Sentence examples similar to on account of dire straits from inspiring English sources

Musicians like Van Morrison, Shane MacGowan, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and alt-country superstar Steve Earle became regular collaborators.

Now those are the kind of dire straits I'd like to be in.

Most of Dire Straits joined Knopfler for a canter through their catalogue in the second hour.

John Illsley, bass guitarist of Dire Straits shares his memories of the decade.

But North Korea, by all accounts, is in dire straits.

The city coordinator for the homeless, Terry Hill, said he was working on a variety of solutions, both short-term and long, for people in dire straits.

At this point, the future of the music documentary seemed to be in dire straits.

Arts organizations that depend largely on government support are in dire straits in New York because of significant drops in tax revenue, Mr. Weiss said.

Means testing imposes a considerable and often humiliating burden on families to prove their dire straits, not to mention an avalanche of paperwork and significant overhead expense.

The Department of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury (OFAC) hit Deripaska with sanctions on April 6, putting Rusal in dire straits.

Tourism, the country's big industry, accounting for more than 15% of GDP, is in dire straits: revenues look like shrinking by up to 9% compared with 2009, itself a bad year.