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All the sort of classic department stores are desperate to break into that area, and are doing it in a much much more imaginative way.

The door of the ramshackle farmhouse opened, and Mrs. Hobbs introduced herself to a family in a desperate situation.

Certainly in this picture Sir Alex Ferguson and his players seem to be desperate to depart the scene of their disappointment.

It was an almost desperate need to alter or to stop the negative cycle of events which seemed to dominate my relationships and my life.

Kevin admitted he took it but said he thought he could put it back before it was missed, he was desperate and no one was there to ask.

She had to made a desperate attempt to leave her husband so she left under the cover of night.

I got a desperate email last week from a woman who had sold all her stocks in panic in March and moved the money into bonds.

"You are desperate, " said the gentleman, taking out his snuff-box, "and I am sorry for you. "

COBBLER unable to make a living by his trade and made desperate by poverty, began to practice medicine in a town in which he was not known.

She says she received many desperate phone calls from people unable to get out of the city because of blockades erected by Kyrgyz gangs.

His new book is out in hardback, but I'm not desperate to read it, so I think I'll save some money and wait for the paperback to come out.

Get into a price war. Companies frequently undertake suicidal contests with rivals in a desperate attempt to seize market share.

However, I have learned a valuable lesson -- in desperate situations, the most feasible option is often the best option.

But, Walker says, she resisted the pressure "to make a book I really wasn't all that desperate to read. "

Expansion into new industries, like the kind Center Group attempted, is a desperate attempt to move up the value chain.

On her way to be forced to marry a millionaire, desperate Rose attempted to jump into the sea, but she was saved by Jack.

But such a rivalry is not unusual between a superpower and a rising competitor desperate to protect its burgeoning interests.

I knew it would be dangerous to leave the lift, but I was desperate. The trap door was locked.

In a desperate attempt to save the world, Mack sacrifices himself to destroy Flurious once and for all.

Each day of my life, I'm filled with all the joy I could find, you know that I am not the desperate type.

He did not look like he was going to win anyone over but by the end of the tournament everyone was desperate for him to stay on.

In the last desperate weeks of her life, Faten knew a death sentence was hanging over her head, and she tried hard to escape it.

One wrong step and I could either make a desperate, flailing grab for the boat or be over my head in water!

The enemy made a desperate attempt to seal off the gap through which we had burst.

I'm desperate to get that photo of me with my teammates holding the Premier League trophy.

The photo before you is of a man in desperate need of help. In the next room are the tools to his salvation.

Totti is expected to be out of action for up to three months, but he insists he's desperate to get started on his recovery.

Not seeing you go away from me, may you go in an easy way, leaving me alone with little bit of the last desperate hope in me.

I'm not as desperate for a change as you are. A change for me would be starting a new hobby or just buying something new.

Experts have already suggested this ancient atrocity may simply have been a desperate last act by a starving people.

He sounded more sincere (and more desperate) than before. He may even have been trying to signal a change of tack.

The dark ocean and the sky together into a ruthless and desperate passengers swallowed.

Back in 2009, in the heart of his child, love him heartache, desperate to rush forward desperate revolt.

They think the company is getting desperate to get people back to work because Christmas is coming and that's our busiest time of year.

The truth was that polar bears are ferocious wild animals and can become desperate for food in the ice-free summer months.

The power of controlling your situation, to be able to stop the war and rest, is something that our soldiers are quietly desperate for.

Already it is declining and their frustration is showing as they hit out as a last desperate attempt to hold on to it.

Never give up : Desperate acts can be lethal to you and others with you. Without the will to live, you won't.

As a result, desperate small traders were buying permits through brokers or trying to smuggle goods through the Great Wall.

Royalties will be donated to the Children's High Level Group, to benefit institutionalised children in desperate need of a voice.

Handy Ted is getting ready to do some work on his place and he is in desperate need of your help.

In a desperate attempt to sign up new depositors the bank had been running television adverts with the slogan "Whoo hoo" .

In a mad dash to leave the doomed installation, Mungo was unable to get to his ship -- it had been commandeered by a desperate Koong.

Yet at the same moment, blind and desperate, he realizes that the only bond linking him to the world is the cool hand of a girl.

Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation of his soul.

But even though I just started this presentation, this is not the first thing that I tried to do, and I was getting sort of desperate.

Those who are eager to leave are not the poor and desperate. On the contrary, most are entrepreneurs and students.

Lang was desperate for more information concerning the matter, but the Sentinels had clammed up about it.

Trying to escape the police and a shadowy group of killers, he is also desperate to find out if his beloved wife is actually still alive.

