Sentence examples for to dire effect from inspiring English sources
And yet, the Taliban unfortunately continue to operate, to dire effect.
He had experienced lavish living for a period as the protege of Lord and Lady Holland, and this made him alert to the dire effects of fashionable worldliness on an artist's creative energies.
Corruption continues to have a dire effect on the global economy.
It is hard to exaggerate the dire effect which the failure at Copenhagen has had both on the climate change negotiating process itself, and on the belief of those involved that an effective climate deal might be possible.
If information is imperfect and the seller needs to price goods based on the expected willingness to pay by consumers, it may be a better long-term strategy to set the price slightly lower to avoid the dire effects of losing trades by setting the price to high.
The student occupation took place around the time of the national strike called by the Universities and Colleges union, an event that spurred the Coleraine administration to send an email to its staff reminding them of the dire effect this exercise of their democratic right might have.
But here's the problem: for loose monetary policy to have the dire effects the sadomonetarists claim, markets must massively get it wrong, and hugely overreact to low interest rates.
The combined reductions would total more than 4percentt of New York hospitals' total incomes — well over $1 billion a year — a prospect that left industry officials and elected officials struggling to describe the dire effects.
"All of the political leaders came out and warned Arizonans that this was going to have very dire effects on a number of levels," Ms. Short said after votes for the measure pulled into the lead late Friday.
Perturbations to LMNA have dire effects on the cellular processes, including the cell cycle.
The speed of the sex strike's dire effect didn't seem unlikely to anyone in our all-girl production, even if it was startling.
