| He is so weedy and nerdy and in desperate need of a few hours down at the gym that you just want to slap him around a few times. |
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| The discussion was fast paced and jocular, with nearly all of the jokes at the expense of IMX's desperate competitors. |
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| But he has been unable to rid England of this desperate inability to smack second-raters in the face. |
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| It is common to blame this tell-all culture on people who go on trashy talk shows, or second-rate celebrities desperate for publicity. |
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| I tried to make a joke of it, but my laugh was fake, a desperate tint to it, well the whole thing seemed desperate actually. |
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| One young lass is desperate to make it as a singer, but finds that she's having more success slinging the drinks as a barmaid. |
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| So it's every mum for herself in an individualistic, market-driven world, desperate to keep one baby yoga class ahead of the Joneses. |
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| After a long week at work I am desperate for a glass of wine, so getting stuck into a lemon barley water on a Friday night seems rather sad. |
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| Anthony and I stared at him and smiled thin smiles, desperate not to catch each other's eye. |
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| Elsewhere, desperate refugees build a raft, or use blown-up plastic bags to try to float across the river. |
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| Ness sounds as hushed, gravelly, and desperate as always, singing over that ragged guitar twang. |
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| Laughter erupted again and the beloved professor's life revealed one man's desperate search for truth. |
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| Hastily formed forces like the U. S. Army's Task Force Smith resisted valiantly, but the infantry was overrun in desperate rearguard battles. |
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| This reduces cost and administration over-head for organisations desperate to cut costs. |
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| But despite desperate attempts to convince the Irish duo to back the reappointments, the pair abstained from voting. |
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| They resorted to one last desperate banzai mission that was put down without much of a struggle. |
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| Omar's speech was a desperate move to rally what little support he had left. |
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| To try to make their submission stand out, desperate publishers have taken to theming their entries. |
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| A crack addict carrying a burglar and stolen goods in his car rammed a police vehicle during a desperate car chase. |
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| A huge scrum developed around the vehicles as desperate people tried to get places. |
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| The workers say they need to keep the screens for protection against people who are so desperate they lash out. |
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| Well, you can throw that pledge on the scrap heap of desperate promises never kept. |
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| That doesn't disguise the reality that they are scraping the barrel in a desperate attempt to save a dying industry. |
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| Doctors, social workers and people with HIV describe a desperate scramble to gain access to lifesaving medications. |
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| When pulling rank fails to get him off the hook, Wade resorts to desperate measures to escape justice. |
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| It helps that most of us are Scottish and everyone is desperate to win for themselves and for the team. |
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| Hard times sometimes called for desperate measures, and wherrymen were not averse to a bit of smuggling. |
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| In a desperate attempt to locate Peter, Charlotte, a Scotswoman who can speak fluent French, enlists to become an undercover courier. |
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| In those first, terrible days after the storm and catastrophic flood, the poorest citizens were locked in a desperate struggle for survival. |
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| The desperate men especially the oiler and the correspondent moved quick as they bailed water from the little boat. |
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| I would think it was a very tearful and desperate time for him and I think this has probably been the closest he has come to going under. |
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| Her arms flailed up and around in a desperate and truly valiant bid to keep her seat. |
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| Everyone keeps on about a new start for the New Year but I just feel sluggish and in desperate need of a major make-over. |
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| The only thing expressed in this election was a cry for help from a confused and lost nation, desperate to keep up appearances. |
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| The outcome will be economic aggravation, dashing the desperate hope for an economic recovery. |
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| Here and there lay the bodies of a few raiders, killed by desperate farmers wielding crude weapons. |
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| The sensitivity usually rises from musicians desperate to receive some encouragement for the notes they commit to manuscript paper. |
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| A pre-school, which has been open for nearly 40 years, faces a desperate fight for survival after its building was badly damaged by flooding. |
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| The rejection came just days after the Oscar winner publicly confessed she was desperate for a cameo as one of the show's baddies. |
