Sentences with phrase «desperate lengths»

With both sides going through increasingly desperate lengths to get hold of the boy, he begins to wonder whether the price of victory is really worth the paycheck.

I've seen this blacker - than - night play about the woefully desperate lengths a cocaine dealer - addict will go to pay off a debt.

Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego.

With both sides going to increasingly desperate lengths to get hold of the boy, Danner wonders whether the price of victory is worth the paycheck.

The Ashanti Youth for Development is completely astounded by how functionaries of this government have gone to great and desperate lengths to ensure that Exton Cubic is denied the right to access its legally and rightfully acquired bauxite concession in the Tano - Offin Forest Reserve.

László Nemes) Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, this powerful and gripping Holocaust drama follows a concentration - camp inmate who goes to desperate lengths to secure a traditional Jewish burial for a young boy.

John Pugh, of the Liberal Democrats, said: «This lays bare the desperate lengths the Conservative party are willing to go to deliver grammar schools through the cloak of expansion.

Not comical, however, is one union's action, which shows the desperate lengths they will go to keep their bottom line healthy.