Sentence examples for more dire situations from inspiring English sources

In more dire situations, however, the state must act.

Applying for jobs is unpleasant.It combines the tedium of filling out endless paperwork with the existential question of what you really want to do or, in more dire situations, whether there's anything out there for you.

Some regions of the world have more dire situations than others, but even within one country there can be broad disparities – between city and rural children, for example, or between boys and girls.

"I could not imagine a more dire situation in all of Afghanistan," he says.

The new year would probably bring "closing of stores and, I think, closing of retailers," he said, adding, "It's a more dire situation than many had anticipated".

It must also permit us — and this is critical — to focus more American resources and influence on the far more dire situation in Pakistan.

Now the Penguins face an even more dire situation — only one of 31 teams that lost their first two games on the road have won the Stanley Cup.

"If the American Airlines Flight 11 that flew down the Hudson River had, instead of hitting the twin towers in New York, banked left and hit the twin towers of Indian Point, we would have a much more dire situation than we're facing now," Mr. Kennedy said.

Or, in a more dire situation, replaces the brakes with some off-brand ones, which then fail and cause an accident.

"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.

The wildlife group revisited the zoo again early this month and determined that the bears were in an even more dire situation than last year.