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| I can't understand what made me so desperate to keep some manky old cables and nick-nacks from my desk. |
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| Last night, her shocked brother told of how he made a desperate bid to save her. |
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| At the same time, Leeds back-pedalled and the style of football they adopted made them desperate to watch. |
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| Within seconds, the field stretched and half were left behind, so the backmarkers faced a desperate chase for 10 miles before order was restored. |
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| I can remember struggling to match 10 different plugs to 10 different sockets and configure a PC in a desperate attempt to have a teleconference. |
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| When we moved four years ago, we were in desperate need of a place because we had been burned out of our old house. |
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| Captain Prisk and his men, together with the other mine owners in the Northern Flinders Ranges were in desperate need of teamsters. |
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| It is a desperate act of brinkmanship from Barak, a soldier turned politician, who finds himself backed into a corner. |
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| I say it's nothing more than desperate attempts for votes this election year season. |
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| Leonard pushed the rattle with his mitten and gurgled very babyishly for Mother, desperate not to be put to bed. |
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| I don't think they want a major confrontation when they are desperate to enter the mainstream of politics. |
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| They are desperate for the victory having gone off the boil in recent weeks. |
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| I was desperate for approval and to find some common ground to smooth over an unpleasantly awkward couple of days. |
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| Despite being the only boy in his dancing class, he loved ballet and was desperate to start a career as a dancer. |
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| Her feet seemed to take on an intelligence of their own, searching out desperate toeholds on the creek-bottom. |
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| Improbable tales of true love overcoming desperate odds are a hallmark of Bollywood, the Indian film genre watched by millions worldwide. |
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| Learning of her father's desperate finances, she decides to take one for the team and marry Roger. |
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| An Arsenal defeat could lead to a desperate tailspin damaging the two crucial cup ties that come along in February. |
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| Despite the desperate efforts of the local inhabitants, the school building was totally gutted by the time the firefighters got to the scene. |
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| Surgeons are being paid three times their normal daily wages by desperate health chiefs racing to beat the clock over waiting times targets. |
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| A desperate dearth of top-shelf artworks is having a profound impact on Australia's salerooms. |
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| The film tells the story of a ragged group of orphan children who attempt a desperate walk to freedom across a war-torn country. |
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| Some will picture a desperate refugee fleeing fear and persecution for the safe haven of a new country. |
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| Are you saying that each and every one of these 4 million is a desperate loser, a waster, a drop-out? |
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| Most print dealers were so desperate that they would undercut your price by a measly hundred dollars just to ace you out of a deal. |
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| I was desperate for an evening of peace and quiet, and a bit of easy entertainment, but I was being denied it. |
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| With one daughter already and another baby on the way, she is desperate for a bigger place in which to raise their family. |
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| We were desperate to emulate our heroes in Bulgaria and Russia, so we ripped our ballet tights and wore our sweatshirts inside out. |
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| Crucially it reveals the quirks in our behaviour that marketers are desperate to gain an insight into. |
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| Maybe it is just a character study of a sad, desperate man and his sad depressing life. |
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| The only sounds were the crackling fire, and Cattannia's desperate calling. |
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| Mary Ryan, from Property Vision, has viewed the house and believes it is in desperate need of a makeover. |
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| As Watson went in for the kill, a desperate Eubank caught him with a right hand and took the ascendancy. |
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| He is desperate to be given a chance to atone for the worst experience of his fledgling career. |
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| There is probably a biological reason why, no matter how desperate one is to do a poo, one always has to have a wee wee first. |
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| If a kidnap kingpin is operating high in the ranks of the police, this is a measure of the desperate urgency of what the public is up against. |
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| Increasingly, these seem the desperate words of self-surrender and self-sacrifice. |
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| She broke a twig from a nearby tree and began poking it into the soft ground in a desperate effort to busy herself. |
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| The pounding of the feet thunders so loud in the boy's ears that he can't even hear the desperate panting of his own lungs. |
