If addiction were a random event, there would be no logic to it, no desperate reason to keep going back to the bottle or needle, no reason to avoid treatment.
It's day two of my trip around Pas de Calais, a region that has been in the headlines for desperate reasons recently.
But with more than 70,000 dead the lack of clear "red lines" gives a desperate Assad little reason not to lash out further.
For whatever mysterious inner reasons – a desperate neediness that makes him grab anything he's given?
In her confused state, the 22-year-old Schleper was in a desperate search for the reasons behind her slow start.
Hmm. Brad DeLong finds Niall Ferguson touting a paper by William White (pdf) that I read as a desperate attempt to find some reason why we should be raising interest rates despite a deeply depressed economy and an absence of obvious inflationary pressure.
At one juncture, for no good reason other than a desperate injection of suspense, Bones descends to a "planetoid," in the company of an implausible weapons expert (Alice Eve), just to inspect a torpedo.
To a party desperate for reasons to be cheerful, it offered one.
The suggestion that all this was somehow manufactured for reasons of personal vengeance is a desperate and unsustainable argument".
It's a desperate situation".
