Sentences with phrase «desperate position»

When you attended the game versus Leeds United in the mid sixties with a four and half thousand crowd you never thought about boycotting then, even though we were in a more desperate position than we are today.

But my Party now finds itself in a truly desperate position.

However, shadow pensions secretary Philip Hammond warned that those who lost their pensions were «still in exactly the same desperate position» and demanded the government «show leadership in resolving this crisis».

Throughout the episode, Pablo's enemies — and some of his most trusted underlings — have thwarted his every attempt to force his increasingly desperate position toward some sort of bloody, dramatic showdown.

«What really matters is that companies that don't continue to experiment — companies that don't embrace failure — they eventually get in a desperate position, where the only thing they can do is make a «Hail Mary» bet at the very end.»

«It's a really great opportunity for Venezuelans in a desperate position,» said Andrea O'Sullivan, a cryptocurrency expert at George Mason University.

Pay rises have to be earned and Arsenal are no longer in a desperate position where they have to bow down to player power.

Dumb luck also includes not finding an adequate fill in for Sekera then being in a desperate position two months into the season.

I've seen people take defensive and desperate positions and not fare as badly as I would have expected, mainly because either a senior person or a program officer advocated for them.

Thus, when the economy began to improve and when ballot measures brought new revenue to school districts, California found itself in a desperate position: Once again, the schools were looking to hire tens of thousands of teachers, but the challenge of finding good candidates had become more difficult than ever.

The behavior problem that has placed us in a desperate position is that one of the cats eats our furniture.

He went on to say: «What really matters is, companies that don't continue to experiment, companies that don't embrace failure, they eventually get in a desperate position where the only thing they can do is a Hail Mary bet at the very end of their corporate existence.»

That would mean that Atari isn't quite in the desperate position that Kodak has been over the last year, but it's still plowing into the land of corporate backed initial coin offerings.

While the move may come as no surprise — the Alpha felt more like a product demo that crashed against the wave of Samsung's traditional «bigger is better» mantra — it points to the desperate position the company is in as its dominance is being challenged by Apple in the high - end and inexpensive Chinese OEMs like Xiaomi and Lenovo in the low.

«These people will be in the desperate position of trying to save their home and they'll look for someone to trust.