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| Lucentio, Hortensio, and Gremio are all in love with her and go to desperate measures to woo her. |
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| Lola's desperate and often ludic attempts to exact revenge on Ricardo and Wendy provide the central narrative impetus. |
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| Once a means of social lubrication, alcohol has acquired a darker, more desperate nature. |
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| It could be about the desperate asylum seekers who die in the attempt to reach these shores. |
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| Kidman is actually quite adorable as the love-struck sorceress, desperate to trade in her broom for a groom. |
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| An Oxford medical student has described his desperate efforts to rescue a drowning man from the River Thames. |
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| How else is he supposed to assuage England's desperate hunger for success if he cannot even get players together for a few days? |
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| Amanda is the teenage runaway, eking out a desperate existence on the margins of society, amidst the detritus of the contemporary Wasteland. |
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| I get such resentful feelings towards his dad for not being here to lighten my load, or at least to lend a hand in those desperate moments. |
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| In fact, she's desperate to get maximum exposure and sets her sights on the lead role in the school play. |
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| In such a situation, it is not surprising that people will resort to desperate measures. |
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| His appointment as coach in July last year, once seen as a desperate throw of the dice, looks an ever more shrewd choice. |
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| More than a thousand desperate children under the age of 11 run away from home in Greater Manchester every year. |
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| If this source of finance runs dry, desperate borrowers like Lucent will have no place to turn. |
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| But in the desperate search for publicity, money and television interest, his agents and backers are trying to make him run before he can walk. |
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| Last year I suffered badly from bruised ankle bones, so I was desperate to find a good solution. |
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| I spent days three and four fighting for my life, desperate to gain the trust of my opponents. |
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| How could anyone be so desperate to save their own life when it means the deaths of so many other people? |
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| So last night her desperate family held a blood testing session at the Pelican Hotel to try to find Shannon's lifesaver. |
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| Most people seemed to be either arguing with each other over what to buy who, or frantically running round desperate to find things to buy. |
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| Cleaves writes about desperate men, losers and failures, all from the perspective of a bar room raconteur. |
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| The charges were not backed by any proof and were probably a last desperate throw of the dice by a hysterical woman. |
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| Rather, this looks like another attempt by the authorities to attach themselves to a cause in a desperate bid to appear caring and right-minded. |
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| Facing a bleak future of dispossession and impoverishment, they had appealed to the Supreme Court in a final desperate throw of the dice. |
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| Unable to bear the death throes of her love affair, she becomes by turns desperate and tenacious, acting out with unbridled fury. |
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| Climb the desperate slab rightwards under the first roof to a resting place. |
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| But people now losing sleep over looming crime should control the urge to adopt desperate devices, which may also cause them to lose friends. |
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| And I so badly want to surrender, desperate to loose myself but there is nothing. |
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| This is probably because we're not paranoid loons desperate for any pretext to start a fight. |
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| He took the lead in offering major concessions to municipal reformers in a desperate effort to prevent a complete rout. |
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| Unless he truly was a stalker, he was just a lonesome new kid, desperate for friends. |
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| Many feel desperate to return to city life because of the feelings of desperation and loneliness they experience in a countryside setting. |
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| I trudged down a roundabout route to the hut, my head down, a desperate desire to cry in my eyes. |
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| Predictably, she closes with the mandatory anti-establishment requirement, the desperate call to arms. |
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| His desperate opponent returns a weak shot or a lob, either of which he puts away with careless bravado. |
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| Her fortune set him up as a dealer who did a lucrative trade with French aristos desperate to sell their pictures. |
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| The herons and buzzards have left for places more congenial to watching and listening for desperate scrambling through snow. |
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| Joe, an aging thief, serves as the film's charming rogue, desperate for money and a clean getaway. |
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| When her plans to go straight reach rock bottom, a desperate soul hits the road again. |
