Sentences with phrase «more desperate times»

Growing up, I never sat down for a meal without a book, magazine, or - in more desperate times - a shopping catalog to flip through.

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To add insult to injury, some of the camp - dwellers were so desperate for more time that they were reportedly scammed into paying a man who claimed to work with the property owner's management company and promised them an extension.

The company's current solution is to cut back on production for some items and hire more salespeople to improve in - store displays for its cereals — presumably so Americans will have a harder time ignoring the desperate cries of Snap, Crackle, and Pop on the way to get some Chobani.

But the next time you're desperate for a quick energy fix to get you through the day, experiment with one or more of these alternatives.

If you want the growth industry look for more people to get back into part - time recruiting, new companies flush with new cash will get desperate for talent will overbid.

The ever more desperate attempts to force the world into the shape of a text has been translated and mistranslated a million times into as many languages over thousands of years are the vicious attacks of a cornered animal.

Every time you post you look more and more desperate to prove you're actually not a houseplant.

We must understand that the word believe means much more than a one - time reach to God in a desperate moment.

We are all, at least some of the time, in the situation of the rich young man; we have more than we need, certainly more than others who are destitute and desperate.

Just 5 — 0 up at half time, the team returned to the pitch desperate to make more of a dent in the opposition.

The first goal is remarkable for the defensive chaos in the visitor's ranks: each desperate hack clear only created a greater hole, and by the time Nigel Winterburn clipped a cross onto Alan Smith's head, there were more attacking players in the six - yard box than there were defenders.

We will see the true agenda of the board if they're willing to spend and overspend as teams know we are desperate, top top top class players as Wenger calls them will want more money to join us lol I just hope this time next year we will be celebrating rather than risking losing anyone else.

Today interested me, we pressed collectively and very well, forcing Stoke into mistake after mistake, but it was more than that, we saw Cazorla, Coquelin even Koscielny striking from far out, I think I counted 5 or 6 times where we just played the simple ball over the top looking for Walcott, it will be interesting to see if this was just a one off, desperate as we were to get a goal at home.

But this time, the situation is even more desperate.

And a lot of the Gunners involved are likely to be desperate for more game time, so the likes of David Ospina, Calum Chambers, Gabriel, Gibbs, Iwobi, Chamberlain and the new signing Mohamed Elneny should be up for it anyway.

We still have at least three more Champions League games to play and the FA cup games start soon after the turn of the year, while our regular injury problems and the desperate wish of the fans to challenge for the Premier League makes these league cup games and the timing of them in an already busy fixture list seem like a nuisance.

In this time of the year where we are so desperate for anything hockey / Jets related, this article comes as more of an annoyance than anything.

why wait till the end of the window when most players have already moved and teams can overcharge you because they know you do nt have much time and youre more desperate to buy.

It seems Wenger is more desperate than ever to get it right this time.

Having resisted the temptation to dismiss Bilic in the summer, when time and options were more plentiful, the owners had effectively painted themselves into a corner by tolerating increasingly desperate performances until even they must have known that the team were certain relegation candidates unless immediate changes were made.

If Wenger had been proactive with his subs, (a) they would have had more time to make an impact, instead of being thrown on when we were desperate and the game was frantic, and (b) they would have come into a team who were looking ok and just needed a bit of cutting edge around the box.

The closer the spacing between your children, the more difficult it becomes because it is hard to get a decent feeding in for Baby # 2 when Baby # 1 doesn't have the attention span to finish a book or even an Elmo DVD (desperate times call for desperate measures).

With a house full of kids, every day is a series of desperate times, some more desperate than others — but always calling for desperate measures.

(TP, June) seems like yet another attempt to push through more redundancies and increase unemployment when times are already desperate enough.

That explains the 2015 election - time bazaar, by a president more than desperate for re-election, and was cocky he had enough cash to splash.

For the first time in more than a decade, the party is absolutely desperate for activists and might actually listen to what they have to say.

And at one of my lowest points this craziness wound me up in the hospital with gastric obstruction surgery as I swallowed a tooth brush desperate to purge just one more time.

