So we were desperate.

And have lots of kids.

If this was a war with two disparate sides,

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed perplexed, yet not to despair

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed we are perplexed, but not in despair

And when we were desperate was the moment we elected Fernando Collor de Mello.

And that, of course, that was enough we felt that that was enough, and we were kind of desperate.

Contemporary commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed.

Indeed, the country is rife with reports of desperate university graduates unable to find productive employment.

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

There was a Nazi tank against every Polish hope... and the people were stunned and helpless.

They parade in fear, their eyes turned upwards, surrendering to the sky which keeps raining terror and death down upon them, and fearing the earth that keeps shaking under them with every step they take, craters opening up where there were once houses, schools, universities, markets and hospitals.

We were desperate, so we rushed out to the Blaskets as soon as we heard there were sharks there, and managed to find some sharks.

It was run by the great and powerful parents, and the people were helpless and hopeless naughty children.

Contemporary commenters despaired of the Roman Empire for several hundred years before it finally collapsed. Could America find its way to a similar extension?

Germany blames France, and vice versa. Even lawyers are getting into the act, trying to identify legal responsibility for the monetary union s design flaws.

Earlier this year, as tens of thousands of Haitians desperately sought to flee the growing repression in their homeland and braved the treacherous journey across the Caribbean Sea in unsafe vessels, States members of CARICOM and Suriname provided temporary refuge to women, men and children.

Indeed, the country is rife with reports of desperate university graduates unable to find productive employment. Newspapers and blogs speak of the ant tribe of recent graduates living in cramped basements in the country s big cities while futilely searching for work.