"The coming lean years promise to be very dire indeed".
"The circumstances in Queensland continue to be very dire indeed," she told reporters.
"The circumstances in Queensland continue to be very dire indeed," Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in Canberra as she pledged military assistance to the region.
TONIGHT: But Mr President, if I may, the predictions about global warming - and I hear what you say - are very dire.
"It has to be spread over a period of time otherwise the social consequences would be very dire," said Amin. "As you succeed in raising the income of the poor, you [can] reduce the subsidy".
Speaking to the BBC, Unicef Regional Director Manuel Fontaine said that the situation in the country was "very dire... and very desperate".
Given that most debtors are subordinate to bondholders, things would have to be very dire indeed to imagine a default.
"I read a lot about back-street abortions, and if you went down that road it was very dire".
You bet! Instead, I hid myself, ran away from fights, and to this day I regret that (even if I know that there could have been very dire consequences for fighting back).
