Sentence examples for two dire from inspiring English sources

Obesity and global warming are two dire social problems you have highlighted.

Falcao may not strike fear into the hearts of the travelling fans but Spurs need to be wary as he seems to be finding his feet once more after two dire years in the Premier League.

America stills lives in an acutely anxious post-9/11 state... "My personal judgment is that the war on terror, on balance, has had two dire effects: one, we are less safe as a consequence due to the great number of persons that our actions have recruited and motivated to support terrorist acts against the United States; and, two, we have seriously weakened our civil liberties.

But all have one dire weakness: less money for lawyers.

After five dire minutes he clapped his hands.

Even a casual trawl through the headlines of the time turns up one dire pronouncement after another.

Don't, by the way, buy this book for the sex: there is little to none, but for one dire masturbation situation.

He and his successors centralised much of the power of government in London where, to increasing Scottish irritation, most of it was to stay until 1999, when Scotland got back its Parliament and a "first minister" with wide powers.That union of the crowns had already had one dire effect, though just how dire was not to be seen until the 19th and 20th centuries.

No three people could ever represent a country that covers an area larger than all 28 EU countries combined, let alone one with a population of 200 million, dire social inequality and an ethnic mix of descendants from all corners of the world.

Bradshaw added: "It takes its audience to a zen state beyond pointlessness, an incoherent CGI world created by an army of execs at a million dire meetings, grimly hashing out the ways in which the profitability of the first film could be continued and maximised by pinching plot points from Frozen, and set-dressing from Narnia and Middle-earth".

"We gave away three dire goals and we got punished".