| Anyone in dire straits because of the floods should turn to the official appeal for help. |
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| Seeing local hospitals in dire straits, she convinced British drug manufacturers to donate medicine, which she later took to Russia. |
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| If the U.S. pushes too hard, Japan can threaten to repatriate the assets, leaving the U.S. economy in dire straits. |
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| That leaves county schools in dire straits, with many already having to unravel established teaching practices. |
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| Schools in this country, in the government system now are in dire straits in many cases. |
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| But I, like many newer Canadians, do not carry the weight of having placed them in dire straits. |
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| He added that City had been in dire straits several times before and had always managed to scrape their way clear. |
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| The organisation, founded two months ago, not only tries to help victims in dire straits, but also helps to arrange funerals for those killed. |
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| Much of the money at the moment is poured into the primary sector in health, leaving the secondary sector in dire straits. |
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| Even with unwavering support from communities, most clubs are in dire straits. |
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| Folk were in dire straits and because it was my home territory, I understood. |
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| I believe we all agree, given the debt to equity ratio, that Nova Scotia and Newfoundland were in dire straits. |
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| So far European economic policy has not been designed to act as a locomotive to take over the lead in the world economy and the Japanese economy is in dire straits. |
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| In order not to be viewed as a family in dire straits, many families turned inward to avoid further shame. |
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| I am increasingly concerned that the bill will put first nations that are already in dire straits in even greater dire straits. |
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| Look at the anger of farmers or small-scale fishermen who are in dire straits. |
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| It gave us a stern warning that democracy would be in dire straits if this trend were allowed to proceed. |
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| However, other data showed that the Japanese economy was still in dire straits. |
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| It is not acceptable for someone who is in dire straits to be compared with someone in the developing world. |
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| There are increasing numbers of people out there in dire straits, not just single people but there are families. |
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| But the fundamental question is: How can a person in dire straits be persuaded that his child is not old enough to work? |
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| So in terms of the health of the first nations, we're in dire straits, and anything new that comes along adds to these dire straits. |
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| He also notes that the government itself calculates that 2,500 producers are in dire straits. |
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| The Food Bank provides one-time emergency grocery assistance to those in dire straits, as well as providing one hot meal a week for about a month. |
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| In the 1840s, St Peter's School was in dire straits and about to close. |
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| We do not believe that the country would really be in dire straits if we extended leave provisions to casual workers, the low-paid, or young people. |
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| Farmers are in dire straits and not far behind them are the road hauliers. |
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| They, like the Liberals, are applying the Canada Health Act as a hammer to penalize the provinces, which are in dire straits because of lack of funds and increasing pressures on the system. |
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| Local museums are like canaries in the mines: if the museum is in dire straits, it likely means that the town is in dire straits and that in fact there is trouble in many other sectors of the community already. |
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| From nonage to dotage, in dire straits or in the pink, he was always a capricious entrepreneur, counting the zeroes on an imaginary balance sheet. |
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| The economy is in dire straits, let's not get less vigilant and cautious. |
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| Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock. |
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| The firm is in dire straits due to stagnating sales and the reorientation of the filling stations market. |
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| Now it is in dire straits, losing jobs every day. |
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| Now that we are in dire straits, Canada is not supporting us. |
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| They are in dire straits as criminals on the one hand, since they do not have any residence permits, but as victims, on the other hand, because they are mercilessly exploited by the human traffickers. |
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| Will the government admit the obvious and will it recognize that cutting programs at a time when people are in dire straits is not the way to curb the deficit? |
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| Those who manage to struggle along are in dire straits if crises arise. |
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| The objective here was to assist two provinces that were in dire straits. |
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| This is why the European Council urged the Burmese authorities to introduce urgent measures facilitating access to help for people who are in dire straits. |
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| As well, why would the Prime Minister provoke, and literally attack, the official opposition party, when it was already in dire straits in terms of the election? |
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| The people who are affected are truly in dire straits. |
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| Chen in late 2013 who took the gearstick at Blackberry when the company was in dire straits has spent the past year stabilizing the smartphone industry pioneer. |
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