| All this over some bastardized rock-electronica, the sound of someone trying desperately to be contemporary. |
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| She tried desperately to run an efficient operation, but ultimately her self-consciousness and constant bad luck conspired against her. |
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| With their boat desperately in need of repair, the crew had beached the vessel, awaiting the return of assistance from Spain. |
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| When he cupped her cheek with his other hand in a tender concerned way, she tried desperately not to melt. |
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| Cuddly bears, toy cars, and children's books are all desperately needed for a special NSPCC Christmas party. |
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| It seems an age ago that Rangers opened their tilt for the title with what was seen as a desperately damaging 1-1 draw at Kilmarnock. |
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| The crowd was somewhat unfriendly and desperately trying to capture style, but they sensationally failed. |
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| In Strangers on a Train, Farley Granger is holding desperately onto the pole of one of the horses of an out-of-control merry-go-round. |
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| And how do you sap the energy of the insurgency when the parlous state of the economy keeps everyone desperately poor? |
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| Another population of Asiatic lions is desperately needed in order to safeguard the survival of this subspecies. |
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| Although she followed this with hit after hit, she was desperately insecure and hid herself under thick make-up and a beehive hairdo. |
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| Each attack requires a costly clean-up, using money which is desperately needed for other purposes. |
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| I try desperately not to cringe when offered tongue, frog's legs and pig's trotters, and I eat them, every time. |
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| Foundation hospitals offering bonuses and higher pay could drain the NHS of desperately needed workers, making dire staffing shortages worse. |
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| And because our treasury is being drained of hundreds of billions of dollars desperately needed at home. |
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| I desperately wanted to go to St Francois Girls' College because I lived near to it and my big sister went to that school. |
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| McElroy, who desperately wants to throw off the shackles of the drug world, has other plans. |
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| But this weekend, while visiting New York, I had one touristy thing I desperately wanted to do. |
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| Our province desperately needs a party to once again position themselves in the middle where most of the voting block is. |
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| The fact that practically all dinosaur trackways are straight strongly favours animals desperately trying to escape some catastrophe. |
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| Jim was desperately trying to make sense of the golden blur before him, trying to force the formless shapes to solidify, to identify themselves. |
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| Hull Road desperately needs speed cameras or some other traffic calming measure and has done for some time. |
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| All over England, victory-starved cricket tragics are desperately hoping that their team can finally win a series against Australia. |
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| Fox squeezed his eyes shut and desperately tried to tell himself that this was all a horrible nightmare. |
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| The results are brief snapshots of modern American life that are ruthlessly funny and desperately sad. |
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| He reports, too, on the angry young men he meets, dislocated by colonialism and desperately seeking acceptance in white supremacist Britain. |
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| It is an all-round problem and so we need desperately to get these cats homed. |
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| The right-hander was desperately trying to figure out why he was constantly being shelled last season. |
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| As we know to our cost, there is nothing more stressful than an unseemly scramble for desperately needed points in the dying weeks of the season. |
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| Now he is a lively, healthy bouncing 20-month old with no signs to show he was so desperately ill. |
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| Grandeur in appearance now that it had been smartened up, I desperately tried to avoid it. |
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| The navy was desperately in need of a cold storehouse near the water, so that the sailors' beef would not go bad before it was put on shipboard. |
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| The days of desperately trying to escape the clutches of some crashing bore in the corner of a nightclub are long gone. |
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| Fluent in both Thai and English, Wuthinan's bilingual knowledge was desperately needed manning the phones at the blood donation centre. |
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| If you're short on time and desperately in need of a one-stop option for all of your green needs, you're in luck. |
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| It was overturning cars and knocking over down buildings, trying desperately to catch Jordan. |
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| I desperately wanted to talk to those close to me and to unload that agony I was carrying alone but something always stopped me. |
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| He looked a little messy, with his hair desperately needing a trim as it was always ruffled. |
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| New Zealand desperately needs checks and balances and a system that makes politicians accountable. |
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| On the other hand, the market in which he'd made a career was desperately oversold. |
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| They calculated every vector of the arching, twisting plunge, while certain computers tried desperately to override the train's control systems. |
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| So what can he suggest to the financial controller desperately looking for value for money? |
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| A part of her first conversation with John came back to her, and her mind could not shut it out even though it desperately wanted to. |