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| The approach of the Himalayan winter is making a desperate situation even more urgent. |
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| The plants are dying and the ducks are getting desperate as their pond is dry as a bone. |
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| They supported the pork-barrelling and protection of special interests, fighting a desperate rearguard action against the advancing dries. |
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| At best, they receive a few quizzical stares, a couple of thumbs-up signs and a desperate waving of white flags. |
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| One claimed residents, some of the most desperate of the homeless on the city streets, have already noticeably improved in appearance and health. |
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| I was appalled at the political mileage that was made out of a pack of lies told about desperate people in need. |
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| The Cape Town team is currently lying mid-table and will be desperate to prove their cup success last season was no fluke. |
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| His chip kick was partially charged down, but the bounce took it in front of the posts only for desperate Waterloo cover to clear the danger. |
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| However, surrounding tribes rose up and forced a desperate retreat through mountainous country. |
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| There was desperate silence, as if David was hoping that if he waited long enough, the question would be retracted. |
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| It tells the story of Ellie, Gerald and Dan, three street punks fresh from reform school, who are desperate and need money. |
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| Eventually they believe that there must be something to the charges because the endless parsing of it sounds lawyerly, desperate and boring. |
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| This includes pipelines that have been blown up in recent months as well as production facilities that are in desperate need of repair. |
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| In its last pitch it made a desperate bid to reopen the trial, calling new witnesses, and this was of course refused. |
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| His organization is already receiving frantic calls from desperate renters. |
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| The challenge yields some intriguing results, but it ultimately leaves one desperate for real content. |
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| It's a single lane for you, a single lane for oncoming traffic, and in the middle they've painted an obviously desperate double red line. |
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| They have been desperate to avoid setting off an array of landmines with hair triggers. |
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| The injury that laid him up for so long, and caused him to wreak revenge was self-inflicted, a result of that desperate lunge. |
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| And it is fair to say they are rather desperate to catch Chucky the alligator and the other five alligators. |
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| You were a beautiful but desperate Polish philologist carrying a large ray gun through the city streets. |
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| Even if the music world doesn't realize it, people are a little desperate to hear something that isn't just a rehash. |
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| The Blair government meanwhile is desperate to regain the high ground on its decision to go to war. |
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| It was an act of desperate frustration with a public he saw as wrongly withholding its affections. |
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| The memorandum warned that 20,000 acres lay in desperate need of reforestation. |
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| There's more than a trace of Margo in Jules, the lying, desperate marriage wreaker of My Best Friend's Wedding. |
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| He was workshopping an innovative movement performance with street people, the desperate and creative young. |
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| The performance of both sides was very much that of two teams desperate to avoid the wooden spoon. |
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| She's clearly high as a kite and in desperate need of medication, but he keeps on filming. |
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| The 24-year-old singer is desperate to be cast in Universal Pictures' reboot of the classic 1983 Al Pacino gangster film. |
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| Mary, meanwhile, though desperate to free herself from her mother's influence, aches to do the same to her own child. |
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| Both had made death threats against her before her desperate flight from the murder scene. |
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| Although villagers are desperate for a new hall, they will be sad to see the back of the old one. |
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| The Government keeps thrashing around for that magic bullet, desperate to eliminate this crisis once and for all. |
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| In 1808-1811, the British navy, desperate for able-bodied seamen, impressed more than six thousand Americans. |
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| Neither of those lofty attributes encompassed the desperate desire to win the support of tabloid newspapers. |
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| There was Sara being held down by nurses as she thrashed around, desperate to get back to her husband. |
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| He had then tried to juggle the accounts in a desperate bid to balance the books. |
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| He hasn't grudged Andy a moment of his time in the spotlight but has been desperate for a taste of it of his own. |
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| The organisers of the protest now face a desperate rush over the next month to ensure that they are ready in time for the summit. |
