1 The company is in dire straits.

2 After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.

3 The factory is in dire straits.

4 Everyone agrees the sport is in dire straits.

5 The firm is in dire straits and may go bankrupt.

6 Now that father's lost his job, we're in dire straits.

7 Think of them as a punk Dire Straits.

8 Everton, to put it bluntly, are in dire straits.

9 Working with Dire straits has always been a vocation for me.

10 The team is in such dire straits they've even considered selling their three best players.

11 The result is a society that was in dire straits because its cannibalism turned against itself, involving even small children.

12 He had had little idea of the dire straits prevailing at Berwick nor that time had all but run out.

13 They also do a superb rendition of Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet sung by a drunken man.

14 For those in truly dire straits, bankruptcy is sometimes the only option.

15 Businesses are in especially dire straits.

16 He failed, and is now in dire straits.

17 New York state in dire straits.

18 People living in dire straits, struggling in the death online.

19 By that point, the economy would be in dire straits and the financial system in chaos.

20 The firm is in dire straits ( ie in a very difficult situation ) and may go bankrupt.

21 We were indeed in dire straits. But we pulled through.

22 We should, of course , draw lessons from the dire straits welfare states find themselves in.

23 If we had a child, we'd be in really dire straits.

24 Raymond is a full careerist, to lead the army in the local act, people living in dire straits.

25 You may have heard that a few manufacturers have fallen into dire straits.

26 The Indian granite and natural stone industry is in dire straits.

27 With cyclones of ever increasing severity and the pressure from human population threatening the bird, the Southern Cassowary is in dire straits at the moment.

1 The company is in dire straits.

2 After the war the county's economy was in dire straits.

3 Now that father's lost his job, we're in dire straits.