Sentence examples for more dire forecast from inspiring English sources

Gary J. Dellaverson, the authority's chief financial officer, said he was working last week to revise the budget using the latest projections of declining regional employment when the city comptroller, William C. Thompson Jr., released an even more dire forecast.

Now add to that parade of potential horrors one more: a freakish two-in-one storm that could, if the more dire forecasts prove correct, warp an election two years and $2 billion in the making.

The more modest temperature increases, the researchers say, could reduce rice yields by 20 to 40percentt by 2100, while the larger increases predicted by more dire forecasts could cut rice production essentially to zero.

Fierce winds and heavy rain have battered the south-west of England for weeks and more dire weather is forecast in the coming days.

The mayor's short-term forecast was more dire: It called for a 7.5percentt decrease in the gross city product this year and an additional 1.3percentt shrinkage in 2009.

Yet with anemic property tax revenues and forecasts of more dire financial times ahead, some experts and elected leaders fear that more localities may have to at least consider bankruptcy.

The cautiously upbeat tone of Mr. Greenspan's testimony was in contrast to the Bush administration's more dire warnings about the economy and the even darker forecasts made over the last month by some Wall Street analysts.

His plight should become more dire this month, when the government releases projections showing that the federal surplus will be much smaller than was forecast only a few weeks ago.

Others are more dire.

Others offered more dire assessments.

A generation later, we're nowhere near that dire forecast.