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| So they said goodbye after breakfast and parasailed, kneeboarded and jet-skied before coming back desperate for supper and bed. |
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| In a desperate act of revenge, assisted by the US secret services, the Spanish government is threatening to reopen the case. |
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| The stone toe of Saint Jude, patron of impossible causes, was worn smooth by the desperate kisses of the faithful. |
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| The stabbing was a desperate response to his behaviour, after she had been worn down by years of mistreatment. |
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| The chances of survival for South Africa's most endangered mammal, the riverine rabbit, looks even more desperate than has commonly been feared. |
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| The offence went unpunished and possession was lost and in the race to get back Nick Carter made a desperate tackle and was sin-binned. |
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| Or had I been blinded by my own passion, and my own desperate yearning for her to see me as I saw her? |
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| Anthony lost the first set 3-6, and defeat seemed certain as he looked desperate to shake off the jitters to trail 1-4 in the second set. |
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| The emcee is desperate to get us to stay, but half the audience gets up to leave anyway. |
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| When the goods delivered to the loading dock aren't what customers are shopping for, stores must resort to the desperate measure of price markdowns. |
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| Robert Pavlik, chief market strategist at banyan Partners, disagreed the acquisition was a desperate move. |
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| Factory owners desperate for workers have resorted to taking out full-page want ads in the city's Chinese newspapers, but they say they have gotten minimal results. |
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| Without Dawn and her desperate need to cling to power, the evil place falls apart. |
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| Today I find myself in the loop for some desperate emails winging between California and Illinois about fire retardant materials and meetings with the Los Angeles Fire Chief. |
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| In dozens of villages, many cut off from rescuers by quake-induced landslides, relatives desperate to find their loved ones dug through rubble with their bare hands. |
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| When Pinkerton finally reappears, bringing his American wife with him, Butterfly bids a desperate farewell to her boy before retiring behind a screen to commit hara-kiri. |
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| Increasingly desperate to procure himself a place in history, last week he managed a new trophy to set beside the Boy Scout woggle, which sits proudly on his desk. |
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| Her latest stumble on the rocky road to recovery, being caught with crack cocaine at a drug rehab center, shows that she is in desperate need of help. |
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| His unstuffy manner has also gained him increasing respect in a German business world desperate to modernise beyond its engineering and banking base. |
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| His anxious relatives are desperate for reassurance that he is safe. |
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| I was so desperate I was down to pawning my grandmother's ring. |
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| It was the one luxury they enjoyed, and no matter how desperate they might be for money, they never entertained the thought of pawning their computer. |
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| In the summer of 2006, an obscure mullah in Calcutta seemed desperate for some media attention. |
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| From documents written during and after the time, historians gleaned that the desperate settlers may have engaged in cannibalism. |
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| Detectives, who have today launched a major hunt for her abductors, say the girl made desperate attempts to stop passing cars but nobody pulled over. |
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| And, just like Katniss, we need rules that make solidarity a centerpiece of shared life, not a desperate act of rebellion. |
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| The younger woman is constantly worn down by the older woman's negativity, Mag's abrasive personality pushing her to increasingly desperate little acts of rebellion. |
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| She is an attractive, weak-minded and desperate middle-aged teacher who gives into the temptation of sleeping with a reasonably virile teenage boy who has a crush on her. |
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| In London, the housing crisis is very acute, there is a desperate shortage of social housing and with house prices so unreachable for the majority, few people are able to buy. |
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| This is an acute sound, which evokes desperate associations. |
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| The excitement it caused can be likened to a desperate family's reaction to an imaginary movement made by a comatose patient. |
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| City are desperate to add quality to a team which is not scoring enough. |
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| We might have thought The comeback was about a desperate actress's shameless struggle for fame. |
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| The promise of home ownership, eternal sunshine, and companionship with like-minded people lured them into a desperate trap. |
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| Temujin now rallies the tribes for a desperate attack on Urga. |
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| At this juncture, there is a desperate need for human contact. |
