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desperate English
Meaning desperate meaning
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Synonyms desperate synonyms
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Topics desperate topics
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Examples desperate examples
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Simple sentences
Tom will likely be desperate to do that.
The young man must have felt very desperate when he resorted to such a terrible act.
Suicide is a desperate act.
The bishop took pity on the desperate immigrants.
Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.
The war situation was desperate.
He's in desperate need of the money.
His desperate attempts at distancing himself from his old left-wing ties have impressed no one so far.
When he failed to find a job, Tom started feeling desperate.
I'm in a desperate situation.
Tom is desperate.
These housewives are desperate.
We're not desperate yet.
Desperate men often do desperate things.
The situation appears desperate.
He was desperate to escape.
She was beginning to get desperate.
I'm desperate.
The jobless became desperate for work - any work that would help them to support their families.
He's starting to feel desperate.
He was desperate to get married.
She was desperate to get married.
We're desperate.
Movie subtitles
Truthfully, I was desperate, so I just took a gamble, but do you also die?
If she knew, would she have been defiant like that although she was so desperate?
However, if you're that desperate, we will discuss about that.
That individual must be getting desperate to resort to these kind of deeds.
Previously I fought for a successful career and for my honor. I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world. It was with such a selfish desire that I annihilated the Yoshioka School.
Desperate singles is next week.
I dropped my pair somewhere in the arena and Roger was in desperate need of a little trim.
She was just so desperate to make it on the tour.
Desperate.
Desperate with hunger and here it was Thanksgiving Day.
He is a desperate character.
I think she's desperate.
These people are desperate, and i'm not sure of my husband when his feelings are aroused.
The desperate Hermaphrodite's meetings took place in Room 23.
I was desperate. I didn't know what to do.
I was desperate.
He was desperate.
I had a terrible feeling last night. I felt he was in desperate trouble.
Desperate men, we go to seek a desperate fortune.
I feel so alone and desperate.
I'm desperate.
I attended Mrs. Landis just to make sure she didn't do anything desperate.
Desperate, rather.
I wouldn't? You're talking to a desperate woman.
And as I was standing by their bed with my bare hands, completely desperate.
That's a mistake! A doctor should never be desperate.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, Nick.
But. However, if you're that desperate, we will discuss about that.
I was desperate to raise my reputation in the world.
I suppose my husband has told you everything Well, it's all your fault that I'm in this desperate situation Why did you come to my house at all if you merely wanted to tell me that you did not love me?
Just after you left, Chieko came desperate.
Mary, I'm. I'm desperate.
Yes. I was desperate, sir.
I was desperate. I'm terribly sorry.
News and current affairs
But the blockade only makes people more desperate.
BUENOS AIRES - Desperate times bring desperate measures.
This raises the spectre of street fighting through Baghdad, desperate use of biological or chemical weapons, an attack to draw in Israel, numerous military and civilian deaths and the further destruction of a ravaged society.
Nonetheless, recent events, together with the PA's dwindling resources, have diminished Abbas's credibility among Palestinians, who increasingly view him as desperate.
They are desperate to enter the global community and rid themselves of a damaged international reputation.
But now, as the realization sinks in that Chinese stock prices will not keep rising indefinitely, the CCP is taking desperate, if clumsy, measures to control the correction.
That may be why Bo had to be toppled, and certainly why dissidents like Chen, as well as his family, have to suffer so much that refuge in a foreign embassy is their final, desperate option.
At the same time, there is a growing demand for energy and a desperate need for a long-term exit from the ongoing economic crisis.
As a result, Syria's various political power centers have embarked on a desperate search for a vision to promote change yet allow the existing order to survive.
This is particularly obvious in the UK, where the government, desperate to see an economic recovery before the 2015 elections, has been pushing the BoE to introduce credit subsidies and, more recently, forward guidance.
Muslims are convinced of the absolute superiority of Islam, which is reflected in the constant invocation and desperate desire to revive past glory, as well as a positive duty to convert followers of other religions.
So would citizens whose livelihoods are being destroyed by governments' desperate attempts to de-leverage.
This partly explains both the hostile stance toward QE adopted in the German financial press and the over-indebted periphery countries' increasingly desperate calls for more action by the ECB.
In these desperate circumstances, North Korea's leaders clung to their strategy of developing nuclear weapons as a last resort to defend the security of their regime.
Amid the current focus on regime change, a transitional government, and negotiating delegations, there is a real danger that the desperate humanitarian situation will be overlooked.
NEW YORK - Many poor, food-importing countries around the world have become desperate in recent months, as global prices of rice, wheat, and maize have doubled.
While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone's survivors remain in desperate need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.
China is keeping its increasingly desperate neighbor on life support by providing most of the non-food aid and energy that North Korea receives from abroad.
Faced with this unexpected challenge, some desperate rulers, above all now in Syria, have been using repressive, even terrorist methods against their open people.
To protect itself, Pakistan's desperate military establishment, fearful of being labelled a proliferator and of ultimately being deprived of its nukes, has chosen to sacrifice Dr. Khan.
The country is in desperate need of leadership with the courage to be candid with voters, by explaining to them clearly and soberly that the UK can no longer solve its problems alone.
Unlike his neighbors, he opened the border to desperate refugees, mostly women, children, and the elderly.
But there are significant obstacles to the widespread use of solar energy and other sources of renewable electricity, including a desperate need for cheaper, more efficient means of energy storage and transmission.