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| The scream was followed by the sickening sensation of falling and she desperately braced herself. |
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| Anyway, he asked me some sort of question that required me to unholster my PDA and desperately mine its memory card for a lucid response. |
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| Matters aren't helped either by her desperately turgid prose style, which is likely to turn off all but the most conscientious of readers. |
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| The division and splintering of local communities continues as the monoliths desperately seek to control and dominate. |
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| She desperately searched for good footing, slipping and sliding as she tried to get back up. |
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| But the desperately bleak situation in the Middle East cannot be allowed to become a zero sum game. |
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| Dozens of family members wandered desperately between hospitals and morgues where they looked over badly burned bodies. |
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| In those days, Fraser tried desperately for the Hitchenensesque intellectual badboy motif, but came off more like an over refreshed mandarin. |
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| A frown appeared on his face, as he desperately tried to blink his tears back. |
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| Now he was desperately in need of calm, which he got in being together with other such mortals who were also equally scared. |
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| The punitive actions include economic sanctions, which are certain to deal a severe blow to the North, which desperately needs global aid. |
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| Many of the communities in this beautiful mountainous region are desperately poor. |
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| You know what makes it all desperately unfair, so unjust, is that these people aren't even getting value for money. |
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| But despite their own personal suffering the couple were determined to give a loving home to children who so desperately needed it. |
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| He was a nice old chap who tried desperately to make up for the uselessness of his subordinates. |
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| At around the same time news leaked that the leader of the rebels had desperately tried to sue for peace just before the war began. |
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| We continue to believe that interest rates will head higher as a desperately overheated economy fuels unprecedented borrowing demands. |
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| Yet, the nouveau riche are vastly outnumbered by a huge underclass of desperately poor people. |
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| After about 30 minutes of desperately attempting to fix the tube and figure out some way of bodging the tyre, I gave up and called Heather. |
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| If they are not oil rich sheikhs who plunder their country, they are poor uneducated townsfolk who desperately want to be liberated. |
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| Despite spots of tempering demand, global growth is accelerating and the US economy remains desperately overheated. |
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| The charity desperately needs volunteers who would be willing to spend even one hour a week just talking to lonely older people, he says. |
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| I was trying desperately to push my books into my overfull bag when Sara passed me another piece of paper. |
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| He wants desperately to be at the birth but the baby was four days overdue when he had to come to York for the UK event. |
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| International ventures abounded even at a time when the British government tried desperately to contain efforts to suborn workers. |
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| Recurrent dreams are normally significant as they are usually a message your subconscious mind is desperately trying to get to you. |
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| This class of people, the left-leaning liberal, desperately wants to believe it's post-racial. |
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| That was Jessica's voice, slightly nasal, desperately advertising the fact that any pity would be welcome. |
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| The nation is behaving like a medieval village, dressing up for the short flying visit of the king, desperately longing for attention. |
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| The prince sat in his ridiculous outfit strumming a lute that desperately needed to be tuned. |
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| Once she composed herself, and tried desperately to straighten her flyaway hair, she reached out a trembling finger and rang the doorbell. |
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| In the first, a young peasant woman desperately fights to protect an abandoned baby boy she's taken under her wing. |
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| Jessica screams as she looks into Stephanie's deadly eyes and the two women struggle desperately for survival. |
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| The hapless bird fluttered and flapped around the astonished patrons whilst desperately trying to gain its freedom. |
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| She runs desperately about, waggling her bottom at the camera until eventually someone shoots a paintball right at it. |
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| I had to try desperately to prevent my somber expression from matching one of a person walking the plank towards shark-infested waters. |
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| The abruptness of the closure announcement has left them shocked and desperately searching for an alternative venue. |
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| Wilkinson is a desperately complex person, driven by a need for absolute perfection and total control in his life. |
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| We however, in Adelaide, were handed them by the floor manager with headphones on, trying desperately to keep out of shot. |
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| Fantastically beautiful place, once you plough through the hawkers outside desperately trying to flog you the little red book. |
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| His goal was reward for keeping a cool head and desperately trying to be in the right place at the right time. |
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| Jonah desperately thumbed the lighter's switch one last time, and he was rewarded with a sudden flare of light. |
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| I desperately tried to hand out the pocketful of coupons as the frenzy grew and the kids ignored the pleas of their teachers to stop crushing me. |
