I fear that it is the most dire threat of all to the Balance.

How could either of these timid suggestions represent a dire threat to public health?

These dire threats, clearly heard by the Mouser and half believed, were too much.

However, it is true that Medicare faces a dire threat.

Don't bother to wake me to convey their next dire threat.

Now we're confronted with the dire threat of global warming, and as usual there is no plan.

Serfdom was becoming a dire threat to both domestic and foreign security.

You don't know the agony the Council underwent, trying to determine how best to fight this dire threat.

The analysts check their personal networks for the most dire daily threats and bring them to the group.

So the sense of another dire threat to Poland no longer comes from outside.