It is a slippery slope. And, we're not careful, before we know it all of us will be in a much more dire situation."

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

The defenses had to do with necessity, their dire circumstance, and, implicitly at least, the idea that numbers matter.

有人说他们在那样的处境下，不得已而为之，并且暗含了“人数重要“的理念。

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He separated from her because of dire necessity.

而他又在流亡中与妻子走散

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The situation is very dire, because all the survivors are sleeping out in the streets."

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

That's how dire the environment has become.

环境现在变得如此恶劣

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Some analysts are warning of dire consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians if Mr.Netanyahu's government does not relent and start working toward a two-state solution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said AIG's bankruptcy would have made a dire financial crisis far worse, possibly turning an economic recession into a prolonged depression.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

With the family in a dire situation, the woman had to ask her husband and mother-in-law for permission to sell the tapestries and crafts she could produce.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

And he also says the dire assessment of the security situation by General Stanley McChrystal, the new U.S.and NATO commander in Afghanistan, has presented senior officials with an issue they did not expect.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

"So,we think this is going to create a very dire situation where some of us might think of it as genocide by other means rather than by bullets - killing these people slowly through starvation, disease and lack of sanitation,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

"Right now we have about They get one package of food every two weeks, a total of six packages if they are really in dire circumstances then we sometimes renew their order and send them another six packages."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09