Sentence examples for dire week from inspiring English sources

No open and liberal society can function like that, and it doesn't take an education at an elite university to recognise what a dire week it's been for free expression.

The poll results will round off an already dire news week for Mr Miliband - and potentially overshadow a vitally important 'fight back' speech scheduled for tomorrow.

The situation is so dire that this week President Obama spoke about the "crazy conspiracy theorizing" that spreads on Facebook, creating a "dust cloud of nonsense".

After a storm paralyzed cities in the South this month, officials issued dire warnings this week before the latest storm hit.

And America's public finances are in a dire state.Seven weeks before Mr Obama defeated John McCain in November 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed.

The problem has become so dire in recent weeks that opposition groups like the Syrian National Council and the Local Coordination Committees have called for restraint by their own supporters, fearing that the problem could spiral out of control.

This is the worst film of the week, a dire British comedy, to which the only honest response is to soil and then set fire to the Union flag in the foyer of your local cinema.

Ministers are prepared for a week of dire economic news, and the Treasury yesterday gave the Bank of England permission to take emergency steps to boost the money supply if the sharply falling bank rate fails to boost growth.

"But we have had extremes this year, going from the superb performance against Swindon to the dire performance the following week against Stevenage, and the record in August compared to the record in September and October.

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Emergency Management Administration won't run out of disaster relief money until later in the week, despite dire warnings from congressional leaders in both parties about the fund going dry as soon as Monday.

Thus, despite months of dire revenue estimates and weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, Connecticut's first significant legislative response to the painful deficit seemed little more than an empty gesture.