Deerslayer knew too well the desperate nature of the struggle in which he was engaged, to lose one of the precious moments.

If you force your enemy into a desperate situation, he would fight with all his got.

It was Starr's last, almost desperate attempt to break Hubbell and force him to say something damaging about Hillary or me.

Ginger: A group of rather desperate chickens. You see if it is you, then you just might be the answer to our prayers.

"BP is desperate to get its hands on the field, but it has some serious competition, " said a banker close to one of the three oil majors.

When, over the next few days, Dasey realized they knew the truth, she did not object, but she was desperate not to have the news spread.

As the year wore on, the claim was repeated but seemed more and more desperate, as if it were a spell to ward off recession.

Desperate, she had had almost all her hair cut off, which had made her look even younger than her thirty-something years.

If you do that against a team like the Lakers, who are really ready to play and play desperate, you're going to lose.

Hit you, desperate to seek a doctor down to save me, saying how much money can be allowed as long as I live.

On this day the land has spoken again: "My child, you look at me a bar! " To trees is dismissive: "No, I will not bow. " Tree desperate.

I feel if I stopped cleaning the toilet one day it would be a bad sign, and I'd let myself go more and more till I was desperate.

However, his La Liga stint hasn't been the happiest and he's desperate for an Italian return after losing his place in the side.

A woman's common obsession with being perfect is her desperate attempt to be worthy of love and reduce her emotional pain.

This kind of approach would be a great deal better than the desperate improvisation we witnessed last autumn.

He had never committed a crime before. He was a responsible husband and father. He had been faced with desperate circumstances.

She was desperate to get out of prison, to return to her husband and children.

Desperate to feel him inside me, I lifted one leg from the floor and he took this as his cue to screw me.

As if desperate to leave no scent and to ghost off into the light before another human notices that they're actually free.

"I've been trying to get some more but all the stocks have run out, " he said as he handed them over in fistfuls to desperate customers.

"This made me extremely desperate. Even hearing 'No' for an answer would have been a relief, " Mo recalled.

Facing certain defeat, he made one last desperate act: he led the enemy forces into the maze between the walls.

Steven Gerrard has held his hands up over Liverpool's desperate slump in form, and vowed to improve to turn their season around.

This was an unmanned reconnaissance submarine carrying 15, 000 photographs that they were nearly desperate to see.

After 2 years his mother is still desperate for news of her beloved son.

Movie studios and exhibitors are desperate for a hit, with 2008 attendance down more than 6 percent compared with a year ago.

Like I said, I was ready to go, hungry for adventure, itching for danger, desperate for a story to tell.

And knowing how desperate she was to see him, I decided to play the part and spend the hour with her.

Matos is desperate for a recognition that she does not deserve, ' said Mrs. Perez's children in a press release in March.

As I see it, this is all a desperate attempt to cut and stretch things into a quasi-monetarist framework, for no good reason.

Financial markets are desperate to be bailed out, with the support of Tim Geithner, in his capacity as ambassador for US investment banks.

Arab leaders, just like those of any other country, remain desperate for a secure back channel to Washington.

Yeah, I'm eating cream cheese out of a bowl - because I ran out of pretzels . You won't see that on the set of Desperate Housewifes.

Providence hath a thousand keys to open a thousand sundry doors for the deliverance of His own, when it is even come to a desperate case.

They feel so much lack of love within themselves that they break out with crimes of such a violent manner because they are so desperate.

Community leaders said the delays are causing uncertainty in an area desperate for much-needed regeneration.

Shot a turn, Sam and his wife out of the hospital, Sam's wife, Desperate to leave, leave behind do not know how Sam and small Lucy.

The missing girl's parents made a desperate plea for her to contact them.

His offer of help came at a time when most of us were beginning to feel desperate.

Hey, if this guy is so desperate to meet me, he might be worth talking to. But then I get stiffed.

He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing.

Central banks around the world slashed interest rates in a desperate attempt to get people and businesses spending again.

They imagine the company is getting desperate to get men hand to stay since Christmas is coming or which's we busiest time of season.

Out of the ward, there were several trees, very tall trees. Those desperate days were sharp and clear on her memory.

When children come home from school, that's the moment when they're desperate to make eye contact with you.

It would be a very desperate situation to cause you to corrupt an allied unit in this way. But it would be possible.

Given the desperate mess Washington has made of its own financial system, few countries are eager to take American advice these days.

One lonely, naive man, desperate to show off, and a woman clever enough to make him feel special.