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| The desperate peace moves came as gangs armed with guns and machetes rampaged through the streets of the capital Port-au-Prince in the latest outbreak of violence there. |
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| He probably only goes to constituent meetings where they cheer on his desperate antics. |
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| At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it. |
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| A passer-by made a desperate attempt to locate the boys, followed by a park ranger and a police officer who was on the scene within about five minutes. |
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| Such desperate actions are in contravention of their vows and faith to renounce violence in all forms. |
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| He and Jessen convinced a stunned and desperate CIA that they were the ones to run a new interrogation program. |
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| There was something desperate about it, watching them wander away and out of sight and for ages I just stood where they had left me and let out small involuntary whimpers. |
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| People from many other nationalities, including some from Scotland, Ireland and Wales, have been desperate for the day when he falls flat on his face. |
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| In one of the last desperate acts of World War II, the SS dumped crates full of counterfeit money into nearby Lake Toplitz. |
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| Her family claims staff failed to respond to her desperate cries for help, and believe they only came to her aid when she collapsed from her injuries. |
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| In a scene repeated in shops all over Hampshire youngsters who had managed to get hold of the book were desperate to start reading it as soon as it was in their hands. |
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| She is desperate for work but is deflated by the regular knock-backs. |
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| As the economy has unraveled over the past three years, managers desperate to prop up profits have been beating the bushes for new ways to cut costs. |
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| Rather quickly though, the desperate looking teen recovers and then decides to glare menacingly at me as if registering my presence in the room at last. |
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| Now, allottees, in desperate need of cash, could sell their land. |
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| However, Don ends up ceding the LA office to Ted, leaving his marriage in a desperate state of disrepair. |
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| Although its cries were becoming increasingly desperate as the din of barking and shouting intensified, the thought of trying to help never entered my mind. |
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| We go into the most desperate situations to provide medical relief. |
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| The Lohan on set was a self-aware girl who knows exactly what the world thinks of her and is desperate to change their minds. |
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| Naturally, being hopped up like jackrabbits at Easter, these desperate dudes go seeking the sexy savages, hoping to finally know the touch of a woman, primitive or not. |
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| Here we see the furtive behavior of Tomik as a desperate need to connect, and even, given his repression, as an understandable misdirection of desire. |
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| It seems like Savage is really desperate to return to the big time in pro wrestling, but why would he spend so much money to produce this record if he wasn't legit? |
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| His vocals on the verse are some of his most affecting and emotional yet, while the anthemic chorus provides a break of desperate hope amid the quiet despondency. |
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| Women wearing revealing dress and the desperate looks associated with drug addiction can be spotted in front, usually at night, but often in broad daylight. |
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| It was only their desperate efforts to revive him that saved his life. |
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| This might not fool a knowledgeable whiskey drinker, but how many of those desperate for Pappy are knowledgeable whiskey drinkers? |
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| In a fit of desperate inspiration Angela reached into the small white purse hanging from her shoulder and pulled out her shiny pink lipgloss and plum lipliner. |
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| Their game console may well be selling at rock-bottom prices at this point in time, but it's only a desperate gamble to stimulate sales before it completely dies. |
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| Just before the late summer sunburst farmers were in desperate straits because so little of their arable crop had been harvested, and huge losses were expected. |
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| A mother in her forties wrote that she had long-standing problems which she was desperate not to transmit to her daughter. |
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| In 2008, his monastery was in desperate need of funds and Vreeland decided to lend a hand with his first photography exhibition. |
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| Most days a crowd of desperate Afghans try to cross the fairy castle-like gate, only to find themselves beaten back by Pakistani soldiers armed with sticks. |
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| Filmed on location in Egypt, the series also focuses on the story of the Ancient Egyptians, whose secrets and belongings the adventurers were so desperate to uncover. |
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| She was a novelty item, presented in gaudy wrapping paper by a desperate John McCain to a jaded mainstream media. |
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| Lifesavers have issued a stark safety warning after a family's frolics ended in the desperate rescue of a small child whose rubber dinghy was swept out to sea. |