When online dating services first became a reality more than fifteen years ago such services mainly used newspaper personals and personal ads for marketing purposes which also assisted the industry to gain exposure but at the same time allowing singles to find out about such services and remain annonymous given that online dating wore the «desperate» tag back then.

They had developed the relationship to talking to each other a few times a week; he was getting more and more desperate to see her, and asked me what I thought.

As women age, they are desperate to live their lives their way and spend more time with people they are comfortable with.

Additionally, spending more time talking to girls in real life will take the desperate edge off your online communications and make you more successful with your digital dating life as well.

International dating takes more time than local dating and is not for the desperate and needy.

Stone gives himself much credit of «telling the truth» about Alexander's bisexuality as if it's some progressive badge of honor, but at the same time he can't get away from the cruelest, least imaginative stereotyping: His Alexander, as expressed through the weepy histrionics of Colin Farrell, is more like a desperate housewife than a soldier.

This allows me to segue seamlessly into The Child in Time and its educational debates... Campbell Moore played Charles, who despite writing a government paper on the need for more rigid discipline for children, rejects society and runs off into the woods in a desperate bid to find his own inner child.

With his 1970's Adonis hair and charming smile, you get the sense that Tarr has used his wiles more than once to accomplish his goal, but this time he's been knocked for a loop by a Russian woman (Svetlana Khodchenkova, Little Moscow) that he is desperate to save.

The more time runs down on Martin's ultimatum, the more desperate everyone becomes, tightening tension until you're out of breath.

Even when reaching for the operatic, he keeps the focus on small human foibles: a cellphone going off at a funeral; a car parked who knows where; a teenager (Lucas Hedges, in what should be a star - making breakout turn) whose mourning process is no more preoccupying than his desperate attempts to get some alone time with his girlfriend.

Has there ever been a more apt description of the cinema's capacity for imperfectly rendering our memory, lost to time, which we are forever desperate to reclaim?

It feels desperate to cover every imaginable base, nowhere more so than during a ridiculous curtain call that sees Frodo mouthing our heroes» names as they saunter half - time into a sun - kissed Serrault, the picture's romantic tableaux not nearly so affecting this time around as they have been in the past.

Despite some desperate attempts to plug the hole with big - name guest stars like James Spader and Kathy Bates (both of whom made Season Eight more tolerable), the writing was already on the wall by the time Season Nine rolled along.

At times it shows promise, but as it keeps moving along it gets more and more desperate.

From the opening act — a get familiar with the edge of your seat intro pitting Kirk (Chris Pine), McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana) Sulu (Jon Cho) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) in a desperate mission to prevent a volcano from erupting — Abrams promises one of the more exhilarating times you'll spend in a theater this summer.

It all ends up being nothing more than a poorly paced waste of time, the final moments surprisingly exploitive in a way the reminded me more of I Spit on Your Grave or Last House on the Left than they did The Petrified Forest, Key Largo or The Desperate Hours.

While the movie has plenty of emotional moments, in my opinion it could have been even stronger had it committed more time to either Cecil's long run in The White House or the father - son generational struggles between Cecil and his desperate - for - change son played with fire by David Oyelowo (from Freedom Rider to Black Panther).

Drag Me to Hell Rated PG - 13 for sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Writer / director Sam Raimi (Spiderman / Evil Dead) brings us this tale about a young girl so desperate to become an assistant manager at her bank that she turns down an old woman who requests some more time to pay back her loan.

You will see more of his combative nature as time goes by and you will see him engage in desperate measures if cornered.

Many of the students that come to us for help are rather desperate: they are trying to balance their work, their personal life, and their academic career all at the same time, and the teachers judging their work are often giving them more assignments than ever before, making it harder and harder to succeed.

Once more, he finds himself in a desperate race — this time with the Barbary Pirates, a powerful band of Muslim outlaws from North Africa.

This time I'm a little more selective but I'm still worried — a constant barrage of seemingly desperate people pushing their books only annoys me and I'll have nothing to do with their books.

Personal loans can free up a little more wiggle room for these once - a-year bills, but sometimes, shoppers do not know how some companies try to take advantage of desperate consumers at this hectic time of year.