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| She also blames the row on the media desperately looking for an argument in the quiet holiday period. |
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| As for the humorist-author, can the book he is jerry-building sell anywhere near so well as he almost desperately counts on? |
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| We tried desperately to stop the water coming in but it got a few feet above the door level so we gave it up as a bad job. |
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| Upon hearing this Lexy turned away and started towards the bathroom wanting desperately wanting to make her walk into a mad dash. |
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| People with time to spare are desperately needed to help give parents and carers of disabled people some well-earned rest. |
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| He knew he was taking a risk, but there was something about this scrawny little ragamuffin which made him feel desperately sorry for her. |
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| Her curiosity was raging and she desperately wanted to see what was happening. |
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| The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country. |
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| They are still desperately chasing the feature film at the end of the rainbow. |
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| This was news to me, startling news, so, although I had intuited the answer to my next question, I desperately asked it anyway. |
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| A handful of shivering Albanians are fished out of the Adriatic, distressed beyond belief, hoping desperately for signs of missing relatives. |
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| Back in the wheelhouse he was confronted by the huge ship and desperately tried to swing the wheel to head away. |
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| When those fish on your hook move their lips, they aren't just whistling Dixie, they're trying desperately to keep on breathing. |
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| Long-term funding is desperately being sought for a voluntary service that helps local victims of domestic violence. |
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| One of the old rattlers crawled into the station like a desert explorer desperately clawing his way towards an oasis. |
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| There I plonked myself back in the seat I was in before, desperately trying to recall every exact detail of recent past events. |
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| If people were desperately afraid for their personal security, there would be exactly such movements. |
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| With that, Jinx waved desperately and lashed his tail and laid his ears back in a picture of agitation. |
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| These facilities are desperately needed to rectify the acute shortage of sports pitches and playing fields in the town. |
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| Walker's script portrays a couple of go-nowhere white trash who struggle desperately to climb out of the muck and back into civilized society. |
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| I had the attacks several times a month and tried desperately to prevent them by keeping to myself and avoiding any social situations. |
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| Francesca nodded slowly, trying desperately to keep the laughter from her voice. |
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| We desperately need age, experience and character on the backbenches of our parliament. |
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| In rows of kennels, dogs awaiting adoption wag their tails furiously, bark in a deafening chorus and whine desperately for attention. |
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| Catherine's hand struggled desperately to move, trying to release the increasing pressure on her throat. |
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| He's also a mass of contradictions, desperately playing up to more successful ex-schoolmates and then verbally and physically assaulting them. |
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| There were long queues, which caused traffic chaos, outside filling stations today as motorists desperately tried to fill their tanks. |
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| It will also have turned up the heat on manager Alex McLeish, who is still desperately seeking a left-back and a centre-half. |
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| But whatever the insouciant stage persona said, underneath Smith desperately wanted approval. |
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| We desperately need a culture that values teamwork at all grades in the profession. |
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| In media that portray women largely as victims or pin-ups, we desperately need stories of ordinary Bangladeshi women who have beaten the odds. |
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| Hernandez confessed to the police that he concocted the entire story as he desperately needs money to support his pregnant girlfriend. |
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| She looked around, desperately trying to breathe in the fresh scent of the piney woods. |
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| Not only was this a festive celebration, but I wanted so desperately to impress Zeek. |
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| Bitterly, I stomped and paced around the small room, desperately thinking of ways to get out of the hole I'd dug myself into. |
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| We tried desperately to obtain such an electoral pact with the Greens before the election, but we were rebuffed on every occasion. |
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| The man who desperately needs to make a change in his life is now counting the days until he's finally free. |
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| She had tried desperately to be angry with William Ingalls, but all she wanted to do was die. |
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| Scaring the killer off, he desperately attempts the kiss of life on the hopeless victim until relieved by police. |
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| His free hand scrabbled desperately around, and he began clawing at his attacker. |
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| He threw himself back in suffocating agony and began to claw desperately at his throat. |
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| So far, dozens of homes have been destroyed and firefighters are desperately trying to work to get a handle on this situation. |
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| Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. |
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| At the beginning the protagonist is on his death bed, trying desperately to find some coherence to his fragmented life. |
