Sentences with phrase «desperation on»

This mismatch in hopes or expectations can trigger feelings of frustration, resentment, and desperation on both sides of the equation (and the equator, in some cases).

Applying for jobs in this way can end up with the recruiter noting your desperation on your application file.

As a serious job seeker, you need to learn to identify the scent of desperation on yourself, your resume, and your actions.

I don't see that it has any relevance at all — it just smacks of desperation on your part.

On countless occasions, those who so often try to disrupt comment threads here with a melange of spiteful ad - hom attacks and half - baked pseudo-science (one of them even sent me a vile email offering gratuitous and profoundly offensive medical advice, though he was not a medic, a sure sign of extreme desperation on his part) found themselves attacking official climate science.

This was desperation on the cusp of madness and will go down in history as one of the saddess days in the history of science.

Though this is, in many ways, a leap in the right direction, it also leads to unbridled desperation on the part of those who wield power.

He's just a bratty, snotty kid in Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story, SMB3 is depicted at a theatrical reenactment, and in the New SMB games his kidnappings of Peach just seem like him killing time over an open weekend, perhaps to Mario and Peach's irritation but not to any real fear or desperation on their part.

Due to power outages, the crew details their dark weekend by reviewing some games played out of desperation on handhelds with dwindling battery.

The year is 1962 however, and any desperation on Clem's part pales in comparison to the urgency of world events.

It's just the way it can be because there can be such desperation on both sides.

When the current model launched in 2003 as an» 04, the boldly styled vehicle demonstrated desperation on the part of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. designers to craft a family hauler that broke the mold for minivans, injecting passion and style into an otherwise drab segment.

«This shift in enrollment patterns helps explain desperation on the part of groups such as the so - called Arizonans for Charter School Accountability.

When Jeff and his idiot friend Shawn Eckhart plot to take down Kerrigan, it's positioned as an act of desperation on Jeff's part to try to win Tonya's love, executed with gormless incompetence.

It makes for an interesting companion to Christopher Nolan's summer hit, showing the desperation on the other side of the conflict and the belief that, should the forces fall, the war effort would be all but lost.

Returning director Francis Lawrence casts a gray overtone of gloom and desperation on Panem, whose citizens have been beaten down, physically and mentally.

Returning to the same ground of a highly successful film some 20 years later often smacks of desperation on the part of a filmmaker or an actor intent on recapturing past glory.

The hope and underlying desperation on his wife's face when she begs Tom to keep the newfound baby as their own are really what persuade him to agree to her plan.

«I would say at this point we're starting to see a little desperation on the part of the woman who I support and I'll support until whatever time she makes a different determination,» Paterson said then.

Faced with declining support in the legislature and opposition from law enforcement, this backdoor attempt at gun control is a disgraceful sign of desperation on the part of its proponents.

Dr. Bossman Asare, head of the Political Science Department of the UG, claimed President Mahama's targeted blows at the NPP flagbearer, is a clear sign of desperation on the part of the President and the NDC to retain power.

The Daily Mail reports on the move which would see the 26 year old earn # 200k a week with the Premier League side ready to stump up # 50m to land the former Benfica man, would this amount to an act of desperation on Louis van Gaal's part or a necessary sum for a player of real quality?

It must reflect a desperation on her part.

It is a perplexing fact, and perhaps an indication of some desperation on Whitehead's part, that he fell into the trap of describing personal identity in terms that refer to a common character.

This «twist» bespoke desperation on the part of the writers — who, having failed to make her character interesting in the present tense, sought to do it retrospectively.

If I'm right and I think I am, it is pure desperation on the part of the Conservatives.

The startup path is strewn with aspiring entrepreneurs who give up at the first tough challenge, are quick to make excuses or burn themselves out in stubborn desperation on a broken objective.

Not exact matches

Two came on great reads by the Seahawks» defense (though one throw he probably should have held onto), and the last, as mentioned, came in an end - of - game, desperation situation.

While the metrics on the white board are different, Coach Dave's words remain eternal: energy (number of hours worked of overtime), effort (percentage of new product developments and revenue streams created by non-Bauer family staff) and desperation (the proportion of our overhead to sales, or how efficient we are in utilizing our capital and labor in our hungry quest for higher profit margins) remain an integral part of the winning formula.

But on the last play of the game, as the Raiders tried to lateral the ball in desperation, chaos took over, and the Eagles were able to recover the ball and run it into the end zone for a 19 - 10 lead with the extra point pending.

They ingest more drugs than seems humanly possible, sell worthless stocks to anyone they can get on the phone, paw at every woman that comes near with a kind of slobbering, animalistic desperation, and (spoiler alert) more or less get away with it.

The letter goes on to say that Chancellor George's Osborne's proposed emergency budget to plug the» # 30 billion ($ 43 billion) black hole» in the wake of a Brexit was «ludicrous,» and «scaremongering born of desperation.

But millions of people need help to erase a feeling this strong, to carry them through desperation and be reminded that they don't have to carry the weight on their own.

Her critics, clearly, are banking on «act of desperation.»

«At their desks on the other side of the Atlantic, Druckenmiller and Soros saw the rate hikes as an act of desperation by a dying man.

Companies rely on desperation in these communities, knowing they can win valuable incentives just by dangling a few low - wage jobs.

And then where I think the president has an issue with Bannon is that the president was already well ahead of Bannon on the desperation of the working class.

Richard Guttfield emailed the founder of Amazon in desperation after his 11 - month - old miniature schnauzer Wilma was taken on Friday.

It's time for the premier to publicly reject the Petronas plan to use workers and businesses overseas and use the next year to fight for B.C. workers and an LNG industry built by them, rather than giving up on them in her desperation to get an unsupportable project underway,» he said.

As the role of religion gradually dwindles, their desperation for wanting their beliefs to have a significant impact on reality will increase.

One who doesn't accept Jesus, and keeps on sinning, faces the consequences of the sin: desperation, depression, misfortune, etc..

My parents had graciously (read: heard the desperation in my voice and taken pity on me) invited us all...

My parents had graciously (read: heard the desperation in my voice and taken pity on me) invited us all over for pizza on the last night.

My parents had graciously (read: heard the desperation in my voice and taken pity on me) invited us all over for pizza that Friday night.

The score is tied with just seconds left on the clock, a collective breath is drawn and held as the desperation pass is lofted toward the end zone just as...

The near - successful attempt to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944, was undertaken, Mommsen suggests, in a spirit of desperation to demonstrate the seriousness of the conspirators and the vulnerability of the regime.

It is in this desperation, this recognition of our smallness and limits that we turn to God, on a daily basis, and pray for strength, courage, and hope.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

The trouble is that among the twelve million Christians left in the Middle East, it is hard to find a leader who does not reflect the rage and desperation of a community on its way to extinction.

CNN, you're on your last legs, and your desperation is showing.