Sentence examples for if dire from inspiring English sources

However, assessing digital complicity is difficult because consequence can be contingent, even if dire, and responsibility can seem tenuous and distant.

On Wednesday, Vonn offered a brave if dire view of an injury to her right shin that she sustained last week in training.

2009 could be one of the worst years for the house-building industry for a century if dire predictions from senior government housing officials come true.

And depressing as it is, if dire economic times come again, a coup d'état still seems as likely a way as any for political change to occur in Russia or many former Soviet states.

News International's papers combine a lot of readers with a willingness to swing both ways.If the damage from the scandal was limited to British newspapers, or even to Mr Murdoch's reputation and political influence, it would be manageable for the company even if dire for him.

For the editor, he wanted a woman, and required "that she be a college graduate, that she should have had an editorial position preferably with a woman's magazine, that she should be able to write if dire necessity ever required it of her, that she be married and that she should be a mother".

The videos are bolstered by text explanations of each move, which I found helpful, if occasionally in dire need of proofreading.

"If we were dire, if we weren't playing well, if we didn't have any confidence and if I thought we were capitulating then we would be having a different conversation because we would be totally concerned.

I bought an emergency catastrophic plan, which would cover me if something dire befell -- even if I needed to be medevaced back.

I recently set out to see if those dire reports had been as greatly exaggerated as the rumors about August.

Mr. Flanegin, the owner of Geigercounters.com, expressed sympathies for the Japanese people, even if their dire situation had lifted his sales.