Take away the weight of the Capitals' history, and the team's plight doesn't look so dire.
So if matters are so dire, why did the Donald leave the race, if only temporarily?
Her security situation eventually became so dire that she moved to the U.S. in 2002.
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Some worry that her relations with Congress have become so dire that her own Trinamool party may leave the coalition.
There are problems, and they deserve attention, but nothing remotely so dire as most of the green movement keeps saying.
Brennan develops a theory of what it means to vote ethically given that the consequences of bad governance are so dire.
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GM's crisis is so dire that the company might well be able to achieve significant concessions without having to file for bankruptcy.
By last September the financial situation at Pdvsa had gotten so dire that the company was paying service providers with IOUs.
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The plight of women in the U.S. is obviously not so dire.
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But that, said the governor of the central bank sadly, was only because the economic situation was so dire to begin with.
"I had no education, no job and was desperate, " Hosni told me in a surprisingly clear voice for someone whose situation seemed so dire.
The situation has become so dire that the government consumes all it collects in revenue, leaving it with little or no savings to finance investments.
We did after all, try to ban alcohol once by amending the Constitution, and the consequences were so dire that we had to amend it again.
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The state of images and illustration is so dire that even the images on Getty or Corbis look incredible compared the swamp that is overflowing in our daily lives.
Meanwhile, McCain's money problems no longer look so dire.
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The approach was pioneered in 2001 on a four-year-old boy called Mohammed from West Yorkshire, whose condition was so dire doctors said they had little choice but to opt for an untested treatment.
Last fall, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, said he thought the drug war violence had become so dire that U.S. troops could be sent into Mexico.
It was designed so that it never came to pass, because Congress, understanding the consequences of failure, understanding the consequences of inaction, the consequences of being unwilling to take a balanced approach, were so dire.
It found a litany of problems, including a shortage of nurses so dire that staff did not have the time to wash their hands between patients and on some occasions even told those in their care to "go in their beds".
So in those dire circumstances, one and a half steps forward from eurozone government heads are almost as bad as none at all, when investors want the full two.
Kahn acknowledges that tapping your IRA should be a last resort, but says that for those who do so out of dire need, Congress should provide relief from the 10% penalty.
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To be sure, there are plenty of stories from the liberal-left that pull no punches: John Judis in a recent issue of the New Republic presents a reasoned dissection of the administration's failure to engage in the theatricality of populism, which FDR so ably did in similarly dire circumstances.
So far, the airline remains in dire straits with many employees still not getting paid back pay promised earlier in the year.
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And so trying to let people know how dire the situation is because most people look back and say, you know, I remember the good old times.
Not because things are dire, but because things are so hopeful.
There was a dire need to "do something" and so a huge clean up operation began including widespread use of detergents.
"I take the view that with our economy in such dire straights we simply cannot afford to allow so many of our people essentially to be signed off into different areas, " he said.
It also suggests that, so great is the impact of home office locale, the dire needs of an entire domestic region can go untended.
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