Examples of dire

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At the same time, the number of cinemas seems to have declined sharply with dire implications for internal film markets.
The author goes on to describe adolescence as a "failed experiment" that has had dire social consequences.
His book was a dire warning to his compatriots, pitched to their prejudices.
The dire budgetary situation also appears through the unemployment rate.
They then warn the unbelievers of the dire punishment that awaits them should they insist on ref using to believe, but to no avail.
The implications were apparent and appeared equally dire to everyone.
Thus, there is a dire need for a critical appraisal of the content and methodological quality of the reviews.
Then, the theistic activist would be in dire straits.
There was also increasing migration, clearly symptomatic of dire poverty.
Her father's business had been nationalized in the first wave of communist reforms, plunging the family into dire poverty.
Witches, by definition, erased the boundary between words and deeds: their "spells" were words made fact, incantations that had dire consequences in the real world.
I was not only a stranger, but a ' ' lost ' ' one in dire need of being saved.
In the case of dire needs she might go out; however, this was an exceptional concession.
Not all early studies, however, predicted such dire outcomes for institutionalized children.
Any such enthusiasm, however, was short-lived in the face of a dire economic situation.
What solutions existed for such a dire national situation in which population was purportedly outstripping resources?
The number of keepers rose, with dire consequences for anything with a hooked beak.
Like all other individuals, justices must be able to support themselves or risk dire financial straits.
In some cases, insensitive officials kept on collecting the "fresh drugs" even when the consequences for the people or the environment were dire.
Most of us are not tempted to change the world so that a lack of chastity has the often dire consequences that it once had.
Groups that secured legislative change were all in economic need, although being in dire straits was not a sufficient condition, as many needy groups were not accorded similar legal protection.
The overall socioeconomic context is dire ; widespread corruption and the impoverishment of the people create a fertile ground for ethnic and regional tensions, which as yet remain rather diffuse.
Firstly, a crucial line was often drawn between acting prudently in dire straits, and devising a premeditated strategy of survival before any tangible threat presented itself.
A closer scrutiny of the facts of the court cases demonstrates that doctors' dire predictions of tragedy if caesarean section was not performed were not always correct.
The play highlights both the dire consequences of a lack of collective consciousness and the way the changes in management techniques have caused the world of work to disintegrate.
Although the damage to the macro-economy is projected to be slight, the consequences for affected households will be dire, and social indicators such as life expectancy will deteriorate dramatically.
Coresidence of the aged with their children in the nineteenth century was not merely a form of old-age support, resorted to only in cases of dire necessity.
There is a dire need to re-bureaucratise the state, re-formalise the economy, and institute mechanisms that foster transparency among public officials and public confidence in state institutions.
Thus, the petitioners warned that the dissolution of the baladiyya would have dire and disorganizing effects on the sanitary regime and built form of the town.
The newcomers thus had to nd protection and o-cial representation with their reluctant bedouin hosts or su^er the dire consequences of misrecognition by the state.
To regard ourselves as immune from all the possibilities of a return of the full disease is to harbour the delusion that may have the most dire consequences.
Public debate on the immigration issue generally kept a low profile through the 1960s; integration efforts prevailed and the economy was in dire need of the immigrants' contribution.
Accepting that dire mystique of age for others, even as we deny it for ourselves, we ultimately create or reinforce the conditions of our own dependence, powerlessness, isolation, even senility.
The word is sometimes used metaphorically to connote an unstoppable process of destruction, and indeed some forms of brain cancer present the most dire prognosis of any cancer.
In the case of dire trouble it would unquestionably preserve the life of a ship for a considerable period.
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