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| Carnacon didn't know what hit them as they tried desperately to protect their goal from a barrage of attacks. |
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| But beneath the smile, the elegantly coiffed hair and the expensive Harvey Nichols clothes she was desperately unhappy. |
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| He said his horse Rusty was spot on but his hazer played a large role in the overall success in a run he desperately needed to have. |
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| But the worst consequence may be the denial of life itself to children who are desperately wanted by infertile couples. |
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| Neither can we share fellowship nor even receive desperately needed resources. |
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| He desperately looked over at the two girls for help, and found that, amazingly, they were both still fighting wrathfully. |
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| After the war, when tankers were in desperately short supply, attempts were made to refloat this one. |
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| Rather than desperately beating the bushes for MBAs, by the 1990s, US firms were swamped with them. |
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| Not even the freezing mountain-water shower can refresh me and I crash into my sleeping bag, desperately craving a full night's rest. |
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| Lesley now feels her search has hit a brick wall and would desperately like help or advice on how to take it further. |
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| I desperately tried to hold my breath, to stay stock-still and make as little noise as I could. |
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| Marshall gives an incandescent performance vocally and dramatically as a woman desperately trying to hold on to her sanity in a world gone mad. |
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| We desperately want to see him home again, but we are steeling ourselves for the worst. |
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| Four were carrying a large white-swathed bundle, while the other four desperately attempted to staunch the flow of blood from various wounds. |
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| He forced his body into as much of a relaxed state as he could manage, desperately trying not to think at all, not to feel. |
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| Survivors pushed handcarts carrying their injured relatives, desperately seeking medical help. |
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| At the time he was desperately trying to pay of debts he had built up through his drug addiction using heroin and crack cocaine. |
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| With less than 3 percent of its land farmable and little industry, Chad is a desperately poor country. |
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| I desperately didn't want to believe there had been a campaign, and denied it to myself even when the evidence was staring me in the face. |
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| It's more that it makes me uncomfortable when we give these glory-seeking nuts the kind of attention they so desperately crave. |
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| I tried to keep my face a mask a perfect impassiveness, as he always did, but I knew I looked desperately hopeful. |
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| You desperately want to stop for a half-caf non-fat no-whip mocha and a muffin, but you're off carbs until at least Saturday. |
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| A bury optometrist has helped to safeguard the sight of many desperately poor Ugandans during a vital mercy mission with Vision Aid Overseas. |
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| But it is desperately in need of re-decoration and she now faces a battle against time and a shortage of money to make it habitable. |
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| In such times, we cling desperately to the life raft of the First Amendment, yet we must also remain aware of its leaks and holes. |
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| They desperately crave scientific respectability, but it is their own theory that prevents them from attaining it. |
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| She tugged desperately at her restraints as memory came flooding back, but the chains seemed to be unbreakable. |
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| The average foreigner is a tortured soul, trying desperately to discern any logic in the squirms and squiggles of an Indian road map. |
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| The spendthrift ways of provincial governments have made international lending agencies reticent to loan desperately needed cash. |
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| United desperately need to win at the Riverside Stadium to maintain their faint hopes of clawing their way back into the title race. |
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| But his works are also imbued with social commentary, desperately wanting to make the world a better place. |
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| It was ill-looking and its eyes looked bloodshot but it kept on desperately digging. |
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| Thus the recent run of Irish victories ended and last year's desperately disappointing draw gloriously revenged. |
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| The thinner air tricks your body into thinking it is suffocating, and so you wake up periodically gasping desperately for breath. |
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| Today, we desperately need to revive interest in and respect for the environment. |
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| McTeirnan was desperately unlucky with the conversion with the ball fading to the right and wide from a difficult angle. |
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| They were still in the city centre and at this time of the evening every building looked empty and dead to Alexa's desperately searching eyes. |
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| Emergency workers are desperately trying to fix the broken levees in New Orleans tonight. |
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| Turvey desperately needs more funding if he is to complete the season with Team SWR, a chance he richly deserves. |
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| Today, she is desperately fighting for her life in hospital and a bone marrow transplant is the only thing that could cure her. |
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| From the nature of her injuries, it was apparent that Jodi had fought desperately for her life. |
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| So the little girl whose mother wanted so desperately to be rid of her will likely have a good and safe family life after all. |
