Sentence examples for more dire problem from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cannon, along with a number of conservative theorists, contend that spending on unneeded procedures, medical errors and hospital infections is a more dire problem than the cost of caring for the uninsured.

California has much more dire problems with water scarcity, and reform is desperately needed to ration supplies and encourage conservation, according to Zetland.

Saxony-Anhalt has significantly more dire economic problems than most of Germany, with the lowest per-capita income and highest unemployment (20percentt) of any German state.

In some cases, patents appear to be getting used as a resource of last resort for companies with bigger, more dire financial problems.

The larger art world faces a problem more dire than the auctions reveal, and the damage cannot be postponed for long.

It sounds less like humanity's most dire problem and more like a James Taylor song about wanting to move out of the city to the country.

With Ledley King's injury problems ever more dire, they need cover for Michael Dawson and William Gallas at centre-back.

The court ruled that this led the public to believe that the authority's problems were more dire than they actually were and, as a result, public debate about an increase was dampened.

For Johnny, the problem can be more dire.

The problem grew even more dire as travel photography transitioned from a hobby to perhaps the ultimate signifier of the inauthentic and the conformist.

He is one of many school officials in Westchester who say the problem has become more dire lately, because today's students carry around small expensive accessories that are easy to steal, like cellphones, iPods and graphing calculators.