But, as I imagine it was meant to do, it was also reassuring to see what fail-safes and other options exist in even the direst circumstances.
She sat under the boughs of a tree and cried, and her tears formed this pool, this pool the direst of blue to symbolize her sorrow.
Subsequently, it suggested that a less ambitious round could still lift at least 60m people out of the direst poverty.
Having endured the worst tyrannies of the century Nazism and Communism he epitomised the possibility of prevailing in the direst situations.
At the early age of seven, it is stated, he could easily bestraddle a spirited steed, and even retain his seat in the saddle under direst difficulties.
There is no shortage of leftist groups that will tell you so, and in the direst possible terms.
He found the rest to be dedicated and ever ready to race into direst danger for the sake of complete strangers.
And this time, the United States refrained from making the direst of unkeepable threats.
The world's system for fighting the direst cases of mass hunger should not rest on a global sympathy contest umpired by television cameras.
Under the direst circumstances, they not only show their ability to endure, they also continue to find ways to do more with less.
Haiti is a difficult place to work, but Caritas has the community networks which will help it find and help those in the direst need.
But the direst difficulty that I and countless other human rights defenders face is isolation.
He supports ongoing efforts by world leaders to channel energy into imagining the direst scenario.
Even in the direst circumstances, light-heartedness, laughter and falling in love are permissible.
You have learned how to do this in Sudbury and learned how to do it after passing through the direst conditions.
Because I have seen how hope can be cultivated in the direst circumstances, I understand why everyone deserves a second chance.
The euro went into circulation at the beginning of this year without a hitch, despite the direst warnings.
Even when his characters are under-going the direst of tribulations, Selvon has a way of capturing the humour in the situation.
And, indeed, why someone would want to use the drabbest of cliches for the direst of predicaments.
If it is as bad as the direst predictions, the electricity crisis could reverse the recent falls in unemployment.
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The Baltic countries found themselves in the direst situation, since they had to cope with both a currency crisis and a banking crisis at the same time.
Mobihan Gulf with direst access to sea seafront villa set on a beautiful 2 ha landscaped grounds that shelters century olds trees. The villa is spacious and ideal as a family vacation home.
Adverse selection is perhaps the direst threat.
Our land overlooks the meanders of the Semois and gives direst access to our beautiful and majestic forest. The nature and the rural aspect of the place are an invitation to well-being and a pleasant return to our roots.
The direst effects were being felt by the most vulnerable populations, especially children and women, populations living in protracted humanitarian situations, and those living in developing countries.
Emergency respite services were viewed as generally lacking because it was only in the direst circumstances that families could qualify for emergency respite services.
Capable of responding to the direst of emergencies as well as providing a response to everyday life and safety concerns, AXA Assistance is the assistance provider preferred by private individuals and businesses alike.
Even in the direst circumstances, children will play.
It 9 makes use of certain criteria such as relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability to compare actual direst outputs, results and impacts against those targeted during the planning of the project.
Keep in mind that for him, safety means fewer innocents in direst danger.

Remember that the neglect of justice brings with it the direst retribution.
It saved Sweden in the hour of direst distress, rekindling the hope which the battle of Pultowa had extinguished.
No person, even in the direst straits, is anxious to incur a violent death.
Then there happened that which fulfilled my direst premonitions.
India, with poverty, is the direst of all penal settlements.
And they in turn were also reduced to the direst of straits.
In vain did the Sphere, in his voice of thunder, reiterate his command of silence, and threaten me with the direst penalties if I persisted.
Our task is now in reality more difficult than ever, and this new trouble makes every hour of the direst importance.
To the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors.
He thought he shouted these words to his hands, for the undoing of the noose had been succeeded by the direst pang that he had yet experienced.
But here in her direst need Una found new friends in a troupe of fauns and satyrs who were playing in the forest.
She looked like a culprit whom direst vengeance had overtaken at last.
So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.
I have been to pay the parents a visit of condolence, and found them living in the direst poverty and disorder.
Back and forth swayed the fighters, their cudgels pounding this way and that, knocking off splinters and bark, and threatening direst damage to bone and muscle and skin.

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