Don't be desperate even in great trouble. The source of life often springs out of the dark place.

Looked at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.

Full of thought for her master into heaven, will be desperate to move off, who knows the master is not busy, slowly walked forward.

And that was before she spent her first yuan on food. But to a girl desperate for freedom, hunger was better than another year in a factory.

Spier's editorial said "desperate situations call for desperate measures" and said it would be "churlish" to push aside "a mass of data" .

In a sort of desperate carelessness , I copied my wife's words and parted with the last relics of Marianne .

The British police, desperate to frame whoever they could, said Annie had a bomb-making factory in her kitchen in Kilburn.

Super-slim Desperate Housewives star Marcia Cross was spotted dining at a restaurant a few years back with her now husband Tom Mahoney.

But as the Great Recession rages on and the plight of the long-term unemployed becomes more desperate, that may be about to change.

When the forbidden zone stops aircraft getting in or out of Heathrow, Schiphol and Charles de Gaulle, things get a bit more desperate.

Less than two seasons later Zambrotta is desperate to return to Italy as his wife Valentina is homesick.

But back in 1977, most had only a few desperate weeks to prepare for the examination that would change their lives.

The footage also shows that kids are often so desperate to be part of a group , they'd rather be punched and kicked than be alone .

The only relief they'd given him was the knowledge that some people on this earth were more desperate than himself.

If you're in a desperate situation, you're not going to be able to make use of those luxury items anyway.

I realized then that ai a critical moment I had shut the door in the face of a desperate need of sympathy and help.

Desensitization therapy in the symbol, the patient did not experience the fear that he felt desperate mirror.

Calls by the rebel council for foreigners to come to the rescue, muted a week ago, sound increasingly desperate.

Where most people saw nothing but a hardened criminal, I saw a lonely and desperate man.

sometimes, in the desperate need of the moment, we must put our shoulder to it like a fireman breaking down a door.

There was Connie Kaplan, a corporate librarian who was desperate to resume her career. "We are not bums, we are hardworking, " she said.

One soldier scoops his severed arm off the sand, staggering on in a desperate attempt to keep up with his squad.

Lindsay was desperate for Mischa to clean herself up and offered a treatment facility and a therapist to help Mischa.

The United States is bogged down with debt and deficits, and is in desperate need of a growth strategy.

You might be having a shag for old times' sake, but your ex may be doing it as a desperate bid to rekindle the relationship.

Claw marks gouged into the cave wall showed the bear was not killed direct by the fall. It made a desperate attempt to climb back out.

helpless and fall in desperate situation. In this case, to be or not to be depends on whether we have.

Desperate to understand the cause of Honey's death, Natasha and her husband Matthew agreed to a postmortem examination.

I don't think she knows you, but she said she needed your help. She sounded really desperate.

Carrizo is regarded as one of South America's best young goalkeepers and Lazio will be desperate to take him on board this month.

By the time Communist troops took over the city, every leaf and blade of grass had been consumed during the final desperate months.

Regulators, desperate to see Countrywide in good hands, seem happy to turn a blind eye.

Really is just that when suddenly wanted to escape from the present life, desperate to clean up their luggage easy to stray.

They made a desperate attempt to save the company.

As a result, she was desperate, and she wanted to give himself a one-off, but she could not bear that she loves people.

Ripley Holden (David Morrissey) is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade.

After all, the desperate need to replace ourselves is etched into the genetic map of every living thing.

As the desperate fighter moved on, he tried not to look down at the armor, greatly stained by the night's activities.

In the mid-1990s successive Italian governments, desperate not to be left out of the euro, pushed through some impressive reforms.

The same elites also failed to arrive at an idea of reform for a system in desperate need of it.

This left the door open for dealers to sell fake or illegally obtained pills to HIV positive people desperate to maintain their health.

In a desperate attempt to keep Moscow out of Napoleon's hands, the defenders set fire to their own capital. For three days Moscow burnt.

Although she is always sweet to me, Lori's heart does not appear to pound to the same desperate rhythm as my own.

To a desperate couple, the risk of a premature baby is a small price to pay for a much longed for one.

But Mr Reid is in a desperate fight for re-election in November in his home state of Nevada, where Latinos make up 15% of the electorate.

there is an unconscious healing process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.

You're never so desperate that you have to obey this sort of demand . Remember : millions for defense , but not a cent for tribute!

Sheldon: Nothing. It was a desperate attempt to introduce an alternate topic of conversation.

Wayne Rooney is readying himself for a pivotal season in his career, as he admits that he is desperate to realise his full potential.