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| Forgive me for being facetious in these desperately serious times, but sometimes ridicule is the only release from anger. |
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| The tigers paced desperately and the gorillas and chimps seemed listless and apathetic. |
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| And, like so many women after the war, she was desperately keen to start a family. |
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| I desperately tried to remember what had happened last night and suddenly, it fell upon me like a ton of bricks. |
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| Teenage girls were spotted around the village peeping through windows of some of the biggest homes, desperately hoping for a glance of Gareth. |
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| As the delinquent desperately struggles to test set boundaries, so does the apostate or apostatizing church. |
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| On Saturday night, after the match, they tried desperately to be invisible as the riotous celebration party began. |
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| Germany is Europe's biggest economy and desperately needs a venue for risk capital. |
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| There was never any good reason to believe that voucherizing Medicare would be anything but desperately unpopular. |
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| I cannot stand mopey teaheads desperately trying to mooch pot in the morning. |
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| Marty flails about on stage for a while, desperately trying to drum up some enthusiasm and energy for what is a dull, dry performance. |
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| Once the questions mount, experts said, insurgents desperately need prominent party officials to send a cue to voters by vouching for them. |
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| Aquila roared out in agony as he desperately tried to steer his beloved vessel. |
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| He desperately needs support, but the Newcastle manager has promised at least three new signings by the end of August. |
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| Its government desperately needs such a system of accountability to stem the arbitrariness, corruption, and cronyism. |
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| It tries desperately to be a comedy, a romance, a drama, and a musical all rolled into one. |
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| I watched their faces and wished, desperately and irrationally, that these boys would understand. |
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| However, we still have lots of animals who desperately need loving homes, particularly rabbits, hamsters, gerbils, hens, even cockerels. |
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| She yelped a bit from the sudden take off, grabbing desperately at his shirt. |
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| It's been a long and very busy week, and the week ahead looks about the same, and I desperately need to wind down. |
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| It came from all sides, asphyxiating him, robbing him of the peace of mind he so desperately craved. |
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| One of the things I want to do is give this site a desperately needed spring-clean. |
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| He provides her with the closeness she desperately needs, and she finds someone to care for. |
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| Jolting along the river-bed-turned-road, I hoped desperately for no rain, realizing that even a shower in Uganda could bury us in mud. |
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| Rivers are desperately low, but given a healthy lift, things could become most interesting over the coming weeks. |
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| Information gained by Bedfordshire on Sunday has revealed that the service is already running desperately low on crews. |
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| In Canterbury there are a number of roads that are desperately needed to unclog the rush hour traffic. |
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| I clung onto bits of ice and tried desperately to remove the harness attaching me to the sledge. |
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| Is housing in such desperately short supply that a historic building must be sacrificed for the sake of five flats? |
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| Wasn't his perception of happiness and how to attain it desperately marred? |
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| One of the world's biggest investment banks desperately wants in, and recently lunched the Senator. |
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| I groped for the gear stick, sobbing desperately as the car lurched forward. |
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| Veil desperately tried to leap out, but a big clod of earth landed on his head. |
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| A bullfight now is sheer spectacle and, with six bulls dying in less than two hours, a desperately cruel one at that. |
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| She desperately wanted to rest, avoid the salacious Tinseltown gossip, and take control of her life. |
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| It's desperately sad that his parents never knew what became of their artful dodger. |
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| He knew I was a musician and they desperately needed somebody to put music to lyrics. |
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| When traveling in heavy rush hour traffic I mentally tag a few cars desperately tailgating and weaving. |
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| And all that's left is an early director's cut of a promising movie that desperately needs editing. |
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| Terry rails against Jack's indifference and desperately tries to salvage some kind of relationship from the tangled chaos. |
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| I averted my eyes from the television, trying desperately to distract myself. |
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| It depicts a construction worker hanging desperately from a steel girder on a building site. |
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| I still don't know if he was making the whole thing up or not, but it's the kind of story you desperately want to be true. |
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| Certainly a Britain desperately in need of Chinese sovereign wealth funds will not object too aggressively. |
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| Magicians and sorcerers of every kind were desperately trying to control the magical outbreak but to no avail. |
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| He was yelling and crying, reaching out desperately and uselessly past the restraining arms in a vain attempt to bring his friend back. |
