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He had been faced with desperate circumstances.
The first time I called Samaritans, I was 12 and absolutely desperate.
It's a 24/7 confidential helpline in the UK for anyone who might be feeling desperate or suicidal.
During my teenage years, when I was most desperate, Samaritans became my lifeline.
But I knew that that profound impact of that listening ear and someone being alongside me at that desperate time had the biggest impact, and I felt a great sense of fulfillment that I was able to help people as a Samaritan.
So I had actually gone from that vulnerable caller in the phone box, desperate for help, to being the national lead for the organization and responsible for 22,000 volunteers.
So the situation seemed pretty desperate.
I would go to church services on Wednesday evenings and, desperate for the relief the arts gave me, I would go a few hours early, slip downstairs and into a part of the world where the only thing that mattered was whether or not I could hit the right note in the song I was perfecting that week.
So as a desperate second attempt, I began drawing these lectures as comics.
In response to the desperate state of affairs, the drug use, the poverty, the violence, the soaring rates of HIV, Vancouver declared a public health emergency in 1997.
And I wrapped the oven cleaner around the edge of the mop handle and ... (Laughter) I was desperate to have an opportunity to get some sharks.
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.
They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the moorings simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline.
This certainly applies to those who are desperate enough to navigate choppy and stormy seas in boats.
They were desperate for volunteers because the average age of the volunteer at the hospital gift shop was 75.
I got in a bit of a panic, because these people were coming up to me, desperate, and I was trying to explain to the village elder that I was not a doctor, and I couldn't help these people.
Because I was desperate to shove him in a box marked "Psychopath."
I was desperate to define him by his maddest edges.
It looks like everyone's poor and desperate, but that's not really how it is.
I watched in horror heartbreaking footage of the head nurse, Malak, in the aftermath of the bombing, grabbing premature babies out of their incubators, desperate to get them to safety, before she broke down in tears.
We're seeing an entente cordiale between science and religion that five years ago I would not have believed, as the evangelical community has understood the desperate situation of global warming.
And to be fair, I was desperate for interest and help, and I began to tell him about my strange commentator.
But the thing is, you have to remember, there really are still people within this algorithmically optimized system, people who are kind of increasingly forced to act out these increasingly bizarre combinations of words, like a desperate improvisation artist responding to the combined screams of a million toddlers at once.
This is what happens when all of these different keywords, all these different pieces of attention, this desperate generation of content, all comes together into a single place.
When their meager harvest came in, desperate for cash, they would sell most of it at fire-sale prices, when, if they could just wait six months, they could get 50 percent more.
I'm not really sure how to create new norms for this world, but I do think that in our desperate quest to create happy kids, we may be assuming the wrong moral burden.
This took place in Egypt in January 2011, and as President Hosni Mubarak attempted a desperate move to quash the rising revolution on the streets of Cairo, he sent his personal troops down to Egypt's Internet service providers and had them physically kill the switch on the country's connection to the world overnight.
He was in many ways a father figure to me when I was in desperate need of one.
That's why you see me in a Mexican fighter mask, in the wedding dress, all desperate in my garden.
The grads face pressure from their families too, desperate to make ends meet, so when there are no public sector jobs, these new MDs decamp into private practice, or go abroad to send money home.
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