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| Having been reduced to a rump of six seats in 1999, the Nationals have made a desperate bid for survival by refusing to sign a coalition agreement with the Liberals. |
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| We are desperate for someone in authority to come to our assistance. |
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| The political parties ' rushed discussion on the reform programs may be a result of their desperate attempt to calm the public outrage over corrupt politics. |
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| It is asymmetrical warfare, a desperate attempt to exploit the weaknesses of an adversary against which there are no conventional military options. |
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| At the heart of Wyler's tale is his desperate lunge at fame and riches. |
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| The youth are desperate because of the hardship of life here and the joblessness. |
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| The noise in the stadium grew for every point he won, but the points he lost were greeted with shrill, desperate screams. |
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| Volunteers gathered around landmarks and scrambled to fill hundreds of sandbags in a desperate bid to save the city's treasures from the rising waters. |
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| Every day my mailbag is stuffed to overflowing with letters from desperate people who can't even get their dealers to be civil, leave alone helpful. |
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| In recent weeks, Royle's mailbag has been swollen by letters from anxious supporters desperate to avoid a return to the bad old days before his arrival. |
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| High levels of emergency admissions, soaring drug budgets, desperate efforts to meet Government targets and the costs of major pay deals have all contributed to the problems. |
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| I used to find most agencies pushy and unprofessional in their outlook, willing to make the candidate feel desperate by mailshotting potential clients with information. |
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| Her long black locks whip around her, giving her a wild, desperate look, yet her eyes, a crystal blue azure, reflect the strength and determination of her mind. |
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| Upon finding out that she was single, the next day there were lots of articles making her out to be a desperate bachelorette, but this woman is no damsel in distress. |
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| Backed into a corner, the publishers finally made a desperate gamble. |
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| Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. |
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| In a desperate attempt to rescue her and flee oppressive barrio life, Octavio offers up his Rottweiler to the barbarous world of back alley dogfights. |
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| Security shuts the palace down and our producer is tearing his hair out, desperate to test the rocket the Queen is to launch at the start of the fireworks display. |
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| She was hounded by the prying paparazzi, desperate to label her a partied-out starlet. |
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| The herbal companies took full advantage of their discovery, and tacked signs on every telephone pole offering to buy roots from diggers desperate for money. |
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| Some of the desperate women who opted for backstreet abortions often had to have their uteruses surgically removed because of resulting massive infection. |
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| Added to his mortgage, he was forced to seek a loan from his credit union all in a desperate effort last year to purchase his children's much-needed schoolbooks. |
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| The bald figures don't begin to delineate the crisis because they don't take account of the desperate attempts by the media to retain market share. |
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| It is much more disappointing to see a Scot willingly ditching it, almost in the manner of those who, post-1707, were desperate to rid their speech of Scotticisms. |
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| I'm ashamed to admit this, but I've been buying scratchies for the last couple of weeks because I'm desperate to get a few thousand bucks together. |
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| Much of this desperate bamboozlement looks pretty transparent today. |
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| He is just too cool for school in a country desperate for the infectiousness of rejuvenation. |
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| For every Record Collector, LP paranoia eventually sets in and the beloved becomes a monster, desperate to scratch and scuff the poor helpless vinyl. |
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| You come from a political culture wedded to the short-term, to an initiative a month, all of them tied to the careers of thrusting ministers desperate to make their mark. |
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| This is the most likely medium-term solution, in the face of international condemnation and pressure, combined with its desperate need to reform its economy. |
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| The legacy of residential schools created a desperate need for healing. |
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| So, Keller takes the law into his own hands by capturing Jones and torturing him in a desperate attempt to locate the girls. |
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| During those weeks I was expressing milk at two hourly intervals, round the clock, in a desperate attempt to keep my milk and be able to nurse her. |
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| In other words, how much government is required is dependent on how much we are truly men and women, and how much we cease to be desperate and disparate isolated elements. |
