Desperate
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Whether Kim Jong-eun or Kim Kyong-hui intend to soldier on in
desperate
isolation, or to bring in economic change, they lack the revolutionary credentials and grip on power needed to do so.
In fact, the “no” campaign’s victory might have been even more resounding if the Westminster establishment’s desperate, last-minute offer to grant Scotland more powers on taxation, spending, and welfare had been included as an option in the ballot.
But with Britain in such a
desperate
negotiating position, even an administration headed by Hillary Clinton would have driven a hard bargain on behalf of American industry.
Apart from a few small
desperate
rebellions, there was no way for Jews to resist Nazi power.
Recently, Venezuela’s despotic socialist government has been so
desperate
to avoid another default (which would be the country’s 11th since independence) that it mortgaged its industrial crown jewels, including the United States-based refiner Citgo, to the Russians and the Chinese.
And this brings us back to the bizarre spectacle of this economically
desperate
country helping to fund Trump’s inauguration festivities.
Many eventually try to migrate to Europe in
desperate
search of a livelihood.
Of course, there will be concerns over sovereignty and consent, but there are millions of
desperate
people within just a couple of hours of those borders.
Chaotic excavation and exhumation--often by family members
desperate
to learn the fate of loved ones--and unprofessional treatment of the evidence aggravates the challenges of uncovering the truth.
Despite the increasingly
desperate
violence, there is nothing to indicate that Mexico’s political class is even prepared to consider the sixth option.
I was so
desperate
that I asked Michael Dell, whom I met at the World Economic Forum in Davos, for a replacement.
The African Union and the EU must address the challenges raised by migration together, in particular the need to crack down on the criminal gangs that ruthlessly exploit
desperate
and vulnerable people.
But the Americans concluded that international sanctions had brought North Korea to its knees, leaving Kim
desperate
to conclude a deal on US terms.
Amid a re-run of last year’s lurid schoolyard taunts – “little rocket man” and “mentally deranged dotard” – Moon will be
desperate
to rescue a semblance of improvement in relations with the North.
States that tighten their borders encourage
desperate
people, exploited by cynical smugglers and traffickers, to take greater risks to cross them.
Nor can the prospect be ruled out that the regime would seek to depart in a blaze of glory with a final
desperate
act.
Underdevelopment in many countries of the South, which are faring poorly in their struggle to remain viable in a globalizing world, creates conditions of
desperate
poverty, ecological collapse and rootless, unemployed populations beyond the control of atrophying state systems.
Domestic liberals and supporters in the West were bamboozled into a “democratic Islamist” narrative that they were
desperate
to believe.
The full details are expected to be announced in January, but it is already clear that the kingdom – the world’s nineteenth-largest economy – is in
desperate
need of far-reaching reform.
But the recent US-Russian agreement regarding the removal and destruction of Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpiles offers hope that the two sides are beginning to set a new agenda, based on international law and a shared desire to prevent further deterioration of the
desperate
situation in the Middle East.
But for the world's remaining two billion people, life remains
desperate.
Republican leaders were
desperate
to get Kavanaugh confirmed before the midterms, lest their voters stay home out of disappointment and even anger if he wasn’t confirmed – in which case their worst nightmare, a Democratic takeover of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives, could come true.
The second act of the Greek tragedy will cast
desperate
Greeks against angry and disenchanted Europeans elsewhere.
Although Israel formally withdrew from Gaza, its complete control over the borders, infrastructure, transport, and taxation, together with its regular military incursions in response to shelling from Gaza and its killings and capture of senior Hamas officials, left Palestinians there
desperate.
Instead, conflict broke out between Hamas and Fatah, leading to Fatah’s collapse and
desperate
flight from Gaza.
This partly explains both the hostile stance toward QE adopted in the German financial press and the over-indebted periphery countries’ increasingly
desperate
calls for more action by the ECB.
Against this background, the return of US investors to provide short-term dollar funding for European bank debt smacks of a
desperate
hunt for yield that relies on European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s promise to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro.
Sapre’s answer might not have been the brightest, but if the judges had any idea of how
desperate
Indians are for sporting success, they would have understood that she was not expressing such an absurd priority.
We know from past experience that no act is too depraved for a
desperate
regime.
A
desperate
Voronin has turned for help to the EU’s “border assistance mission,” but an EU initiative would need Russian cooperation.
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