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We may see in his face Lear’s desperation: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!
And European leaders, in their desperation, should not coerce the European Central Bank into helping.
In theory, I accept the death penalty and even amputations, though in practice I believe that implementers of Sharia show little understanding for the reality that much crime stems from poverty and desperation.
And without economic security, some young people will resort to illegal activities, or fall prey to extremist groups exploiting their desperation.
It is a small price to prevent a disability that drives countless families into desperation and poverty.
Defending economic aid to Europe after World War II, General George C. Marshall, then US Secretary of State, gave an inspirational speech that argued that US policy is not directed against “any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”
Cameron’s desperation to win votes spurred him to call a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, the result of which forced him to resign.
Arab men and women have shed the sense of humiliation and inferiority that despotism imposed on them – and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.
Yet the Fed, in its desperation to avoid a US recession, keeps pouring more money into the system, intensifying the inflationary pressures.
But, even in the unlikely event that it does, a political union that emerges from desperation to save the common currency will be very different from one built purposefully, as the Treaty of Rome envisioned, based on shared values and goals.
Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods – the result of deforestation higher up.
Waves of immigrants, driven from their homes by poverty and desperation, blend one nation’s struggles into another’s.
Katju attributes the talks’ inevitable resumption to America’s “strategic desperation,” which is so acute that the US would be unlikely even to follow through on Kerry’s pledge to call off the talks if any link to Al Qaeda were found.
USA!” and “Drill, baby, drill” sounded like cries of desperation, as well as of defiance against an enemy who threatens American’s divine right to remain supreme.
In Syria, Russia’s last-ditch defense of its only remaining Middle Eastern satrapy smacks of pathos and desperation.
Such rhetoric is a symptom of desperation.
Qaddafi’s turn to China in his hour of desperation is somewhat surprising.
Originally, it was an act of desperation, because the numbers in the 1981 budget plan did not add up.
Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and death.
The panic breeds a false sense that refugees are a burden and a danger, resulting in expensive and counter-productive measures, like erecting fences and walls and concentrating refugees into camps, which in turn breeds frustration and desperation among the refugees.
But in the borrower’s view it is usurious – taking advantage of the borrower’s desperation.
The Euro’s Hard Rain FallsSWEDEN – The blame game is in fashion as crisis and desperation spread across Europe.
Both Syria’s reluctant alliance with Iran, and its economic desperation, provide openings that Israel and the West should test.
These singular acts of desperation, irrespective of their motives, should be viewed in the wider context of ongoing religious and political problems in Tibet.
This is desperation migration.
In the absence of generous mutual support, there was an aura of last-ditch desperation when, in March 2015, the European Central Bank announced an ambitious program of purchasing government debt.
And yet they found it worthwhile, given the hunger, shortages, and desperation at home.
There is certainly a degree of envy for what others have accomplished and a sense of desperation about how Al Qaeda can capitalize on this change.
Recently, however, Russian politics witnessed a spate of political marriages, some tactical, some "shotgun" unions that smack of desperation.
Even so, the scale and brazenness of the fraud were unprecedented, indicating Obasanjo’s desperation.
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