Although the size of the writedown is welcome, euro-zone leaders are desperate for it to be "voluntary" .

In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my room; I find her not.

In August, Kenneth Starr lost his first big case, one that reflected just how desperate he and his staff were to pin something on me.

The reason Iverson's story has reached this alleged desperate point is because Iverson's personal life might have reached its lowest.

An Ass and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot.

Since we are a superpower and a nation on our way out, might as well try it. . . desperate times call for desperate measures.

At that point voters would be desperate and disillusioned enough to turn to the extremist parties in much larger numbers.

He really didn't want to let me go. He was desperate to persuade me, but he was not going to drop the patient, understanding manner.

But he's already on the road into a desperate, his only way out for Superman.

Fear took hold, and I opened my eyes and ears to the world, desperate to find my friends.

Given the desperate sinfulness of the human heart, there really is nothing authentic in anyone to compliment anyway.

They are graying, with withered skin etched on their face & hands, their eyes look tired & desperate, and yet no one notices them.

Dr Marshall said he is desperate for the country to listen to business and create the right courses to fit the jobs that are available.

Again and again he groped over the surface of the rock, feeling it, almost hugging it in the desperate need to find the entrance.

With a little political finessing , it knows it has the one commodity everyone is now desperate for: finance.

The beginning of a new year in no way dispelled the desperate situation of the year past.

His only worry was that she might do something desperate.

Wayne Rooney spent last season desperate to get his hands on his first Premier League trophy.

It has not completed the deals, and as an obviously desperate seller, it has handed the potential buyers of the asset manager all the cards.

In February 2003, has been desperate party want him to own up to the hands of a giant panda specimen about 1 m sold.

Not a few consider them worse than useless, for a bad decision costs precious lives in the Garou's most desperate hour.

Ive been trying to retain my dignity in love. Now Im desperate because Ihave nothing more to lose.

If the things seems to totally desperate that would mark against this argument being a good one.

No longer are desperate keepers feeding Viagra to underperformingmales (that did not work anyway).

There is no doubt that China is no longer desperate for foreign capital.

Some friends and I were desperate to find a place in Rome for just one night before we headed back home after our whirlwind Italian holiday.

It is desperate to distract attention from the fact that it has broken some of its promises.

My first explorations into Zen, which I thought was a desperate attempt to avoid falling into depression again.

Desperate times call for desperate measures! You might not see her again, but you have got to take advantage of the opportunity.

The self centered, the power hungry, the elite desperate to continue their grip, are trying to position for the future.

Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

Satan is more desperate now than ever before in trying to prove that God's law cannot be obeyed.

Will and Frank put their lives on the line in a desperate attempt to stop the 'unstoppable' train.

After not even a year in power, many Lib Dems are weary of building up credibility, and desperate to reassert their identity.

His desperate parents were referred to William Beecher Scoville, a neurosurgeon at Hartford Hospital.

Living off benefits and struggling to pay the mortgage, in March 2011 Beatie said he was "desperate" and filed for bankruptcy.

A strong showing from the player could well increase his bargaining power with Villarreal desperate to tie him down to a new contract.

Beckett's desperate, bleary-eyed parents wanted me to OK a medication to improve the duration and quality of his sleep.

Many employers are treating existing and potential employees as if they're desperate for work.

China might have once been desperate for foreign capital but this is no longer the case.

The orders were to retreat only in a desperate situation and then in an orderly well-planned way.

Other memos suggest the company was desperate to get a new implant on the market and cut corners on testing to do so.

That also happened this time. The difference was the difficulty of getting them into the hands of desperate Haitians.

The sound terrified her. But what was truly horrible were those tiny, desperate fingers pressed under the door.

Tormented by such supernatural appearances and by his anguish over Louis, Prior becomes increasingly desperate.

It has been an excruciating wait for survivors , desperate for news of relatives and friends they have not been able to contact .

Far from helping to repair the public finances, his plan has conveyed a sense of just how desperate the situation is.

That mock examination gave him a heavy blow , and became totally desperate from them on .

Men desperate to keep their jobs make mistakes like trying to clear rubble before the blasting is finished.

Public Safety: Police layoffs are very rare, especially at a time where public safety is threatened by desperate criminals.

The last act of this terrible treachery was played out above Terra, as the Emperor led a desperate assault against Horus' flagship.

The months she had hoped to spend getting to know her new daughter were hijacked by illness, fear and a desperate quest to survive.

But although he was desperate for an exit strategy, he faced constant resistance from his generals.

