1.   He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.

2.   When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.

3.   The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.

4.   Almost immediately, there were dire predictions of cartoonish presentations of the games, as well as disastrous financial losses for the network.

5.   And for years, it seemed as if the dire predictions might come true.

6.   Arthur does fly, despite that dire prediction.

7.   As Congress ponders a law that would allow patients to sue HMOs for medical malpractice, Washington is being swamped with dire predictions from critics.

8.   As is often the case when a radical new policy is instituted, some pretty dire predictions accompanied the activation of a salary cap in the NFL this year.

9.   Alarmists have weighed in with dire predictions of how a warming of tropical and subtropical regions will aggravate the scourge of tropical diseases.