From that moment on, plant operators were in a desperate struggle to prevent core melting.
Boys are often sold to families desperate for an heir; girls can be reared as future brides for rural men.
When he was filmed in 1986 for Jonathan Miller's extraordinary documentary "Prisoner of Consciousness," Clive showed a desperate aloneness, fear, and bewilderment.
Then she ordered everyone to keep quiet and demanded all the money in the bank, modifying this to & 85, 000 after a delay which led her to shout: "Hurry up, I'm desperate!"
As a songwriter, Bieber specializes in two subjects: tender ballads about his parents' divorce and the kind of desperate puppy love to which anyone who has ever been a teenager can relate.
The town has been desperate to protect its prized tree.
You can get the word out without being obnoxious or sounding desperate.
In short, the King's speech stands in for the real-life speech that we're all desperate to applaud.
Their desperate journey over the floes must surely rank as one of the most miserable and arduous polar slogs ever attempted.
When policemen, school janitors and cleaners are dismissed and bankrupt peddlers or unemployed artisans have nothing more to sell or pawn, they grif their teeth and with tears in their eyes take this last desperate step, knowing it to be a dead end.
And his old foes in the Conservative Party are desperate to wreck it.
Studying the ecology of carnivores in the rainforest, he thinks like a desperate civet running out of territory.
In countries with more enlightened education systems, this would be unremarkable. In Britain, it is an amazing achievement by a bunch of desperate and determined people after years of struggle.
That was more of desperate hysteria than crazy thinking.
Experts have already suggested this ancient atrocity may simply have been a desperate last act by a starving people.
The waters of the Yangtse, struggling between towering wall-sided cliffs, rushes down in whirlpools, rapids or eddies and pounds on the banks in desperate rage, throwing up surging white foam and creating a sight of spectacular grandeur.
Imaginary enemies are a desperate ruse to provide the union with coherence.
GM, which has its own problems in Europe, is desperate for Fiat Auto to sort itself out before it can be forced to take over.
I'm no longer young, and I know that it's a desperate endeavor to clothe a man in words.
Desperate She became so desperate that we feared for her sanity.
The cougar trope started out as a joke about desperate older women. Now it’s gone mainstream, even in Hollywood, home to the 50-something producer with a starlet on his arm.
Let's go with the flow. It contains how desperate and unwilling I am, if you understand.
During those first, desperate weeks of the war, with the United Nations troops pinned into a corner of the peninsula, very little of what we did was routine.
You know, now I am myself in the West and desperate" "Hone Depot" and "Walgreen" have nothing more to offer me.
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