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| So there are enormous consequences for all of us when the owners elect not to act like owners, but like timorous lackeys desperate to please management. |
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| Her most famous novel has apparently garnered her a host of adoring, young male fans desperate to collect her autograph and become a notch on her well-scarred bedpost. |
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| During particularly harsh beginnings upon landing in the New World, desperate colonists resorted to human flesh for sustenance. |
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| Police will combine friendly persuasion with hard line law enforcement in a desperate bid to cut the dreadful toll of motorcycle deaths in North Yorkshire. |
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| However, a common response to desperate conditions and the threat of starvation was infanticide. |
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| My thoughts turned, inconsequently, out of their channel of bitterness, to fresh, desperate questionings. |
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| Anita Wall had been looking after Jak for her brother Paul Saunders for a few weeks and is desperate to be reunited with the bird. |
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| They've hit form recently and are desperate to avoid relegation and in that mood I can see them taking points from some top sides. |
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| The ambassadors could then hope to recoup that money through bribes from merchants desperate to be included in the cafila. |
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| Had he to respond necessarily Imran's desperate quest for power with his own adamancy to keep clinging on to power? |
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| There never was so desperate a struggle, or one in which the stoutness of knightly prowess shone forth so brightly. |
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| Another neotard babbling incoherently in a desperate attempt to blame Bush economic ruin on anyone but Bush. |
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| Theo Walcott is desperate to avoid more World Cup heartache by bouncing back to his best before England jet off to Rio de Janeiro. |
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| France was nearly brought to its knees by 1709, when King Louis XIV made a desperate appeal to the French people. |
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| The next day, Mountbatten made a desperate phone call to Eden asking for permission to stop the invasion before it began, only to be refused. |
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| The kids may be desperate but I'm just window shopping for one with a waggly tail. |
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| You'd have to be very rich or very desperate to go wildcatting that far east. |
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| A HEROIN addict used a knife to steal aftershave from a town centre store in a desperate bid to secure his next fix, a court heard. |
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| Realizing his army's desperate shortage of gunpowder, Washington asked for new sources. |
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| Tragically, Ahmjid had misdialled the number in his panic and the police never heard his desperate plea for help. |
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| But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick or certain poison, were completely unprocurable. |
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| The producers were desperate to portray an image of fur coats at Old Trafford, Manchester, rather than car coats at Layer Road, Colchester. |
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| The gambler gazed at the undealt cards, desperate to know whether the ace of hearts was still among them. |
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| Campaigners and users of the track had feared that it would be forced to close as it was in desperate need of refurbishment. |
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| Brinsley got out of jail last July, and was desperate and aimless. |
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| Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. |
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| After conventional medicine failed me, spiritual healing was a desperate last hope. |
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| Making a mountain out of the occasional mole hill of good news is the desperate spin of a Conservative Chancellor who is letting down Britain. |
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| Now I am desperate to find anyone who may have worked for the coachbuilder who adapted it. |
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| A desperate shortage of water in Bradford Dale was a serious limitation on industrial expansion and improvement in urban sanitary conditions. |
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| Most importantly, no moneychanging had been arranged so they all had pockets full of US dollars they were desperate to spend and nowhere to go. |
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| They have the most beautiful cats and are desperate for good homes, donations of money, tins of cat food or dried cat food. |
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| George's evaded coastal blockades to provide supplies and munitions to the desperate Confederates. |
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| What I'm looking for is a chance for her to see that this is not some cockeye, fly-by-night, desperate act of a dying program. |
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| Surrounded by their enemies, taifa rulers sent a desperate appeal to the Berber chieftain Yusuf ibn Tashfin, leader of the Almoravids. |
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| Other desperate measures in patients who continue to do poorly are cecostomy or colectomy. |
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| The real reason for most of these deaths are the stupidity of car drivers, who are in desperate need of a re-education of their driving skills. |
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| Kibbitzed by sympathetic bystanders, the desperate driver tinkers ineffectually under the hood. |
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