Sentence examples for under a dire from inspiring English sources
They are under a dire, dire threat.
Meanwhile, according to Mihailo Volynets, the economy is under a dire threat, since more than 95% of Ukraine's domestic energy resources are in the form of coal.
Several plants are powered by 18 GE-built gas turbines from the 1980s and 1990s, which couldn't be serviced under sanctions and are in a dire state.
The procedure was permitted under a "compassionate use" exception that allows researchers under certain dire circumstances to make a treatment available even though it is not approved by regulators for general use.
Tens of thousands of Nuer have taken shelter in UN camps in South Sudan under often dire conditions as a peace deal, signed a year ago, threatens to fall by the wayside amid continued fighting.
Instead, we attempted to estimate the population that is likely to seek care and assumed that under the dire circumstances of a severe pandemic facilities would decrease standards of care, open alternate sites of care, and creatively care for those patients who came for treatment.
Even when his characters are under-going the direst of tribulations, Selvon has a way of capturing the humour in the situation.
Under such dire circumstances, the borders of a protected area are rarely a meaningful deterrent.
Rather, it was a negotiation conducted under dire circumstances, and its resolution merely kicked the can to the so-called fiscal cliff we'll hit in January, when budget cuts will be imposed across the board unless Congress and President Obama unwind what they agreed to.
There are obviously going to be issues with this approach; under the dire network circumstances in a congested conference hall with very crowded Wi-Fi, performance was somewhat laggy on both an iPad and an Android smartphone Nubo founder Israel Lifshitz used to demo the product.
"There are increasing reports about hundreds of thousands of people living out in the open under very dire conditions" in Kosovo, a senior NATO diplomat said.
