She's desperately poor.

It remains a daunting journey, through areas little changed to this day, inaccessible, and desperately poor.

But it gave war torn and desperately poor Europeans a positive vision of a new future, something that Greece and Cyprus, not to mention Middle Eastern and North African countries, desperately need.

What they won t see, of course, are the desperately low living standards of China s teeming millions, especially the rural poor.

This group, not the desperately poor and helpless, forms the great mobilizing force of violent protest, and ultimately of major change.

Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to drought, pests, and soil depletion.

Politicians around the world trade favors for cash needed to win elections, and they often use that cash to buy the votes of desperately poor people.

High prices and future discoveries will generate money flows so vast that, if properly managed, they could transform desperately poor parts of Africa into regions of prosperity.

It is a small, poor country that desperately needs stability and economic development. Its model should not be Palestine and permanent battle, but Switzerland and permanent prosperity.

Sami desperately phoned police.

It is unconscionable that we should have to continue to live in a world that consists of a permanent coalition of unequals the fabulously rich and the desperately poor.

One cost of the conflict has been the retreat of local governance and arrested development in a desperately poor country where over 80 of the population lives in rural districts.

Genuinely concerned about raising the incomes of his desperately poor people, he recognized that Bolivia needs foreigners expertise to achieve growth, and that this entails paying fairly for their services.

I've talked about what's desperately necessary.

I was desperately hungry and tired.

What is desperately needed is better policymaking.

But they desperately need a new narrative.

Indeed, Mubarak s strategic vision is desperately narrow.

But the prospects of success are desperately dim.

The world economy desperately awaits its new Keynes.

Europe wishes desperately that it had America s problems.

Pakistan desperately needs the EU s vaunted expertise in police training.

Most ordinary Ukrainians desperately want to be part of Europe.

Zimbabwe s military and political elite has appropriated the diamond field s immense wealth for itself, with no benefits for the millions of desperately poor Zimbabweans who need the kind of services that the country has the resources to provide.

This is why he desperately needed his victory at the UN.

This is why Tudor desperately needs a patina of democratic respectability.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas desperately wants to construct a functioning state.

Today s research budgets are tiny, and that desperately needs to change.

Some of these democracies have joined NATO, and others desperately want to.

Top military and diplomatic experts desperately warned Bush not to invade Iraq.

At the moment, Europe s banks desperately need to shore up their balance sheets.

Threatened aid cutoffs in Kenya, Chad, and elsewhere would make desperately bad situations worse.

One strategy assumes that Europe desperately needs the policies of this deeper union now.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked who can know it?

FRANKFURT Europe s politicians nowadays are desperately looking for someone to blame for the euro crisis.

It desperately needs allies whose populations accept what it is and respect what it does.

The bombs need to stop and aid desperately needs to be allowed into the city.

Poor people live in poor neighborhoods with poor schools.

It leaves their children paralyzed, and it drags their families deeper into poverty, because they're desperately searching and they're desperately spending the little bit of savings that they have, trying in vain to find a cure for their children.

Poor Palestine. Poor Israel.

After ignoring Latin America for years, President George W. Bush is desperately trying to improve hemispheric relations.

The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

At the same time, Egypt and Saudi Arabia want desperately to avoid the downfall of Assad s regime.

All of a sudden, the paramedics noticed something unusual the man's dog was desperately following the ambulance.

What we desperately need, beyond, or along with, better rules and reasonably smart incentives, is we need virtue.