Sentences with phrase «in desperate straits»

Because that is what they are supporting and every day they do so drives another nail into the coffin of the independent sector, which is now in desperate straits.

Six months earlier, another pregnant woman in desperate straits was admitted to the same hospital, with a very different ending.

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

Cryptic, hidden in its meaning, it was designed to inspire a faith in people who were in desperate straits, which would enable them to endure.

He also objected to a proposal of Luther's to write yet another protest to Cardinal Albrecht who, in desperate straits for cash, had expressed his intention of issuing a further Indulgence, from his favourite residence at Halle (where his mistresses also lived).

He begins by reminding the people of their miserable condition, of the famine, and he insists that they are in desperate straits.

Both neighborhood regeneration and Psalm 51 begin with people in desperate straits («crushed bones»).

In desperate straits financially, and looking for a way to find more readers, they moved the journal to Chicago in 1891.

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But the truth is that there are plenty of people who find themselves in desperate financial straits despite having initially had every intention of paying their creditors.

Esprit emerged from the buyout so deeply in debt — and Tompkins Buell's subsequent helmsmanship left the company in such desperate financial straits — that it went into technical default on its outstanding loans within less than two years.

The Hammers did their bit for nearly skint Dagenham and Redbridge last night who are in desperate financial straits.

Parents in such desperate straits can wind up compromising their children's health, health officials say.

Meanwhile, businessman Bill Owens (D) is up with ads touting his military background and resume as a job - creator in an area that is in desperate economic straits.

«Unlike Carey, who had a solvent state trying to salvage New York City... Cuomo inherits a state that is in desperate fiscal straits and no one has ever bailed out a state,» said Bruce Gyory, a political consultant who teaches about national and state voting trends at the state University at Albany.

But if you are in really desperate straits, a student loan is infinitely preferable to a maxed - out credit card.

As Brody finds himself in increasingly desperate straits, he returns to his faith for guidance in an unexpected way.

But certainly Statham has achieved a legitimate level of stardom to avoid z - grade actioners like this, and folks like Ray Liotta and John Rhys - Davies can't possibly have reached financial straits as desperate as to require their participation in adventure films as flimsy and unengaging as this.

An interesting double - bill partner to Steve James» terrific «The Interrupters» from a few years back, it focuses on Brenda Myers - Powell, who survived an unbelievably tough life and twenty - five years as a sex worker in Chicago and now runs the Dreamcatcher Foundation, offering counselling to women on the streets, in prison or in otherwise desperate straits.

While searching for her hubby at a local bingo hall, Ray finds his abandoned car and crosses paths with Lila (Misty Upham), a young Native - American woman in equally - desperate straits.