Mr. Paul, in his final push, stressed dire warnings about the nation's fiscal condition.
And then, they moved en masse for a final pass to dire-sounding, bone-rattling bass.
How dire the final picture ends up being is murky, because the City Council must weigh in on the mayor's proposal, and a new state budget that could yield more money for New York is nowhere in sight.
Last week Uganda gave Kenya a "final warning" about the dire consequences of further aggression (the two countries have recently been involved in a running series of border and diplomatic incidents) and today President Amin has already accused his eastern neighbour of playing a major logistic role in the raid.
"Both great footballing teams, but both won their finals on pens after dire 0-0 draws.
By the end of an utterly dire semi-final, he had made crucial stops and, most pertinently, batted away Dundee United's first two penalties of a shootout.
In one of the final scenes, with his direst warnings proving correct, Mr Powell turns to Mr Cheney and delivers a heartfelt "Fuck you".The real Colin Powell used more diplomatic language in endorsing Barack Obama on October 19th, but the impact was much the same.
Choice paintings, drawings, miniatures on ivory, and lithographs represent the final — though, in respect to dire genius, scarcely declining — years of the last Old Master and first modern artist, who died in 1828 at the age of eighty-two.
The first half was reminiscent of the last final Toulouse did win, a dire overtime victory over Stade Français in Edinburgh in 2005, when it ground out victory in a game in which all the points came from kicks.