When we get back (from the internationals), we'll all be desperate to go out on the pitch and prove it is only a blip.

It became common for a desperate woman to turn a trick for $20---the price of a rock of crack.

"They've fleeced the desperate, " says one investor, frustrated that CIT did not file for bankruptcy.

Little over a decade earlier, our neighbors had been plagued with civil wars, coups, dictators, closed economies, and desperate poverty.

The desperate cries of the miller and his wife woke the neighbors.

These lamentable tribes of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, they possess the heedless audacity of mind.

I pick it up, she looks so helpless, so desperate, no doubt, she's dead.

It was flight now, a desperate, hopeless flight that carried him on for some hours.

Yet institutional and sometimes private investors queue up to back them, desperate for exposure to the latest fashion.

Of course, agribusinesses is desperate to deny all this is happening: their bottom line depends on keeping this model on its shaky trotters.

I had no formal training and no idea what I was getting into, but I was desperate for something other than the status quo.

"Relief is needed for the desperate humanitarian situation in Gaza, " he said.

The difficulty in getting help continues to drive many abused women to desperate measures, she said.

I was pretty desperate to get out of the country and the University of Alabama was the first school I looked up.

Sometimes really stupid man, like a girl, on the computer screen can be desperate for half an hour, only for the girl QQ reply.

Kieran Richardson is desperate to play in Sunday's FA Cup third round tie against Aston Villa and prove he is worthy of a place in the team.

But if I'm poor and I'm desperate, like I might commit a crime to feed my family and that can affect others.

Back in the office, Mark tells Elaine that her obvious bid for attention makes her seem desperate.

Back in the 1980s, many rural youths were desperate to become urban residents because an urban hukou brought with it lots of welfare.

Prison Break, much like other serials , ABC's Lost and Desperate Housewives, and its own 24, do not do well in repeat.

It so happened that the snow-covered wilderness, cold and hungry to make immigration into a desperate, some people die.

Soldiers will try to blast its landslide barrier away in a desperate attempt to drain the water.

I was stunned by his words, and shocked that he would share such desperate thoughts with someone he barely knew.

So we feel lonely, like a failed king who desperate to be a civilian, in order not to face the empire of emptiness alone.

The young man was desperate to make a fortune overnight. Unfortunately, he was cheated and lost all his fortune.

People are told that it makes hair grow on your palms, makes "real" sex unsatisfying , and that it's only for the sad and desperate.

Her mother, desperate to keep her aristocratic lifestyle, had arranged Rose's marriage.

I was desperate and willing to try anything, so I decided to give her a call.

Absent access to credit, we must also be prepared to watch low-wage workers slide into desperate straits.

In an interview with the Tribune, a spokeswoman for the National Pork Producers Council called the name change a "desperate" publicity ploy.

By this point I was so desperate that I would have done anything.

This would be a terrible blow to a country desperate to believe that the worst is over.

The Hajj-like spectacle of desperate crowds trying to push their way into the station became international news.

It is not hard to see China's point of view: it is desperate to avoid what it views as the dire fate of Japan after the Plaza accord.

the Obama campaign's efforts in Arizona seemed like a similarly desperate attempt to redraw the map.

We were there for three days and while by the end I was desperate to leave, I was concerned that it seemed he didn't get it.

That did not damage Mr Reid's prospects in Nevada, where he faces a desperate battle in November and 25% of the population is Hispanic.

The moose probably did what she did because she was desperate for food.

A year later, my cruel and desperate for your story.

I haven't that courage, desperate to leave you. As I temporarily to travel.

I had supposed him long ago in France, with the rest of the heads of that desperate party.

Of these, 300 are truly desperate: the husband wants to leave the wife and the wife doesn't want to go, or vice versa.

e. g. Having been absent from school for a month because of illness, Mary is now desperate to catch up with her classmates.

We've all been there - in bed, desperate for sleep but unable to switch off the thoughts running through our heads.

Reem's desperate pleas to stay a child fell on deaf ears as her father forced her to marry a 32-year-old cousin.

Into this deadly hellhole come two police officers desperate to pin the murder of an old woman on one of two suspects.

But Henry, desperate for a male heir, thought the marriage cursed after Anne produced only a daughter and multiple miscarriages.

Desperate parents trying to find the vaccine at clinics and other places are having a difficult time.

amination gave him a heavy blow, and became totally desperate from them on.

But with empty coffers and a pesky rule that budgets must be balanced, state and local leaders are desperate for quick cash.

Fearful and desperate, Mario's parents turned to "outdoor behavioral health" in a last-ditch effort to turn their child around.