Hopeless.

Give up your hopeless attempts to escape.

When the city lights go on, the streetwalkers' desperate rounds begin.

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

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

Suddenly we heard desperate twitterings from around the corner of a corridor.

BUENOS AIRES Desperate times bring desperate measures.

You make him dinner.

Desperate to hold onto power, Pervez Musharraf has discarded Pakistan s constitutional framework and declared a state of emergency.

After all, it was tiny Qatar that brokered Lebanon s domestic settlement, Egypt that mediated the Gaza cease fire, and Turkey that is facilitating the Israeli Syrian talks.

We feel particularly sick of Japan's desperate campaign to force its will on other countries by exerting its economic influence.

At present, the horizon is brightening perceptibly, despite the desperate acts of ruthless gangs.

So would citizens whose livelihoods are being destroyed by governments desperate attempts to de leverage.

Desperate countries often consider such unions to be the best way out of an emergency.

Funds for education, for training and for rehabilitation are declining, so this despairing cycle of incarceration continues.

The EU can continue muddle along with its one size fits all policy of enlargement lite in the region.

CAMBRIDGE The US Federal Reserve s desperate attempts to keep America s economy from sinking are remarkable for at least two reasons.

There is no shortage of dystopian visions about what happens when our machines become self aware, and they decide to rise up and coordinate attacks against us.

In these desperate circumstances, North Korea s leaders clung to their strategy of developing nuclear weapons as a last resort to defend the security of their regime.

The drama continues to unfold on our television screens and social media, despite attempts by a desperate government to muzzle free voices around the world.

The specter of collapsing financial institutions around the world, and desperate government bailouts to try to save them, has created a general sense of alarm.

She taught me that if she'd had another choice, if someone had actually believed in her, she'd have never chosen to be a desperate drug dealer.

Despite the increasingly desperate violence, there is nothing to indicate that Mexico s political class is even prepared to consider the sixth option.

quot President Clinton understands our commitment and our desperate plight, and we have been encouraged by his efforts to achieve a lifting of the arms embargo so unfairly imposed upon our nation in its hour of need.

The hemisphere s other nations have a direct stake in attempting to pre empt a fight that would force them to take sides and might threaten their economic and national security interests.

to appoint to those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.

It is an illegitimate act of cynical desperation by the few who still believe that they can thwart the will of both the Haitian people and the international community.

Such desperate attempts to perpetuate an apartheid system that has already claimed countless lives and trampled on majority rights must not be allowed to succeed.

To protect itself, Pakistan's desperate military establishment, fearful of being labelled a proliferator and of ultimately being deprived of its nukes, has chosen to sacrifice Dr. Khan.

A Euro now costs around 1.60, up from 0.90 in January 2002. Yet the Fed, in its desperation to avoid a US recession, keeps pouring more money into the system, intensifying the inflationary pressures.

Unless such instruments are in force, disparate approaches at the national, subregional and regional levels will give the highly organized illegal traffickers and brokers ample room to carry out their trade with impunity.

Suddenly Hollywood stars and starlets who were otherwise unattached began to sprout little offspring Calista Flockhart, who played TV s ultimate desperate childless single woman, adopted a son and, like a fairy tale, later met and married Harrison Ford.

Due to failures related to family planning, rape, desperate economic circumstances or pregnancy outside of marriage, some women resort to unsafe abortion methods which can aggravate their condition (referred to as complicated abortion).

Desperate bids to increase food production by clearing forests for farms and using chemical fertilizers ironically results in a vicious circle, perpetrating exactly that which is sought to be prevented.

The EU can continue muddle along with its one size fits all policy of enlargement lite in the region. Or it can work harder to turn balancers into joiners.

The Saudis certainly have an interest in supporting this last ditch American attempt for an Israeli Palestinian peace, especially now that, for the first time ever, Israel has refrained from opposing an arms deal between the US and Saudi Arabia.

Caught between their desperate need for finance and markets and their need to respond to their citizens sentiments, they oscillate between condemnation and reassurance of China, struggling to find a coherent path that defends the West s principles without damaging its economic interests.

In the poorest countries, where illiteracy is high, desperate people are subject to government manipulation, and there is a lack of independent control through the media and professional organizations, governments face only weak control by society.

Unfortunately, the system completely collapsed after the war broke out in August 1914. Revenue desperate combatants were forced to turn to inflation finance.

Against this background, the return of US investors to provide short term dollar funding for European bank debt smacks of a desperate hunt for yield that relies on European Central Bank President Mario Draghi s promise to do whatever it takes to save the euro.

No matter what desperate rescue efforts will be undertaken, they cannot hide the fact that the European Union has left the world stage as a serious foreign policy player for at least ten years (if not for much longer).

Whether Kim Jong eun or Kim Kyong hui intend to soldier on in desperate isolation, or to bring in economic change, they lack the revolutionary credentials and grip on power needed to do so.

To protect itself, Pakistan's desperate military establishment, fearful of being labelled a proliferator and of ultimately being deprived of its nukes, has chosen to sacrifice Dr. Khan. Yet his public confession and apology are unlikely to end the matter.

This desperation is perhaps most apparent in Syria. After years of insisting that Syrian President Bashar al Assad was the problem, a growing number of Western policymakers and strategists are now suggesting that he may actually be part of the solution or at least the transition.