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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

But Iran sees the West in the context of the economic turmoil in Europe, and President Barack Obama s effort to win re election as desperate to avoid a conflict that would send oil prices rocketing.

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.

We now have copies of desperate cables sent by diplomat Archer Blood and his colleagues at the US consulate in Dacca (now Dhaka) pleading with the US government to stop supporting a military regime that was carrying out genocide.

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.

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.

Even the richest country in the world has limited resources. 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.

He went from being alive and passionate at Stage One remember, Life sucks, despairing hostility, I will do whatever it takes to survive to walking into a Boys and Girls Club, folding his arms, sitting down in a chair, and saying, Wow. My life really sucks.

While desperate times may call for desperate measures, massive US government intervention will also make it difficult in the future to make the case that the state should stay out of the workings of the financial system.

In a desperate effort to do something anything to defend their economies, they turned to protectionism, imposing exchange rate dumping duties, and import quotas to offset the loss of competitiveness caused by their own increasingly overvalued currencies.

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.

Obasanjo is also shaking up the oil industry in a double maneuver interpreted as a rap on the knuckles for his Western allies and a last ditch effort to secure a legacy as the one Nigerian leader who tamed corruption in that sector.

And, of course, such weekend dramas are still with us, as EU and eurozone policymakers recently spent a desperate weekend developing a rescue package not only for Greece, but also for other weak eurozone members.

Assad can t hold ground alone and is completely dependent on foreign forces for survival (Russian airstrikes, and Iranian backed Shia militias on the ground). The regime is desperately attempting to recruit prisoners and teachers to fight as regime loyalists try to avoid conscription or flee.

They are well off, well established members of society, not marginal figures whom we might expect to be drawn to desperate acts of violence. Moreover, they come from a scientific background, and science is usually not associated with religious zeal or political fanaticism.

Earlier, generals from a competing service, the FSB, had arrested Cherkesov s deputy for illegal bugging. 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.

Desperate to capture some of the star power of the rock star driven campaign to reduce poor countries debt, the leaders agreed to forgive Third World debt that no one ever expected to be repaid.