She has thick hair that hadn't been cut for two years, so the ends were in dire condition.

Dealing with the dire condition of the party body itself should be an urgent political priority.

She agreed that the dire condition of the property — after only a six-month let — was all her fault and that she would lose the whole deposit.

For decades, the nation's political dialogue has revolved around poverty alleviation, food and fuel subsidies and the dire condition of the great majority of its citizens — and voters.

He was incisive, and sympathetic to those to whom he spoke, while also illuminating their dire conditions.

But in dire emergency, it may become a necessity.

Most people would agree that, compared with the dire emergency then, things are better now.

Only in a dire emergency will the boat surface or send a signal.

He agreed to take the coaching job in a dire emergency.

Although no longer vested with judicial powers, they are still used as combat units in dire emergencies.

It follows dire forecasts from experts predicting more than a million youngsters will be out of work this year.

Retailers are braced for a wave of redundancies after a torrent of dire forecasts and bad news.

In te of dire forecasts, the cruise ships still not disgorging boatloads of ssengers.

Especially when their dire forecasts prove false.

The fund's call for still more farreaching measures to boost global growth came as it drastically cut its already dire forecasts for all of the world's big economies.

He said that he understood the dire implications for the industry.

But spiritual poverty and blindness had dire implications of their own.

Both times she pulled out - once because she had a sore throat which, for a singer, has dire implications, and once because she didn't want to do it.

But legal experts predicted dire implications after the judge ruled all suspects be protected under human rights law.

But that, surely, would be a dire outcome in any case.

This dire outcome can still be avoided.

This new proposal resulted in a dire outcome.

Confronted with such a dire threat, the bird returned to the mainland and waited for the hurricane to pass before making a second, successful, attempt at the sea crossing.

The central issue of investor-state dispute settlement has been blown up into a dire threat to democracy and the rule of law.

Into this already perilous situation came a new dire threat - some kind of mysterious force destroying the ships one by one.

Many were the unkind words and dire threats exchanged in the kitchen and hallway when their paths crossed.

She high-mindedly refuses, and he leaves amid dire threats.

He sounded like someone who had spent a lifetime having his increasingly dire warnings ignored and this time he snapped.

Given the increasingly dire economic signs, they are unlikely to be the last.

The subject was high on the agenda in the many private meetings between heads of state, and in public, too, delegates heard a string of increasingly dire exhortations.

As ever, his response to potentially dire circumstances was that of a champion.

The report's authors gave warning of potentially dire consequences.

Without this protection there would be no check on what was entering our food chain, with potentially dire consequences.

To be honest, wading through their list was a pretty dire start to our day too.

The situation was getting pretty dire for them.

When the biggest cheers of the day came with the post-match farewells to their respective stand-in gaffers, you know it has been pretty dire.

It was, in the main, a pretty dire game, punctuated by occasional outbreaks of better stuff.

Some married couples do divorce and get back together again, but the statistics are pretty dire.