Sentence examples for range of dire from inspiring English sources

Late last month, as a voter-registration drive by supporters of Senator Barack Obama was signing up thousands of students at Virginia Tech, the local registrar of elections issued two releases incorrectly suggesting a range of dire possibilities for students who registered to vote at their college.

RDM samples a wider range of dire, benign and opportune futures and offers a holistic assessment of the performance of different options.

Barry Beckett, an Alabama-born keyboardist who helped create the distinctly Southern amalgamation of rhythm and blues, soul and country that became known as the Muscle Shoals sound, and who as a producer recorded a wide range of music with Bob Dylan, Kenny Chesney, Bob Seger, Dire Straits and others, died on Wednesday at his home in Hendersonville, Tenn., north of Nashville.

If the financial markets conclude that our two political parties will continue this game of chicken no matter how large and fast-growing the debt, the wide range of possible consequences is uniformly dire.

So far, the reviews range from dire to abysmal.

This week saw a series of dire warnings.

The Syrian crisis offers fresh evidence of dire relations.

The mean annual temperature of Dire Dawa is about 25.4 °C.

A large proportion of youth unemployment, 12%, is observable in Melka Jebdu area of Dire Dawa.

The above table shows there is no self-employment in Gedenser rural Kebele of Dire Dawa.

One of dire challenges we confronted with is the nonrepeatability of device fabrication.