This, he said, represented a dire health threat.
The next few months, filled with holiday feasting, represent a dire threat to most people's waistlines.
It represented a dire threat to the voluntarist premises of American philanthropy: the idea that donors can do whatever they wish with their money, and that this freedom is precisely what makes philanthropy so vital to American democracy.
The show also represents a chance at redemption, and despite, or rather because of, the dire forecast of my inbox, the appeal of discovering stories actually worth telling is greater still.
But they both represent a much more dire threat, the one embodied in Orwell's famous quote that "He who controls the past controls the future".
Speaking to reporters in the City Hall rotunda about 10 30 p.m., Mr. Bloomberg and the Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, said the budget deal represented a reasonable balance given dire circumstances.
It is also in a dire state, and one can understand Mr Renzi's decision to prioritise it: the civil-justice system's poor condition represents an obstacle to much-needed foreign investment in the Italian economy.
Speaking to America's Community Bankers, a group representing smaller banks across the nation, the Federal Reserve chairman said the record level of debt being carried by American households does not seem to constitute a dire threat to U.S. economic well-being.
That, however, doesn't appear to be a dire situation.
The divine being Macardit represents the dire and fatal aspect of the divinity who orders everything that is to say, who also sends misfortune and death.
