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Significados de desperate straits en inglés

A state of extreme distress.

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Examples for "dire straits"
Examples for "dire straits"
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On the production side Mexico's oil industry is in dire straits, however.
Reuters
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Carillion, for example, continued to win contracts despite being in dire straits.
The Guardian
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It is clear why our train services are in such dire straits.
The South African
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Dr Mulvihill said the men she had met were in dire straits.
Radio NZ
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But given its dire straits, WeWork was fortunate to have a choice.
Reuters
Uso de desperate straits en inglés
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The economy is not in desperate straits yet, but confidence appears shaken.
Reuters
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The next few years therefore found the colony again in desperate straits.
Crusaders of New France / A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the...
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Never in her humble life had Nakpa been in more desperate straits.
Old Indian Days
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Thus in desperate straits Toby Vanderwiller had accepted help from Gedney Raffer.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
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She knew that Winifred Waverly had never been in such desperate straits.
Six Feet Four
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Being driven to desperate straits, the priest tried a rather doubtful shift.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 / From the Alleghanies to the ...
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But as his company was in desperate straits he could not quibble.
The new yorker
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Even despite the oil problem, our armies are in desperate straits.
Red inferno: 1945
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He had got into the habit of seeing himself always in desperate straits.
O Pioneers!
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She had learned the wisdom which the passage through desperate straits can bring.
Clara Hopgood
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There is a family here who are in awfully desperate straits.
Daddy-Long-Legs
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He was in too desperate straits to rebel at that time.
The Ramrodders: A Novel
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I couldn't make the novel work, and we were living in desperate straits.
The Guardian
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They did not lack for purpose and Liverpool were sometimes in desperate straits.
The Irish Times
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They are in desperate straits, but they will enter the Twickenham arena swinging.
The Guardian
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Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear.
The Art of War
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