Sentence examples for especially dire from inspiring English sources

Pentagon officials' warnings were especially dire.

The city's problems appear especially dire.

The situation was especially dire in Meyer's home.

For low-wage workers, these consequences are especially dire.

The situation became especially dire on Tuesday, when releases of radiation led the company to pull most of its workers from the plant.

New figures suggest that British GDP may have shrunk by 1.5% in the final quarter of 2008, compared with the previous three months.Businesses are in especially dire straits.

I'm not about to announce for example that I think everything in the garden is now rosy, and that after this things can surely only get better, especially the dire economic situation and the desperate state of British politics.

These eminently social functions of university education are not to be forgotten, and especially not in dire times.

Elsewhere in the euro zone things aren't quite that bad, but they're still pretty dire, especially in countries on the southern periphery.

The news from the United Nations on the likely impacts of climate change is dire, especially for the poorest people on the planet.

But if the 2012 results reveal that the G.O.P.'s weakness among minority voters, especially Hispanics, is dire, political opportunities that seem unlikely today could quickly become conventional wisdom after November.