Expect him to push on hopelessly.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

But in the borrower s view it is usurious taking advantage of the borrower s desperation.

And European leaders, in their desperation, should not coerce the European Central Bank into helping.

The world economy today, desperate for demand, can t count on either mechanism.

Faced with the loss of the nation s central idea and desperately in search of a new one, millions of Argentines have become interested in their history.

So it is no surprise that central banks have become increasingly desperate in the face of the most severe crisis since the advent of financial globalization.

Hunger and desperate means of producing food had led to an unprecedented loss of biodiversity.

The situation is so desperate in parts of Africa, Asia, even America, that aid groups, just as they did for the tsunami, are uniting as one, acting as one.

Equally important, Israel will be forced to confront the reality of Palestinian despair, which the unique relationship with America has allowed it to obfuscate and evade for too long.

TEL AVIV Israel s desperate plea that the world act to curtail what its intelligence service describes as Iran s gallop toward a nuclear bomb has not gotten the positive response that Israel expected.

In any case, the incremental nature of the talks belies the situation s urgency. 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.

This absence of animating purpose, of faith in the future, has made us hungry for our past. Faced with the loss of the nation s central idea and desperately in search of a new one, millions of Argentines have become interested in their history.

Don t look to emerging markets, either. Desperate to sustain their political and economic momentum, most have taken a wide variety of steps to prevent their economies from feeling the full brunt of the commodity price hikes.

The people of Darfur, Sudan s government, and international development institutions should urgently search for common ground to find a path out of desperate violence through Darfur s economic development, helped and supported by the outside world.

In other words, the private sector s huge savings financed the government s deficit, so that capital flight never occurred in the way it has in Greece, despite the desperate budget situation.

In the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered wise advice to the next US president upon his retirement. Israel and Palestine have become, he said, the hopeless and bloody prism through which American diplomacy often seems to see the world.

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.

In other words, Gazprom (and the Russian government) are less capable of withstanding the loss of the European market than vice versa. Indeed, given the hard bargains that China has been driving during Putin s desperate search for alternative buyers, threatening to cut exports to Europe has proven to be an exceedingly unwise tactic.

The world economy today, desperate for demand, can t count on either mechanism. Interest rates in many countries are already near zero.

So it is no surprise that central banks have become increasingly desperate in the face of the most severe crisis since the advent of financial globalization. The recent announcement of coordinated liquidity injections by the Fed and four other major central banks is, to be blunt, too little too late.