"Desperate measures" refers to extreme or drastic actions taken when all other options or solutions have been exhausted. It implies that the situation is so challenging or urgent that one is willing to consider unconventional or risky actions in order to find a solution.
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The mix wasn't working, the front office knew it, and everyone decided that desperate times called
for desperate measures.
Setting aside the natural psychological let down once they «won» a home, it is important to understand why some homebuyers
take desperate measures in the first place.
During some desperate times, I took
desperate measures by writing these aptly named desperation writing prompts.
There is a glaring lack of game management and intelligence in this team, and a desperate rush to
desperate measures when the game is still in the balance.
She's not exactly well paid — just getting her fridge repaired is a stretch — so when her teenage son's injured, finding the cash for his operation
demands desperate measures.
They end up on a remote island of no sustainable resources and are driven to
desperate measures when they take their ships out in hopes of finding a water rescue.
Cybersecurity experts have voiced the opinion that the increased tension and hype surrounding cryptocurrency could cause a virtual arms race as hackers are resulting in
more desperate measures to claim their share of cryptocurrency.
Instead of being reduced to
such desperate measures as almost - hopeless appeals of its failed «extraordinary challenges» of past NAFTA panel rulings, the US and its lumber coalition are back in the driver's seat.
«This story is tragic and, as awful as this story is, without access to animal welfare, these are the kinds
of desperate measures people resort to when they have nowhere to turn for help.
For the Dargons, the wounds of that initial disappearance run deep, driving a wedge between husband and wife that ultimately leads to a dramatic unraveling in the film's second half — one that brings a fascinating degree of complexity to Nixon's role, as she
tries desperate measures to break through to her long - lost little girl.
Despite a blossoming affair with a sympathetic neighbor with struggles of his own, Kyra can't accept that her once - tidy life has fallen apart, and she resorts to
increasingly desperate measures to hold onto what little she has left.
He, however, urged them not to be complacent as the insurgents would
employ desperate measures to survive the onslaught by the military.
A billiard - savvy street kid resorts to
desperate measures after finding himself caught between a pair of veteran hustlers and a corrupt vice cop in this urban thriller directed by Keoni Waxman and starring Freddie Prinze Jr..
First Reference Talks Desperate times do not
justify desperate measures In Trites v. Renin Corp, 2013 ONSC 2715, the court considered «the novel and perplexing legal issue» of whether an employer that is experiencing significant financial difficulties can unilaterally impose a temporary layoff on an employee in the absence of an express or implied term in the contract of employment to support the employer's action.
Those who fell by the wayside, whether it was their own fault or not, had to pick themselves up or, as a
last desperate measure, appeal to the workhouse guardians for relief.
Lallana was replaced by Daniel Sturridge but he found it tough going as well and was booked for diving in the Swansea penalty area by referee Michael Oliver as Liverpool resorted to
desperate measures against measured opponents for whom Sigurdsson shone.
Nonetheless, the doctor promises to do what he can and Saul vows to take
whatever desperate measures he can to get this adolescent boy the proper Jewish burial he deserves in lieu of the mass cremation other gas chamber victims receive.
Schrader is back on familiar ground with First Reformed, the meditative story of an upstate New York pastor (a subtle Ethan Hawke) racked by guilt at his own shortcomings and soon to
embrace desperate measures.
The reality is apparent in the sometimes questionably legal tactics, outright thuggery and
other desperate measures the unions have taken since the parents became activists.
Not
exactly desperate measures but when you consider the PlayBook was touted as an iPad killer, not exactly the kind of form that its makers would have hoped for.
In order to make it back home, Jesse has to find a way to break out, even if that means employing a
few desperate measures...
«Those who are short of food, those who are short of water, those who can't move to countries where it looks as if everything is marvellous are going to be people who are going to
adopt desperate measures to try and make their point.»
The thought of more identity documents from referring entities, more large cash transaction requirements and increased documentation of reasonable measures bubbled away in my veins and I was forced to
consider desperate measures.
People with the rare inherited disease also have frequent nosebleeds, as many as seven a day, that can become so severe that patients require skin grafts in their noses or even
more desperate measures to lead normal lives.
It is
desperate measure by RIM to push up their playbook sales.The whole idea of porting android apps to bb sounds crazy.Its just like porting iphone app in android.