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.

Each campaign is now desperately trying to gauge the impact of the financial crisis on these battleground states.

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.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy ended up trying desperately to appeal to those very sentiments in his last ditch effort to avert his political demise.

She's desperately poor.

Sami desperately phoned police.

Given its support for the brutal national government in Khartoum, China is now desperately trying to repair relations with South Sudan, so that it can continue to exploit the new country s oil reserves.

We started moving around the corridors of the U.N. system, governments and NGOs, trying desperately to find somebody to come forward and have a go at it, see if we could make it possible.

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.

In time, however, as the impact of Mandela s reputation faded, South Africa became just another country desperately trying to cope with immense social and economic deprivation and anxious for the foreign investment crucial to economic growth.

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.

Indeed, a practical definition of a financial crisis is an event that forces policy officials to spend a long weekend trying desperately to announce a new bailout package in order to avoid national and global panic before the markets open on Monday.

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.

They go on to say that the kids finally look like true performers rather than Disney Channel mainstays desperately trying to remain relevant, and they deserve the lucrative careers that lie ahead and gave the film a rating of four out of five stars.

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

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

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.

For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French speaking Walloons (32 ) and Dutch speaking Flemish (58 ). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is desperately trying to stop his subjects from breaking up the state.

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?

A concomitant of such Kurzschluss between mainstream leaders and voters has always been the politics of accentuated ethnic identity, ultra nationalism, and outright bigotry. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy ended up trying desperately to appeal to those very sentiments in his last ditch effort to avert his political demise.

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.

Sami kept trying.

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

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.

Everybody was trying it.

Mom, I'm really trying.

I'm trying to sleep.