Sentence examples for was dire enough from inspiring English sources

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was asked at his afternoon news conference Wednesday why the city was not ordering evacuations if the meteorological threat was dire enough to drive out FEMA. "We do not believe it's necessary to evacuate people," he said.

They were dire enough, as it turned out.

But even the most quantifiable drawbacks of fuel subsidies are dire enough.

Never mind the recent past, the present is dire enough for Mallett.

For starters, the test's worst-case assumptions may not be dire enough.

The union has insisted that owners provide financial information to prove their situation is dire enough to merit a rollback.

But this isn't the case and the current situation is dire enough to require some triage.

But the president was no more combative than usual toward the Republican-controlled House, suggesting that the situation is dire enough that it may call for cooperation rather than another round of finger-pointing.

Some scientists have argued that this is a low-ball number — though it's dire enough if you live in Far Rockaway — but there hasn't been much debate about timescale.

By the time things are dire enough to acknowledge a need for outside help, one is rarely in the position to weed out the right kind of help from the wrong.

Given that the IPCC report predicts surface temperatures will reach similar levels during the next 100 years, the panel's dire forecast may not be dire enough.