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| No matter how desperately governments try to create jobs by fancy make-work schemes, unemployment becomes chronic. |
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| Could I genuinely add anything of note without coming across as another desperately backcombed fanboy? |
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| The program isn't desperately user-friendly but it's easier to use than it initially looks. |
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| As this is going on, the angry men are desperately trying to play a full set of marching band wind instruments. |
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| It's an odd performance as well, desperately mannered at times but in the moments that count absolutely rock solid. |
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| He raised his eyes to the heavens, clinging desperately to the only remaining physical reminder of his past life. |
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| All the fish of these jungle rivers demonstrate a desperately tenacious grip on life. |
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| In trying to stave off this fate of being dated, he has clung desperately to remaining youthful. |
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| In short, the minnow's biological proficiency does little to foster its survival in the modified world to which this fish desperately clings. |
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| Chinese companies attempting to break into overseas markets are desperately trying to buy or build global brands. |
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| They remember being kept desperately hungry all the time, as part of a ploy to break their spirits. |
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| Giles tugged desperately at the manacles, his fingers scrabbling upward against the chain dangling them from the ceiling. |
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| A couple gave him an odd look at the sagging clothes that clung desperately to his drenched body. |
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| They scrabbled desperately at the rubble with their bear hands for signs of life. |
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| The miniscule scraps of wet fabric clung desperately to her as she stepped onto the deck. |
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| Livingston were under the cosh, scrambling the ball clear twice in injury time, but held on desperately for points. |
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| The team desperately needs defensive playmakers and would love to find a ballhawking cornerback. |
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| Indeed, an evenly divided Congress could provide the healing balm the country desperately needs. |
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| They were desperately looking for any clue that would help them break the code. |
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| Soon the maids were swarming around the breach in the wall as bees desperately trying to protect its beehive. |
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| The end result is that the leadership is desperately trying to stop a debate that was never really going to start. |
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| He looked around quickly and desperately began banging his head against the nearest wall. |
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| Wilson's essay is desperately keen to convey her theoretical vision of the world. |
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| They desperately want to hustle him out of the lake and into the warmth of their waiting ambulance. |
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| She said that she had been driving around for over two hours desperately searching for another way to get home. |
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| Thinking that morning in the garden had gotten me no where and I was still searching desperately for some answers. |
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| She desperately wanted to forgive him and stop him from going, but her pride got in the way. |
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| Helen has the material things many would envy, but she is desperately trying to break free. |
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| India was desperately hungry for international cricket in those days, but foreign teams were not keen to come here. |
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| He found that soldiers and sailors, when driven by extreme thirst, would drink sea water, or their urine, both of which were desperately harmful. |
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| Obviously, he's hiding in the Spurs trophy room, a desperately barren place where no man ever goes. |
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| His exploits might have brought tears to many secularists looking desperately to reaffirm their faith in a pluralist society. |
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| They were desperately trying to generate support and sympathy among people who hadn't formed an opinion on foxhunting. |
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| Cricket attendances are in decline and the sport is thrashing around desperately for a solution. |
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| In our accelerated world of time, we seek desperately to harness whatever we can and try even harder to use it sedulously. |
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| The lead character, Chip, struggles desperately to find a way to circumvent the terrible boredom and meaninglessness of existence. |
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| I cast my eyes down and begin desperately forking the salad. |
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| Geneva was beginning to faint from lack of oxygen, and when he let go of her, she fell to the floor, desperately trying to see who was fighting the men to save her. |
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| For all his technocratic brilliance, however, Gamal desperately lacks any hint of a common touch. |
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| Sometimes this amounts to nothing more than pressuring friends into listening to a song we desperately love. |
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| Grunwald amusingly describes how he finally desperately put his request to the president at a White House Christmas party. |
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| In the sixth episode of the BBC comedy series, basil Fawlty is desperately trying to serve dinner to a party of German guests. |
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| He was told that he was a carpetbagger, but he desperately wanted to serve the people, as I do. |
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| He tried desperately to save her but the blood just stopped. |
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| Outside, the once splendid Nevski Prospekt is in need of a lick of paint and seems to be trying desperately to become European, but its people are grey and wan. |
