How To Use Dire straits In A Sentence
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Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits.
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The local authorities are in dire straits financially.
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Schools in this country, in the government system now are in dire straits in many cases.
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What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits.
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People come up with the best ideas when they are in dire straits.
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The Food Bank provides one-time emergency grocery assistance to those in dire straits, as well as providing one hot meal a week for about a month.
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After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
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The Indian granite and natural stone industry is in dire straits.
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There was a pride about her, even though she was in dire straits.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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'You are, as I remember the cricket commentators used to say, in dire straits.
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Anyone in dire straits because of the floods should turn to the official appeal for help.
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As most people are now aware farming has been in dire straits in recent years and the reason that most of them are surviving is due to the grants they receive from the Government.
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The factory is in dire straits.
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What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits.
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He's in financial dire straits.
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We do not believe that the country would really be in dire straits if we extended leave provisions to casual workers, the low-paid, or young people.
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That leaves county schools in dire straits, with many already having to unravel established teaching practices.
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People come up with the best ideas when they are in dire straits.
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After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
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We are compelled to do this when we are in dire straits.
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Farmers are in dire straits and not far behind them are the road hauliers.
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Wine industry officials in Sonoma, Mendocino and Napa counties say that while cabernet is in a rough patch, merlot may be in dire straits due to market vagaries and celluloid influence.
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He added that City had been in dire straits several times before and had always managed to scrape their way clear.
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Folk were in dire straits and because it was my home territory, I understood.
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When you were in dire straits she was superb.
The Glasgow Girls
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People are very reluctant to accept pay cuts, even when the company is in pretty dire straits.
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How dare he enjoy himself with England in such dire straits!
Times, Sunday Times
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People come up with the best ideas when they are in dire straits.
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When you were in dire straits she was superb.
The Glasgow Girls
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‘People pass other climbers who are clearly in dire straits,’ says Tom Sjogren.
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After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.
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The organisation, founded two months ago, not only tries to help victims in dire straits, but also helps to arrange funerals for those killed.
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So far European economic policy has not been designed to act as a locomotive to take over the lead in the world economy and the Japanese economy is in dire straits.
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What is not in dispute is that thousands of people in this part of the world are in dire straits.
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The integrity of international sport is in dire straits.
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Even with unwavering support from communities, most clubs are in dire straits.
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My dad had booked a special reunion concert by 80s rock legends, Dire Straits.
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The cuts have been imposed by central Government because the economy is in dire straits.
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If the U.S. pushes too hard, Japan can threaten to repatriate the assets, leaving the U.S. economy in dire straits.
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I can see (as in foresee, not agree) someone in dire straits noticing deer travelling through their yard at night and bushwacking one for meat.
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In the 1840s, St Peter's School was in dire straits and about to close.
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The integrity of international sport is in dire straits.
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The integrity of international sport is in dire straits.
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The industry in America is in dire straits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The commission argues that the fishery must be restricted since cod, in desperately dire straits, is caught as a so-called by-catch of the prawn fishery.
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When you were in dire straits she was superb.
The Glasgow Girls
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No wonder we're in financial dire straits when we're so easily led into going along with it and spending money to vote.
The Sun
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Seeing local hospitals in dire straits, she convinced British drug manufacturers to donate medicine, which she later took to Russia.
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Currently, both pilot groups are working under concessionary terms negotiated years ago when the industry was in dire straits.
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But Wisconsin is arguably in the most dire straits.
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But I, like many newer Canadians, do not carry the weight of having placed them in dire straits.