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Geoff has played in the Premier League - and proved himself. He was one of West Brom's key players at the tail-end of last season. They were in really dire straits with just a few months to go and it was Geoff and the other experienced players at the club that pulled them through that situation and kept them alive.

Kenny Cunningham

I'm from Minneapolis, so I was well aware of the company and its dire financial straits. I stayed on top of this and I was the only hotel to get paid, and the payments were made and the checks cleared.

John Cousins

We have been taking an active and pragmatic way to promote mutual tourism exchanges across the Taiwan Straits, and have made full preparations for the mainland citizens to visit Taiwan.

Dai Xiaofeng

Both sides are trying to make this kind of cross-Straits job fair a regular event.

Steve Tsai

If we tag a shark out here and it shows up in the Florida Straits, that's pretty cool.

Jack Morris

Compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Straits understand what Mr. Lee represents and are fully aware of the serious damage he has inflicted on the cross-strait relations.

Li Weiyi

I think building the Western Shore Economic Zone is just a start and the messages between the lines are clear that there will be an economic zone across the Straits to boost China's further development.

Lu Zhangong

I want to meet China's leaders and start a dialogue with them on the most important issues in cross-Straits relations ... peace, and economic and cultural exchanges.

Lien Chan

While we need to work to maintain the health of that sector of the business, it's not in dire straits. It's definitely challenged by the conditions it's facing, but it's had two years of increase, which speaks to the quality of the experience and demand.

Frank Haas

Until and unless the US-Allied stakes in the strait's threatened closure can be reduced, Iran will literally think and act as if it has us over a barrel.

Henry Sokolski

The trend that the cross-Straits relations develop toward the direction of peace and stability has been enhanced.

Li Weiyi

We're at the point in time where if the system's not broken, we're in dire straits.

Jerry Cantrell

Congolese friends have often said to me that we wouldn't be in such dire straits if we weren't so rich.

Adam Hochschild

Despite all that, Lula's government has worked well as a model and revived confidence in a country that was in dire straits three years ago.

Claudio Loser

Many of these folks are in very difficult straits. There are several investments where the investor has used their entire life savings and incurred enormous hardship as a result. It's truly heartbreaking.

Bradley Skolnik

In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Titus Livius

Were a very clear manifestation of 41 years of persecution, 41 years of having loved ones perishing in the straits of Florida, 41 years of violations of human rights and years and years of separation of family members.

Alex Penelas

It's far from over and people are still in dire straits in a lot of the Gulf Coast communities. It may have dropped from our consciousness somewhat, but from talking to people in New Iberia, they are still desperate. Some still don't have running water.

Gary Ray

With so much focus on New Orleans, the important thing to remember is the dire straits in Mississippi, ... We wanted to show how much help we need and how people can help.

Sela Ward

The best you can say is that the German economy remains in dire straits and under duress and as far as what it means for policy... it's a beacon call to the ECB to cut rates.

Joe Brown and David Brown

CREDITOR, n. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

Ambrose Bierce

Cheating. If that's what you need to get votes, that just tells me they're in desperate straits.

Sen. Nancy Argenziano

I was in dire straits financially, emotionally I was a wreck, and spiritually I was bankrupt. And today I'm happy to be who I am. It's good. Life is good.

Gary Chamberlain

I certainly don't think we got the coverage that we need or the attention or the realization that Mississippi is in dire straits and in the condition it is.

Sela Ward

This is a gross and disturbing violation of the commitment to keep water healthy in the straits and Puget Sound.

Jay Inslee

We're in real dire straits in the marketplace right now.

Scott Mitchell

The most gratifying thing is most people are so appreciative of finding a temporary place for their dire straits, ... It was extremely rough.

Mark O'neal

We are putting forth our best efforts to realize peace and stability across the Straits but we including myself are well prepared to go to the front line if our goodwill efforts fail.

Lu Zhangong

Despite weeks and weeks of evidence -- even before Hurricane Katrina -- that these families were going to face record energy bills, your Administration has made no recommendations to deal with their financial straits.

Doug Wilder

We're seriously behind the eight ball. We're in desperate straits in terms of bed capacity.

Scott Seamons

By breaking his own promises, Chen is attempting to stir up the secessionist sentiments in Taiwan and create confrontations between different groups of people in the island, as well as to provoke the mainland and strain the cross-Straits relations.

Xu Bodong

A lot of rural property owners are finding a lot of offers right now. Agriculture is in dire straits right now, particularly in southern Florida.

Al Reynolds

What you're finding in the automotive business is the products you design today affect your profitability three to four years down the road. What we are seeing today is some pretty good changes at General Motors, but nothing like that at Ford, and I think Ford is really going to be in dire straits in five to 10 years from now.

Brett Hoselton

Somebody was going to do it. Mitsubishi is in dire straits. This is as good an idea as any.

Art Spinella

Sturgeon have been in dire straits for some time and it has been clear that something drastic had to be done to stop the rampant trade in illegal caviar.

Dr Susan Lieberman

You're in a situation where you're stuck, because no government wants to go out there and say, 'we're in dire fiscal straits, we've got to increase taxes'.

David Watt

It shows the dire straits the prosecution's case is in.

Todd Peterson

As a species the cheetah is still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.

Peter Zahler

There's no reason for our skilled workers to come back because it's like taking an instant pay cut when you get off the plane. The government is swimming in money and it's time to encourage workers back to an economy that's in dire straits on skills.

Jenny Macklin

If the plans stay as is, we're going to have to find some other place to go. Basically our club will be in severe financial straits. And I know it will be hard for the canoe club as well.

Klaus Madinger

Find themselves in dire financial straits.

Ed Whitfield

This is not something we wanted to do, ... The mayor was not happy about this. We hung on for as long as we could. Try to analyze this: You have a government operating without any revenue coming in. We're in dire straits.

Zeno