Sentences with phrase «desperate act»

It changes the whole mindset and creates a communication space based more on agreement than desperate acts of getting.

It's a last desperate act, built entirely on sand.

A family member decides to take his or her own life as a final desperate act in order to save the clan from financial troubles.

Suicide is that last desperate act that people do, it's a sign.

Singapore - based Broadcom, whose $ 117 billion bid for the U.S. chip - maker was unsolicited, said Qualcomm's request for an investigation by CFIUS was «a blatant, desperate act by Qualcomm to entrench its incumbent board of directors.»

The concept of egg freezing can be misconstrued in the media or portrayed as desperate act of what baby - hungry women are doing, but after interviewing over 75 women who have electively undergone egg freezing it is remarkable how similar each journey of these women actually take.

Her efforts to gussy up feel like desperate acts of prayer from an antiquated era, as the husband is rarely seen onscreen (though he does find the time to play Dead Island).

I also think that Wynne's decision to call Ford a liar and equate him with Trump smacks of desperation (although like many desperate acts it might work).

«Insubordination is a very desperate act and should be dealt with severely, «he said.

In an 11th hour desperate act, Lorigo and his campaign have defamed Schoeneman by using baseless accusations against her in a pathetic attempt to scare voters.

From Washington to London to the treacherous shores of the Near East, dangerous men and desperate acts fill their path, and at the end of it, the most dangerous thing of all: the rumoured existence of a mysterious «manifest,» lost long ago, which if discovered again... just might change the history of the world as we know it.

«Taking Britain to the edge of Europe and firing the flames of Scottish Nationalism, as Cameron did the morning after the referendum, are desperate acts of survival,» the speech was to have said.

«Those were desperate acts by a politician who was trying to ensure that corruption in Albany could continue unchecked,» the judge said.

His eventual dismissal of her as a romantic prospect — in such an unknowingly cruel way — isn't just what ignites Chubbuck's final desperate act; it's her life in a nutshell.

My Dell Streak 7 had degenerated to an all too frustrating level and before converting it over to paperweight duty, I decided to try one last desperate act and make the attempt to load a custom ROM onto the device.

Is it not a desperate act of self - assertion when Kamlah says: «It is not possible to doubt altogether in the intelligibility of Reality»?

This is desperate act to keep at least one star in our team as sanchez is leaving.

It was a desperate act of faith now.

The toddler had hidden it in a desperate act of rebellion.

This is a desperate act by a desperate campaign.

We wish to Condemn this shameful and desperate act of indiscipline on the part of the New Patriotic Party.

Water is driving the entire region to desperate acts.

Similarly, he opined, «' Clerks» was just a desperate act of somebody who wanted to see the movie «Clerks.

He is called to counsel an environmental activist whose desperation in the face of the global climate crisis leads him to commit a desperate act.

It's not a conscious effort, not some desperate act of retribution.

Mark Strong compellingly reprises his role from the original series as a tormented detective compelled by his partner (Lennie James) to murder a dirty colleague in the opening scenes, a desperate act that tears them apart when an Internal Affairs investigation ensues (led by former Breaking Bad patsy David Costabile).

Writer - director Oliver Stone seeks to illustrate what prompted Snowden's desperate act, one making him a hero to some, but a traitor in the eyes of the law.

The ripple effects of a desperate act are felt through five generations of an Afghani family in this powerful novel.

It is based on the real - life story of Australian female outlaw Jessie Hickman, but making a woman the hero of a Western isn't the only risk Collins takes here: She also chooses to make the narrator of her story a dead baby, born to and killed by Jessie in a desperate act to preserve her own survival.

-- two performance artists who pull off a desperate act to save their failing careers.

In the book's powerful denouement, we return to the Haiti of the dew breaker's past, to his last, desperate act of violence, and to his first encounter with the woman who will offer him a form of redemption — albeit imperfect — that will change him forever.

In Goya's «Black Paintings,» relentless natural, supernatural, and historical forces condemn human beings to desperate acts and melancholic contemplation.

As Nobel laureate Mohammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank for micro-credit in Bangladesh, has pointed out, «Poverty leads to hopelessness, which provokes people to desperate acts.»

While it was seen as a bit of a desperate act at the time, people still began flocking to Insta to try it out, and - surprise!