

But they have encountered the limits of self-will in a particularly dire way.

The neighbourhood was close to Brownsville, a large border city, but people from the city kept their distance.It was a dire way to live, but not uncommon along the border.

If it weren't for sustained low-interest rates that have buoyed the real-estate market (housing starts rose here by 2.2percentt in 2001), we might be talking about a Florida bust in the same dire way we were talking about the California energy disaster.

With vacancy control on the table, landlords' livelihoods are at risk in a dire way.

Today, in this very moment, I am ensuring that your voice is not only validated but needed in the most dire way.

But in hotel hallways, over dimly lighted dinners and with their fists wrapped around cocktail glasses, they faced their lurking fear: that the fallout from Enron's collapse might taint the industry and change it in dire ways.

All the latter are irrational in various dire ways, ranging from ignorance and superstition to pseudoscience and charlatanism.

The one-time Dutch footballer of the year arrived at Stoke with quiet promise, but he's now ended his time there in the direst way possible, exiled during a relegation battle after a bust-up with Paul Lambert.

And the budgetary consequences of surrender could be dire: give way on this, and you leave the impression that the government can be leaned on by all and sundry.By contrast, Mr Brown should jettison his insistence on increasing the time for which terrorist suspects may be held without charge from 28 to 42 days.

Dire predictions one way or the other can mostly be ignored for now, since November is a long way away.