Sentences with phrase «desperate state»

This was a very desperate state of things.»

We can pursue more local forms of self - government by choice or suffer by default an oscillation between growing anarchy and likely martial imposition of order by an increasingly desperate state.

These days companies routinely use the cudgel of jobs to extract huge offers from desperate states — a process that can resemble a shakedown.

She crashes into his diner in a clearly desperate state.

Second, maybe it's just me, but this whole plan for an RFP process and peer reviews sounds a lot more like a way to push desperate states to embrace the administration's agenda than a way to provide regulatory relief from a law «forcing districts into one - size - fits - all solutions that just don't work» (the Department of Ed's own words in its press release).

Though their situation draws TV crews from around the world, once the novelty fades, other news stories take top billing despite the residents» increasingly desperate state, recalling tragedies like Hurricane Katrina.

The legendary actor, director and armchair conversationalist — actually, he prefers to talk to armless chairs — has been expounding on the desperate state of America.

There is hardly a better example of the desperate state of the drug problem in the UK than the stories of the young recovering addicts at Betel of Britain, a Christian therapeutic community that helps people to find healing from addiction through faith in Jesus.

They are the reason the country is in such a desperate state.

No doubt some will regard this series as an unwitting acknowledgment of the desperate state of theology, insofar as it suggests that models of theological importance may lie unnoticed on the drawing boards of unsung adolescent scholars.

Sure enough, the walls fell down, the foundation crumbled, and I was left alone and trembling in a desperate state of faith, exposed to all the elements.

Here many refugees, from almost all parts of the Union, fled to escape justice or punishment; for although there was law, yet it could not be executed, and it was a desperate state of society.

Every club Mourinho has left ended up in a desperate state.

I know that plenty of Arsenal fans are frustrated with Wenger's methods of business and had we managed to obtain the targets we wanted earlier in the summer by doing business early, then we now wouldn't find ourselves in such a desperate state going into the second fixture of the new season.

Villa were in a desperate state already following the festive period, and it came as no surprise when Paul Lambert was given the boot from the club.

Clearly the club was in a desperate state but messageboards and fans always ask why and express bafflement as to why things are so bad.

Arsenal are currently in a desperate state where they simply have to win all the remaining games in order to keep their faint hopes of winning the title alive and one can be sure that they will be gunning for a victory on Sunday as well.

The Labour Party is in a desperate state.

Politics in Britain is in a desperate state - a demagogic nightmare heading towards the lowest common denominator.

It can be argued that in Greece's case, the desperate state of the economy justified a grand coalition, but voters thought otherwise.

«The desperate state party chairman, re-contesting his position, who, but for the waiver granted all current party executive by APC NEC, ought to have resigned his current position a month before the congress, together with his sponsors, hijacked the entire process of the congress.

Mario Monti, was appointed Prime Minister by the President of the Republic in November 2011, with the public finances in a desperate state, the country on the verge of bankruptcy.

At that same time Kelly Myers was campaigning for town supervisor, found the people in southern Saugerties in a desperate state over this issue and reported that Helsmoortel had held an unannounced morning meeting with the Town Board just before the arrival of Hurricane Irene and his departure for vacation.

«From all accounts Binyam Mohamed is in a desperate state and we're asking Mr Miliband to use his influence with the American authorities to seek Binyam's immediate transfer to a less harsh environment,» she said.

«When you see people are leaving New York more than they're coming in, that shows a desperate state of affairs,» DeFrancisco said in an interview.

«Dan Donovan's endless lies only reflect the desperate state of his campaign and are a sorry attempt to distract voters from his anti-Trump voting record in Congress,» Joe Shikhman, a spokesman for Grimm, told the Advance.

At a time when thousands and thousands of businesses are in a desperate state, why is it that the Government will not allow the unelected Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to be answerable to elected Members in this House?

International Development Secretary Priti Patel also restated the case for spending 0.7 % of GDP on overseas aid, arguing that it shows that when the world is in such a poor and terrible and desperate state, we don't turn our back on the world's poorest.».

The latest poll from Ispos - MORI is a devastating blow to Labour which underlines the desperate state in which the New Labour years (as well as the failure of Ed Miliband to put them behind us) have left the Scottish Labour party.

In one sense, these desperate states are on to something.

The Mexican government is aware of the desperate state of air pollution in the city and might require these devices, much as environmental authorities require catalytic converters in industrialised nations.»

This latest chapter in Hideo Kojima's legendary tactical espionage actin series marks the return of several characters from previous Metal Gear Solid games including Revolver Ocelot, Meryl Silverburgh, Naomi Hunter and Raiden, and features an unforgettable story that depicts the desperate state of the future as seen through the eyes of an older Solid Snake.

But, with age, his legendary genius slipped away, and he tragically deteriorated into a desperate state of insanity.

For example, not much attention is given to the desperate state of the Mexican education system that has helped prompt the emigration across our borders.

And Mitsubi - shi's desperate state could make for appealing deals on those good products.

Chance was a pup when he was found in a desperate state on the streets, he was little more than skin and bone with a broken leg front leg and deformity on his other front leg.

This latest chapter in Hideo Kojima's legendary tactical espionage actin series marks the return of several characters from previous Metal Gear Solid games including Revolver Ocelot, Meryl Silverburgh, Naomi Hunter and Raiden, and features an unforgettable story that depicts the desperate state of the future as seen through the eyes of an older Solid Snake.

Given the desperate state of today's world — more violent and filled with hatred, pain and suffering than any time in history — there is simply no place for this stuff.

When Christine married Mark and moved to the Rama reservation, the Chippewa people were in a desperate state.