Sentence examples for Desperate measure from inspiring English sources

"It's a pretty desperate measure," he said.

"It's a rather desperate measure," admits a well-placed southerner.

But it is something of a desperate measure.

It was a desperate measure, for a desperate disease.

It was a desperate measure for desperate times.

The desperate measure, which angered pharmaceuticals companies, paid off.

Inside the emergency room John decides on a desperate measure.

So he does one last desperate measure literally to prevent the army from entirely disappearing.

"It is a desperate measure," said Ikram Sehgal, a defense analyst and a former army officer.

But isn't it more of a foolishly desperate measure than a long-term solution?

"We are doing it as a desperate measure to try to prevent people from dying".