It's a dire scenario for a team desperately in need of an infusion of skill and enthusiasm.

All these dire scenarios played themselves out in Yasujiro's mind as he waited, waited, hour after hour.

If it decides to compromise and wait for August, dire scenarios need not come to pass.

Her winning has been accompanied by a series of increasingly dire scenarios, anomalies, as we call them, which are threatening all civilization.

The direst scenarios predict an eventual wave of extinctions comparable to the one 65 million years ago in which the dinosaurs disappeared.

None of the dire scenarios that flourished during the the pre-election turmoil have come to pass.

Able to imagine only dire scenarios, they finally concluded that they simply could not know what was happening and divided themselves into two traveling groups.

But Barak tends to tune out dire scenarios and doubts.

He was so lost in the dire scenario that he didn't hear Scott's comments.

"But I'm reluctant to paint a dire scenario, based on what I know today, on a national basis."