Sentence examples for more dire problems from inspiring English sources

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

"...but I think that the most likely reason of all, may have been that his heart was two sizes too small". The first thing that comes to my mind these days is that this sounds like a fatality in the making, and the Grinch really has more dire problems besides a lot of Who-singing and Who-feasting.

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.

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.

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.

The problems are even more dire at the state and municipal levels.

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.