We should, of course, draw lessons from the dire straits welfare states find themselves in.
Raymond is a full careerist, to lead the army in the local act, people living in dire straits.
"My friends, whom I know are in dire straits financially, do not like talking about money, business or investing. They often think it rude or unintellectual."
The factory is in dire straits.
As a result, he will leave behind him a country in dire straits.
The U.S. government also has the ability to print that global reserve currency when dire straits demand it.
We hoped the enemy would conclude that we were making another, unusually ambitious attempt to reinforce Malta, which had been in dire straits for months.
The firm is in dire straits and may go bankrupt.
What: Heavy rains have caused severe flooding throughout Africa this summer, and both Chad and Ethiopia are in dire straits.
Though there are indeed people who are in dire straits and need immediate help, most of the people we generally call "poor" are not as poor as anticapitalists make them out to be.
Be surrounded by the enemy on four sides; be in dire straits
A large part of Su Shi's works contains a moving and tragic style which is of a school, and of a hero in dire straits.
You may have heard that a few manufacturers have fallen into dire straits.
Farmers' lives are in dire straits. What about them?
But many other economists and many voters think that in a time of fiscal dire straits, "tax cuts" (especially on the richest earners) are morally unjustifiable and economically reckless.
Because of the long civil war, people in the region are living in dire straits.
(Actually the stereotype of really dire poverty is that meal, minus even the onions—“two dry rotis with a pinch of salt” is the North Indian shorthand for being in really dire straits).
If we can accomplish this task in a few years, we shall be in a position to deal with any emergency and can avoid falling into dire straits.
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