Sentences with phrase «desperate bid»

Flat broke and in a corner, he decides to make one last desperate bid for fame.

According to court documents, TWC unloaded the finished comedy last fall in desperate bid for cash

Manchester United flop backed to shine next season by club legend Man United make desperate bid to keep Real Madrid target

While Clarke is optimistic that the new cryptocurrency will revive Kodak's flagging fortunes, the Financial Times calls the move a «last desperate bid for relevance.»

In a recent desperate bid to stay in the headlines, Nigel Farage poured his heart out to the Daily Mail about splitting from his wife and described himself as «53, separated and skint».

In a perhaps desperate bid to drum up sales, Barnes & Noble is selling its Nook E Ink - based e-book reader for a pound less than 30 quid - a discount of # 50.

Online dating sites see traffic surge as singles turn to the web in desperate bid to find New Year's date

The tragic thing about Clifton and Young's desperate bid for relevance is the consequences.

Arsenal should keep hold of him in one last desperate bid to break back into the top four and then rebuild in the summer.

Since the economy went into free fall, prompting companies around the world to slash employees in a desperate bid to cut costs, the expectations of those who managed to hang onto their jobs has shot through the roof.

The axe has fallen hard in many industrialized nations, as governments from Greece to the U.K. to California slash jobs, wages and benefits in a desperate bid to curb crippling deficits and calm worried lenders.

Meantime, member states that could still call their own shots began imposing (or at least loudly promising) sweeping austerity — a desperate bid to keep the contagion at bay.

Fuller Brush plans to halve its product line in a desperate bid for viability.

Several weeks of jungle adventure followed as the pair made their way north through hazardous terrain in a desperate bid to reach the coast and freedom, often relying upon the hospitality of the rural people they met on their way.

«For instance, several years ago Gould and a colleague proposed a new hypothesis, called «punctuated equilibrium,» in a desperate bid to explain away the fossil gaps.

The world depicted by the author comes to an end in a desperate bid to exploit the lumbering riches of a place called Good Friday Mountain.

I took a lot of medication, but it didn't do much for me, so in a desperate bid I decided to see if a lifestyle shift could help.

Before Andy Warhol was anyone in New York society, he used to mercilessly stalk Truman Capote all over town and leave endless embarrassing notes and letters in his mailbox and under his door in a desperate bid to befriend him.

Louis van Gaal hauled Everton old boy Marouane Fellaini off at half time and threw on Monaco flop Radamel Falcao in a desperate bid to salvage something from a game which was fast slipping from their grasp.

In a desperate bid to resurrect his career, the Spaniard then embarked on a fruitless loan spell to AC Milan in 2014 as his illustrious career began to stagnate.

Their desperate bid for points will be tested by Palermo as the hosts will look to try and pressure Empoli into crumbling apart.

Barnsley struggled badly while rudderless and they have just parachuted in Morais in a desperate bid to beat the drop.

Kenny Dalglish was brought in to calm the storm and steady the ship following Hodgson's drab six - month spell but even the great man himself has found rallying the Liverpool troops almost a mission impossible, so now it would appear the club's owners are willing to pin their hopes on luring a superstar to the club in a desperate bid to resolve Liverpool's ailing fortunes on the pitch.

The window is dominated by the likes of Sunderland or Swansea City scrapping for players in a desperate bid to avoid relegation.

Tottenham are alleged — by the Evening Standard — to have placed seven players, including Peter Crouch, David Bentley, and Wilson Palacios, on the transfer market, in a desperate bid to finance the purchase of Rossi.

Hazard's flick set Willian free in a central position just outside the penalty area and the Brazilian's diagonal pass was clipped neatly home by Bakayoko from six yards, with defender Chris Lowe's desperate bid to block the ball on the goalline in vain.

Lines about «building the most competitive tax system in the world» were spattered out without resonance or timing in a desperate bid to get the whole dreaded thing over and done with.

For instance, they struck a bargain with the Liberal Party (the so - called «Lib - Lab Pact») in a desperate bid to cling to power in 1977, by the terms of which Labour agreed to take on board certain policy proposals favoured by the Liberals, including electoral reform.

It seems perfectly possible that it was, given Cameron's desperate bids to control the TV debates during the election.

In a desperate bid to get at a former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) at all cost, the Federal Government...

In a desperate bid to get at a former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Muhammed Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) at all cost, the Federal Government has confirmed that it was turning a co-accused in his trial Salisu Shuaib into a witness to give evidence against him.

He also did not understand why some aspiring MPs who failed to win in previous constituencies quickly had to run to other constituencies in a desperate bid to get to Parliament.

Many of these young people have found their way to Calais, in a desperate bid to get back into Britain, the place they grew up in and the only home they've ever known.

David Cameron and Boris Johnson have been accused of turning the Tories back into «the nasty party» - in a desperate bid to thwart Labour at this week's local elections.

The APC said, «Even as we concede that Jonathan is on a desperate bid to rehabilitate himself, we wouldn't believe that a former President should be so contemptuous of the intelligence of Nigerians as to give the kind of defence he gave to Sambo Dasuki.

Recall that both local and international observers had widely condemned the action of the army and other security personnel, who, according to reports, openly aided armed thugs of the APC to hijack materials and INEC ad - hoc staff in a desperate bid to rig the election in Southern Ijaw LGA, which led to the cancellation of the exercise in the area.

Harris is the opposite of those fake, positive Twitter accounts most MPs manage in a desperate bid never to cause offence.

When our young people do not see a future in their countries, and cross the Sahara desert on foot and drown in the Mediterranean Sea, in a desperate bid to reach the mirage of a better life in Europe, no amount of beautiful lyrics will change our image,» he bemoaned.

One of the groups calling for Britain to leave the European Union has unveiled an advert referencing the Orlando terrorist attack in a desperate bid to drive up votes for Brexit.

«Mr Cameron should realise that trying to ram through this policy in a desperate bid appear trendy and progressive is not fooling anyone,» Colin Hart, campaign director, told the Telegraph.

Big, important groups with name - recognition have been hollowed out of their principles in the desperate bid for government contracts.

In a desperate bid to return one - party rule to Albany, the Working Families Party has declared all - out war on the centrist Senate Independent Democratic Conference.

It's no good the Tories now pulling back retired coppers and raw recruits in a desperate bid to get the numbers back up.

After the match ended in a 1 - 1 draw, Russian supporters charged the English side, forcing fans to flee and climb fences in a desperate bid to escape.

A disagreement on a psychiatric ward degenerates into farce as Mark and Jeremy begin making increasingly silly claims about each other's behaviour in a desperate bid to get them sectioned.

Eliot Spitzer and former British tabloid editor Piers Morgan, in its desperate bid to restore lost ratings.