Bush s initiative is a last ditch effort to salvage America s position in a region where it is on the defensive on all fronts.

She was desperate to get married.

This seems a desperate farewell

A desperate wife has the capacity to do dangerous things.

This dead end strategy will feature vain attempts to game Germany and desperate economic expedients, such as the essentially coercive capture of domestic savings to finance government debt.

BUENOS AIRES Desperate times bring desperate measures.

The government, desperate to earn foreign exchange, has launched a major campaign to attract international tourists.

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

Desperate to save their lives, families voluntarily smashed their properties and pulped their ancient paintings and calligraphy.

If Ethiopia were to recognize Somaliland as sovereign, other African Union countries would likely follow and so, perhaps, would the United States and EU member states, which increasingly despair of patching Somalia together.

But the wave of political repression merely reflects President Mikhail Saakashvili s desperate effort to cling to power.

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

In a public gesture of despair, Cherkesov admitted the failure of Putin s project to reanimate Russian governance by subordinating it to the security services.

Consumer deleveraging is likely to persist for years to come, leaving the US increasingly desperate for new sources of growth.

These could be political injustice, the denial of human rights, a brutish life entrenched in pervasive poverty or something else yet to be uncovered.

A desperate Voronin has turned for help to the EU s border assistance mission, but an EU initiative would need Russian cooperation.

Perhaps it is even the view of Obama himself, which is why he is playing for time, desperately turning over approval of an attack on Syria to the US Congress.

This will not be easy, but it is worth pursuing, because the alternative a desperate, hostile, nuclear armed, and isolated North Korea should alarm everyone.

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.

Doctors and engineers, after all, are professionals. They are well off, well established members of society, not marginal figures whom we might expect to be drawn to desperate acts of violence.

The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming.

She became a doctor.

She became happy.

She became a nurse.

She became famous.

The world woke up today to see that Egypt had made the headlines again with a photograph of military officers ferociously beating a veiled girl and stripping her off her clothes during the OccupyCabinet sit in dispersal attempt.

I think also the explosion of the organic farming movement, and the renaissance of farmers' markets, are other illustrations of the fact that people are desperate to get away from eating and cooking and cultivating their food on an industrial timetable.

Syrian becomes its ornamentation .

He got the ball.

I became Tom's friend.

And how I regret it.

And then I became angry.

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.

Countries usually call in the IMF only when they have been jilted by international capital markets, and are faced with desperate tightening measures no matter where they turn.

But to say that Turkey has become more democratic is not to say that it has become more liberal.

The well of the House supposedly sacrosanct becomes a stage for opposition MPs to crowd and jostle, waving placards and chanting slogans until the speaker, after several futile attempts to restore order, adjourns in despair.

If it gives tax cuts to the rich, it will have less to spend on repairing levees if it deploys the National Guard and reserves to fight a hopeless war in Iraq, there will be fewer resources at home to cope with a domestic crisis.

Trade between countries would cease to be what it is, namely a desperate expedient to maintain employment at home by forcing sales on foreign markets and restricting purchases.

And he says, But I have become skeptical.

I suddenly became very sad.

Her daughter has become a beautiful woman.

His letters become less significant.

I'm becoming forgetful.

The gang became Fadil's family.

Your daughters have turned into women.