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| Other bands might get away with this on intensity alone, but Harcourt's straightforward, predictable manner leaves his wan material desperately lacking. |
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| One of them was a rather harassed young woman who was desperately trying to appease her toddler with a Jaffa cake as she paid for her three bags of shopping. |
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| It brings to mind one of those nature documentaries, where the wounded water buffalo desperately tries to fend off the hyenas circling in for the kill. |
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| He quests for a trophy to call his own, hoping the Kartoon King ice cream contest might gain him the conspicuous congratulations he so desperately requires. |
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| However, there was no sign of desperately needed rain and a westerly roared in from Australia's arid outback, fanning flames and scattering red hot embers to start new blazes. |
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| She recalled flailing in the water, desperately trying to keep afloat and barely aware of the screams and chaos around her when she heard the voice offering help. |
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| It's desperately unfashionable to like country music but I get a warm glow inside when I know that Emmylou doesn't share her charms with everyone. |
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| The Bears' fielding and wicketkeeping have always held their own in the SuperSport series, but Border desperately need big scores to complement their fine bowling attack. |
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| In the US the realisation seems to be dawning that this episode represents, at the very least, a case of maladministration, of desperately poor governance. |
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| Forty days is the mourning period and he was working on that last, agonizing, poignant day because he too needed the money so desperately for his remaining small family. |
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| All the sunflowers that were planted last summer were brown, wild shrubs grew abundantly, and weeds consumed the few lilies that were trying desperately to live. |
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| Pro-pipeline Democrats, meanwhile, appeared to be searching desperately for ways to turn a crushing defeat into a moral victory. |
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| Turning my attention back to the room I've found myself in, my tired mind desperately tries to reason things out, coming up fairly short in the process. |
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| I smoothed a rebellious hair into place and turned to walk out of my room, desperately hoping that the dinner I was about to go to was a pleasant one. |
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| That defection sparked a massive political crisis the party has desperately wanted to resolve before the leadership transition. |
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| I remember a time, soon after we moved to the compound, when I was delirious with fever and desperately wanted her by my side. |
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| She seemed to create her own world and you desperately wanted to be part of it. |
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| Next, he took his efforts to the desperately poor, hungry regions of India and Pakistan. |
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| The McCanns say they are desperately worried about the safety of their nine-year old twins who are often subjects of online abuse. |
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| In four years he had gone from nobody to totemic figure, each new direction he took wrong-footing fans who were desperately trying to keep pace with him. |
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| And Rose is desperately appealing to all registrars to skip their day off and allow the couple, who have been together for six years, to get married. |
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| Moreover, they are impeding humanitarian access to something approaching one million people who are languishing in camps desperately short of food and medicine. |
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| Imagine looking desperately for adrenaline while treating a patient with a cardiac arrest, finding an ampoule labelled ephedrine, and mistaking it for epinephrine. |
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| Eros, the life force, desperately trying to find a foothold in the arid landscape of Ordinary Life. |
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| As Errol spirals into madness, his brother desperately tries to rescue him from himself in a story whose suspense is dark. |
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| Thus his love of escapist, desperately lighthearted writers like Laurence Sterne and Miguel de Cervantes. |
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| Newspapers around the world showed the picture above of the Paraguayan policeman trying desperately to revive the baby he rescued from the smouldering supermarket. |
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| To be fair, he told me that he would kill me while he throttled my neck, and once I broke free I tried desperately to fight back. |
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| Events become increasingly chaotic as Ellwood desperately tries to seal his deal while simultaneously keeping the suspicious sergeant at arm's length. |
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| Though Nguyen Van Thieu still had over a million men under arms, his forces collapsed in panic, with soldiers trying desperately to reach any port to escape. |
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| They are the ones with arms arrow-straight in the air for the full 60 minutes, desperately seeking an outlet for the moral certitude that will otherwise consume them. |
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| I've tried desperately to avoid kvetching about my roommate here, just in case she ever runs across the site, but last night sent me over the edge. |
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| As a safety valve for parents who desperately need alternatives to schools in catastrophic condition, vouchers may work as a short-term balm, and as a prod to reform. |
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| It is impossible to hate, like the earnest child in a schoolroom who desperately wants to understand long division, but just can't master the logic. |
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| So they desperately start bailing water to keep the ship afloat. |
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| He had waded too far into the murky ocean that was her personal life, and was desperately searching for a lifeboat or rescue helicopter to bail him out. |
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| Flinging open a cupboard and desperately scrabbling for some anti-inflammatory cream, I curse myself for positioning it in the most difficult to reach area of the top shelf. |
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