Female wage labour is still viewed as a solution of last resort for households in desperate straits and their wage rates are normally only half the level of men's, or even less.

Whether it was threats to the environment, inequities in the distribution of wealth, lack of a sane policy or a sustainable policy with respect to the continuing uses of energy, we were in desperate straits.

BUENOS AIRES Desperate times bring desperate measures.

So it is little wonder that it is in these places that most illegal immigration and human trafficking occurs pirates in the Straits of Malacca, fast boats between Albania and Italy, and desperate human cargoes from Africa and Latin America.

So we were desperate.

Desperate Women s Dangerous Moves

I became desperate, despondent.

In 2004, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia had begun coordinated naval patrols of the Straits of Malacca and the Straits of Singapore, which were important for world trade.

Haiti was in dire straits even before the earthquake struck.

Thomas Cowan (Director, Northwest Straits Commission) explained how the derelict fishing gear removal project of the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative addressed the location and removal of such gear.

Sami was desperate for answers.

Sami was desperate for money.

This seems a desperate farewell

Local governments are particularly desperate.

Only democracy in China can bring lasting peace to the Taiwan Straits.

The town is located on straits between two parts of Lake Saimaa.

She was desperate to get married.

In Singapore, the Straits Times Index was down 2.3 when the market closed.

I started to become hopeless and desperate.

This leads to the second challenge the dire financial straits of middle income households.

The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.

But the blockade only makes people more desperate.

Many Africans will fall back into desperate poverty.

And I wrapped the oven cleaner around the end of the mop handle and was desperate, desperate to have an opportunity to get some sharks.

But the world was desperate to learn his identity.

When we feel desperate and option less we compromise.

Desperate to look forward for more efforts like this...

The people because of their desperate need for survival

A desperate wife has the capacity to do dangerous things.

Stationing soldiers will not pacify hungry, impoverished, and desperate people.

Singapore is separated from Indonesia by the Singapore Strait and from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor.

The same three countries, together with Thailand, were also beginning air patrols over the Straits of Malacca.

The situation is dire but not desperate, at least not yet.

So on that basis, I would say that the Disarmament Commission is in dire straits at this point.

Because I was desperate to shove him in a box marked psychopath.

Financial authorities resort to increasingly desperate measures in order to buy time.

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

But that despairing hope, uttered by a desperate Gazan, will not materialize.

Chinese leaders blame Taiwanese leaders for cross straits tensions, and blame the Dalai Lama for all that ails Tibet.

In any event, the regime of individual straits and canals is usually dealt with by means of specific provisions.

The president of the Maldives conducted a mock cabinet meeting underwater recently to highlight the dire straits of these countries.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

In their desperate pursuit of contentment, the French express a profound existential malaise.

People didn t have shoes, socks or proper clothes it was a desperate situation.

Northeast Asia contains the last remnants of the Cold War the divided Korean Peninsula and hostile glares across the Taiwan Straits.