Sentence examples for more dire consequences from inspiring English sources

Others want to block more dire consequences, and see the state as the obvious mitigator.

When the business is riskier and when its failure would have more dire consequences for the economy, we want any potential bankruptcy to become much less likely.

In the short- to medium-term, no outcome would have more dire consequences for African development than a continued steep decline in commodities prices on which recent African economic growth has been built.

But while this "democracy inaction," to borrow Jon Stewart's phrase, is troubling the internet in some ways, it has more dire consequences elsewhere; and the scope of the problems we talk about online should be considered in light of that.

So much of our life is lived online, and so much of our highly sensitive personal data is stored on Google's servers, that it is absurd that there aren't more dire consequences facing those that choose to molest that data.

There can be more dire consequences, too.

Markets have recently taken a more optimistic view of Italy and Spain — the nations where Greek "contagion" has long been feared to strike next, with even more dire regional consequences.

Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic ended with the mark being scrapped and replaced with a new currency, but there were more dire, indirect consequences as well: the havoc wreaked by the years of hyperinflation contributed to the Nazi ascension, and, by extension, the Second World War.

The longer a boom lasts, the deeper and wider it morphs into the economic system, and the more dire the consequences of its fallout.

Imported, market-based foods pose their own, arguably more dire health consequences in the form of malnutrition, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes [ 49, 66].

The question is not whether we act or not, but whether we do so now or later, and deal with much more dire — and expensive — consequences.