Sentence examples for or dire from inspiring English sources

Is it entertainment or dire political prophecy?

Her music is less schmaltzy or dire than similar fare by Dido or Beth Orton.

But how? Who's to say what constitutes a family emergency or dire need?

And most of these are performed in cases of severe fetal abnormalities or dire health risks to the mother.

(Romney says he opposes abortion except in cases of rape, incest or dire threat to the mother.

I half expected to find a pair of giant stone gates barring our way, etched with runes or dire Latin inscriptions.

Residents of Djibouti Ville often migrate during the months of May-September to avoid the excessive heat to Hargeisa in Somaliland or Dire-Dawa in Ethiopia.

Non-LTR retrotransposons are abundant in the genome of T. brucei and T. cruzi; by contrast, retroelements are absent from the L. major genome, where only remnants of degenerated ingi/L1Tc-related elements (or DIREs) are detectable (the L. major haploid genome contains 52 DIREs).

For some welfare recipients, a few dollars might mean the difference between walking or taking the bus -- or, in dire cases, eating or not.

Others said the collector harassed them by calling repeatedly or continually, used obscene language or threatened dire consequences if no payment was forthcoming.

It was time to go — or face dire consequences.