Sentences with phrase «desperate last»

«What is going on right now is a desperate last - ditch Battle of the Bulge type effort by the forces of darkness, which is relying heavily on the lockstep / groupthink scientific community.»

(We are though eagerly looking forward to Myrrh fisicisfiction denying even this in a desperate last - ditch effort to save itself).

Will Nintendo Switch attain greatness or will it be Nintendo's desperate last spin?

The Banner Saga 2 is a game about loss, desperate last stands, impressive victories against the odds and, above all, the impossible task of trying to save as many lifes as possible in the face of an almost impossible enemy force.

But Sega stumbled and all was lost — way before the subsequent launch of the Dreamcast and the desperate last shot that it represented.

There's even a special where, if Frieza gets hard knock - downed, he can perform a desperate last attempt blast at the opponent just like the end of Goku's and Freiza fight on Namek.

Enemies charge you with a renewed vigour and with extra numbers, turning the final wave of every game into a desperate last stand against the enemy that never failed to have me grinning from ear to ear.

And when this entire agent - as - publisher started to come in with Richard Curtis back ten or more years ago, I warned anyone who would listen away from the idea, and when it started to pick up as agents got more and more desperate this last year and more agents said they would become publishers, I got more public with my warnings to writers.

No wonder, with Bloomberg's departure at hand, the union is making a desperate last - ditch effort to slow down the creation of charter schools.

In her desperate last interview with Rodolphe, Emma is perversely magnificent.

Either way, my gut instinct is that the online gender imbalance (to whatever degree it exists), will probably even out as online dating becomes more socially acceptable; i.e., more women of varying ages, attractiveness, intelligence, success, and other factors will begin to view it as a viable first choice, instead of a desperate last resort.

Stressed yeast cells frantically reshuffle their chromosomes in a desperate last bid to find a combination that survives.

«It's a desperate last attempt to rape and rob Coney Island,» Sheila Smalls, a member of the People's Coalition of Coney Island, told the Brooklyn Paper.

AV was spatchcocked into Labour's manifesto in a desperate last - minute bid to paint some radical hues on to the good ship Gordon Brown.

Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor told PoliticsHome: «Today's statement is a desperate last - ditch attempt by Priti Patel to save her job.

Labour called the move a «desperate last - minute gimmick».

So confident that he's giving away his campaign cash in the final days of the campaign at a time when most candidates are making desperate last - minute appeals.

This is nothing more than a desperate last minute effort to stave off a landslide by McGrath.

I thought 1 - 1 myself, or we scrape a victory with a desperate last min goal, like always seem to do in these type of fixtures.

Then came the desperate last - ditch # 92m bid for Monaco ace Thomas Lemar, as reported by Sky Sports.

It also makes a shorter field after on - side kicks, giving teams making a desperate last second attempt at the end of the game a fighting chance to pull it off.

And desperate last minute buys who miss all of the preseasons.

The Roman authorities were used to the kind of fanaticism displayed in the somewhat desperate last sentences.

The proposal by Tidal Energy Australia for a compromised plan to provide power to the Kimberley appears to be a desperate last roll of the dice.

Not long after the Supreme Court deemed Aereo's service «for all practical purposes a traditional cable system,» the company, in a desperate last bid for survival, pulled an about - face and argued that it should be allowed to operate like one.

Not exact matches

And in an interview first granted to the Mexican press and picked up by The Guardian, Yorke said: «This is is like the last fart, the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.»

Chiu says that often when a startup considers seeking funding from a corporation, they do so at the last minute when they're desperate.

Radiohead and Atoms for Peace frontman Thom Yorke last year described the service as «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse,» while pop megastar Taylor Swift pulled her entire catalog from Spotify in November.

One wonders if Facebook's embarrassing social - engineering experiment last spring, in which users» feeds were edited in an attempt to lift their moods, wasn't a desperate ploy to keep people coming back.

It took years for Radiohead to agree to put its music on Spotify in 2016, after frontman Thom Yorke once called it «the last desperate fart of a dying corpse.»

In what they said was an attempt to combat «speculation,» authorities last week forced over 200 supermarkets to slash prices, creating chaos as desperate Venezuelans leapt at the chance to buy cheaper food.

It was his last, desperate recourse, and the darkest moment he'd known in his eight years building Magellan's.

This last point really seems to get the anti-IEX crowd upset since they are desperate to see IEX not succeed and this type of discount may help to jolt the IEX market share.

It's shortly before sunset at a joint Tesla — SolarCity product launch, held last October at Universal Studios» back lot in Los Angeles, and Musk, wearing a Gray sweater and black jeans, is perched on a platform erected in the center of the manicured suburbia that served as the set for Desperate Housewives.

It's a desperate, last - ditch effort to redeem what is wholly irredeemable.

«When people come here, it tends to be their last resort, they have tried prison, day centres, methadone, doing it themselves... they are very desperate by the time they get to us,» says Mary - Alice.

Surveying such ruin, one would have to have been utterly desperate to be able to rejoice because at last the drought was over.

Sure, there are some extra-loud voices calling for women to conform themselves to narrowly defined roles that have more to do with an idealized conception of pre-feminist America than with actual «biblical womanhood,» but I believe these cries represent the last desperate throes of a dying movement.

Last question, why are so many well off university educated people desperate to believe that Jesus definitely was not illiterate?

His cry of helplessness, his shattered ruin, grew from the fact that on the cross the annihilating wrath of God and the desperate, finite fury of humankind, which up to now had been directed each against the other, were at last united against this solitary victim.

The theological role of the Bible is controversial in many Quaker circles, especially since Quakerism acts as a last desperate handhold for many Christians who feel abused by Biblical literalism and fundamentalism.

He prefers to say, one still regards the temporal as the highest, one looks upon the Eternal as a kind of desperate «last resort.»

Rachel Held Evans recently wrote: «Every night, as I nurse my little boy for the last time before bed, I pray for the mamas nursing their babies in refugee camps and rafts around the world, desperate for a safe place to call home.»

The last thing they'd go for help is a christian and few desperate enough find good Christians who'd taught them the truth but most gets something different entirely.

To her credit she knows, better than most, that the American dream has moved, in these last decades of the 20th century, into a desperate search for the sacred and mystical.

Banning certain things is just a last resort and desperate attempt at control.

We show up to do a bit of good one time and then go home wondering why it didn't last or make a long - term difference in the lives of the poor or the desperate.

Don Wanderhope had bought a cake for Carol's birthday, but he had inadvertently left it in the Catholic church where, on the way to the hospital, he had stopped to say one last desperate prayer for her recovery.

Who were the last desperate soldiers who tried to fight GOD with such an enthusiasm?

A friend recently returned from a meeting of United Methodist social justice executives who were evaluating the significance of the November election and reports that the conclusion seemed to be unanimous: The November election represented the last desperate hurrah of the white, male, racist establishment to perpetuate its control of American society.