Because of the city's dire economic condition, however, this time arts groups believed the threat was more real.

Despite the dire condition of the Cuban economy, the country does have limited access to dollars.

For resistance members, this conviction helped them continue their fight in dire conditions.

Current tenants would probably have lost their housing, or lived much longer in dire conditions.

By the mid-19th century the buildings were in a dire condition.

Too many women I knew acted as if pregnancy was a dire medical condition.

Kirk shrugged as if his son hadn't been missing under dire conditions for the past two days.

But that, he said, did not lead him to believe the company was in dire condition.

Both the gateways, though much altered recently are still in dire condition.

Their goal was to expose a government cover-up of the workers' dire conditions.