Sentences with phrase «increasingly desperate state»

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.

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When the State Kills is the model for such an approach, with fascinating and accessible chapters on such topics as the never - ending quest for «painless» executions, the role of and pressures on the jury in capital cases, the portrayal of executions in contemporary films, and the increasingly desperate efforts of death - penalty lawyers to ensure that those who are condemned to die have received something approximating fair treatment under the law.

According to local sources in the Venezuelan state of Táchira, it is also increasingly easy for armed Colombian groups to recruit young, desperate Venezuelans.

«These continued flailing attempts by Defrancisco and the state Republicans to gain relevance are getting increasingly desperate,» Berman said.

Geoff Berman, a spokesman for the state Democratic Party controlled by Cuomo, said the «continued flailing attempts by DeFrancisco and the state Republicans to gain relevance are getting increasingly desperate.»

After a series of increasingly desperate pleas for gubernatorial votes on their line — including an email blast from Executive Director Dan Cantor titled «Imagine a state with no WFP» — the party had picked up more than 108,000 votes for Mr. Cuomo as of this writing, more than double the 50,000 needed to cling to the ballot for four years.