Mr. McGreevey's plan was prompted by a dire report in March from a panel he had appointed.

The news broke a stream of dire reports about Fiat in recent months.

Like you, I've been reading dire reports of declining species for many years now.

Now, as it trickled out, it was drowned by the cacophony of dire reports from City Hall.

In 2007, Nemertes Research released a dire report on Internet traffic.

But after a season of terrorist attacks and dire reports of hard economic times, Brianna changed her mind.

With a third of the season vanished, the union finally acknowledged the league's dire fiscal reports, ledgers it once bashed as fuzzy math.

The armsman looked beyond me into the hollow, and I saw that he guessed what dire report I must make now.

On Wednesday, safety officials in Guangxi called the dire reports in a few scattered papers grossly exaggerated.

After the turbines were engaged, it took only half a minute before the first dire report came into the control room.