Sentence examples for rather dire from inspiring English sources

"The car flipped and dropped on me, with rather dire consequences," he said.

As much as possible, under rather dire circumstances, he has fought to preserve his physical health and mental stability.

And Mr Bernanke seems unlikely to open the monetary spigot except under rather dire conditions, in which case Mr Obama's fate would be sealed.

The prospect, on this night of what was supposed to be the latest piece of earnest retrenchment by a broken England, was suddenly of rather dire humiliation.

That's an awful lot to accomplish in one night, especially considering that Mr. Romney's chances had begun to look rather dire before the debate.

Against this rather dire backdrop emerged glimmers of hope for peoples in North Africa and the Middle East as waves of democratic movements spread in the so-called Arab Spring.

Rather, the dire state of the economy has reduced incomes and made more people eligible for benefits, especially unemployment benefits.

Despite historic highs in transportation spending, the political muscle of lawmakers, rather than dire need, has typically driven where much of the money goes.

(In BP's telling, rather than a dire threat, a spill emerges as an all-you-can-eat buffet for aquatic life).

Some Republicans expressed alarm about Mr. Obama's shift, saying it was a mistake to go back to the days when terrorism was seen as a manageable law enforcement problem rather than a dire threat.

Goldman Sachs in a report Friday suggested that global uncertainty might shave a half point off American gross domestic product for 2011, which its economists view as a flesh wound rather than a dire blow.