She could've simply taken what we offered at that very moment and stored it for later but she passed it up because she was conscious of others who were in more dire need at that very moment.
Afghanistan isn't the same — strange to say, the situation there today seems even more dire than Iraq at the start of 2007.
"Any delay puts us in a more dire situation," Deborah Bathke, a climatologist at the University of Nebraska's National Drought Mitigation Center, told HuffPost.
With Ledley King's injury problems ever more dire, they need cover for Michael Dawson and William Gallas at centre-back.
And however grave the problems at federal level, they are worse at state level, and even more dire locally.
TOKYO Over the last several days, evidence has emerged indicating that the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was far more dire than previously recognized.
Others were more dire in their predictions of higher expenses, and ultimately higher prices at the pump.
"To chase [the retail] sector further, one needs to call for a more dire falloff in oil prices," said Satya D. Pradhuman, an analyst at Merrill Lynch, in a research report.
The situation at Variety's longtime print competitor, The Reporter, is more dire.
At the same time, Exxon scientists warned the company of more dire climate change implications — for the planet and corporate revenue.
