'Festival fashion" is generally a dire label applied to a woeful assortment of tat which, were it not for Glastonbury, Coachella, Latitude et al, would never see the light of day.
Together with Jason Barnes, a physicist at the University of Idaho, Moscow, and John Chambers, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C., he has carried out large numbers of detailed numerical simulations of "moon-less Earths," which show that the consequences are less dire than is generally assumed.
Transatlantic phone calls were generally reserved for dire emergencies or very special occasions; I got only a couple during my five months as an exchange student at a Toulouse lycée.
She worked on some of the biggest hits and franchises of the '90s, including Steven Spielberg's "Hook," "Lethal Weapon 3," "Sister Act" and "The Wedding Singer". Not every script she worked on could be saved — she was reported to have worked the scripts for the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, which are generally considered to be dire — but no doctor saves every patient.
The effect on unemployment appears to be especially dire: Austerity measures are generally followed by a jump in long-term unemployment that remains pronounced even five years after the fact.
Mr. Wahid views the situation as dire, while Western officials in Baghdad are generally more optimistic.
Once he was excused during voir dire for interrogating the lawyer and being "generally obnoxious," he said.
Even then, countries are generally not allowed to export the products that result from forced patent sharing except under dire circumstances.
Although 2017 saw a few welcome success stories, the generally dire fundraising landscape for female founders is well documented.
I don't think that SanDisk is in dire straits, exactly, but generally the wholesale selling off of assets like the factories that make your goods isn't seen as a sign of solvency.
