1.   Peggy realized what dire financial straits she was in when her husband died.

2.   The company is in dire financial straits.

3.   The firm is now in dire financial straits.

4.   It pull them in dire financial straits.

5.   And it illustrates the dire economic straits of U.S., European and Asia-Pacific airlines over the past five years.

6.   As the Taliban militia trapped in Kunduz sought a way out of their dire military straits, U.S. warplanes bombed Taliban positions on the front lines outside the city.

7.   After two decades of one-party rule under Mugabe, Zimbabwe lies in dire economic straits.

8.   But the war is costly, especially for Angola, which has a renewed civil war at home, and for Zimbabwe, which is in dire financial straits.

9.   But the reality behind the nationalist posturing is that the collapse of the Soviet economy has left the Kuriles in dire economic straits.