Sentences with phrase «in desperate circumstances»

When we are married to someone who is also three - dimensional and complicated and feeling those pressures too, it is possible to find ourselves in desperate circumstances.

This travel ban has caused large - scale rights violations and senseless family separation, and left thousands of refugees stranded in desperate circumstances.

The work reveals an extreme intimacy that perhaps can only be found in desperate circumstances.

All the same, Ms. Strauss was out there in Katrina's awful wake, outside the privileged confines of the Whitney Museum, providing necessary support to Americans in desperate circumstances.

Stars: Retta, Mae Whitman, Matthew Lillard, Manny Montana, Reno Wilson Producers: Jenna Bans, Avi Nir Premise: Three «good girl» suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.

In Red Sparrow, Jennifer Lawrence plays a character who begins in desperate circumstances.

A research community that has no moral standards for directing its investigations or judging the results, that has no way of knowing whether it really knows anything at all, and that saddles human beings with expectations and demands that they (being human and not divine) are constitutionally incapable of fulfilling is in desperate circumstances.

But because this covenant was offered to people wandering in the desert in desperate circumstances, it is renewed in Joshua 24, in which the next generation of Israel has the opportunity to freely choose to accept it.

Not exact matches

Many of those who are sick and suffering, who are financially desperate — indeed, many throughout the globe who are physically persecuted for their beliefs — will never experience delivery from their circumstances in this lifetime.

I've been told by some complementarians that women are permitted to teach in such circumstances because «desperate times call for desperate measures.»

However in these cases they lived in quite poor circumstances, their families became ill, no one was converted and they came back to Australia sick, broken and financially desperate.

Under normal circumstances the prospect of WBA arriving at The Ems when we are in desperate need of three points would bring a smile especially as despite the furore we are unbeaten in 4 games and have 8 points from 12.

«These are human beings who are in desperate straits and desperate circumstances,» the former international development secretary told the Today programme.

A polisher may also provide sexual services in certain circumstances, if his economic situation is desperate enough.»

And, he added, that «most people believe that employees who steal are doing so because they are poor, in desperate need of money for, say, medical treatment or other dire circumstances.

The hopelessness cultivated in the preceding 90 minutes as a means to transform Abdi into a victim of circumstance is weirdly forgotten in a third act desperate to engineer an optimistic conclusion.

The race riots in 1967 Detroit caused looting, burning and desperate circumstances for all involved.

Desperate circumstances lead a man to a family he never knew he had in this made - for - cable comedy - drama.

Traveling to Japan in search of their mentor (Liam Neeson), who is rumored to have disavowed Christianity and taken a Japanese wife, Rodrigues and his fellow Jesuit Father Garrpe (Adam Driver) are confronted with abject poverty and an oppressive government that condemns Christians to live in fear — desperate circumstances the fathers believe can be improved only by faith in God.

Defiant toward authority in a less focused way, posturing and posing for selfies amid desperate circumstances, Halley feels like an emblem of today's America, with its social media addictions and tattered safety net.

She managed to win over audiences as a sloppy criminal in Identity Thief and her latest comedy, Tammy, finds her turning to robbery in more desperate circumstances.

Circumstances come to an inevitable head in the compound, forcing the child, her two competing mothers and a male soldier (Paddy Considine, always great) on a desperate road trip into the infected wilderness.

Set in the desolate towns, cities, and farms of Montana, the film yields a quiet, sneaking, cumulative power as these women try and, more often than not, fail to forge connections in awkward, sometimes desperate yet naturalistic circumstances.

What he seems to be saying, in an observation underscored by Ashley's desperate economic and familial circumstances, is that deprivation comes in many colors, but exploitation is a one - way street.

Our commitment to detailed research means that we endeavour to ask questions which might explain the failure of many member states to live up to their responsibilities and the degree to which the European Union as a whole is treating people that are being in vulnerable and desperate circumstances.

We have these same desperate circumstances in Detroit.

A whirlwind of circumstances, coincidences, and consequences bring Doc, Squib, Hunger, Hazel, and Mildred together in a perhaps ill - conceived plot for revenge, which nudges Leonard Pelf, a broken, angry, and desperate foster kid, squarely onto Christopher's path.

«Betel nut beauties» are usually women in the most desperate of circumstances; the job is almost as taboo as prostitution.

To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

I strained hard to retain everything in case I decided at some future point to write a story about a girl in her last year of high school, desperate to escape her circumstances: she passes this window with a sign, army recruiting women today, and inside is handsome Major Marjac with her welcoming smile.

Consumers in desperate financial circumstances are most likely to take out cash advances.

This may be a good idea if you are in very desperate financial circumstances and your situation is unlikely to improve.

First, they provide consumers with a place to go in the midst of desperate circumstances.

Another girl was desperate because financial circumstances, incurred by student debt, had forced her to move in with relatives who would not accept her cat.

Clearly the only circumstance in which death through euthanasia can serve the interest of the animal itself is when the animal's experience of life has degraded to such a desperate point that the essence of what we all know makes life precious and desirable has vanished, and there is no hope for recovery.

A scant few years ago the appellant no doubt would have been congratulated for his display of skill and courage and indeed his survival in dangerous and desperate circumstances.

Sellers in such circumstances may feel desperate and be particularly reluctant to disclose property defects.

The sellers who are in desperate financial circumstances have no choice but to succumb to the pressure.

Most children in orphanages in Haiti are there because their mom was in a desperate financial circumstance.