Sentence examples for a desperate scramble for from inspiring English sources

The congestion beneath, in a desperate scramble for safety, is threatening to engulf them.

Only if they are incalculable will they try to take their chips off the table altogether, in a desperate scramble for cash (or near-cash).

And being outside the Customs Union would mean masses of new red tape, a desperate scramble for trade agreements and the re-emergence of a border in Ireland.

As students find out today whether they have achieved their predicted grades, it will trigger a desperate scramble for places in clearing.

Electronics industries have been affected, particularly camera manufacturers, leading to a desperate scramble for raw materials that has even included buying tons of obscure rare earth compounds from corporate stockpiles in Europe and airlifting them to Japan.

Because male pornography stars have never earned the big money that rock stars make, he never achieved the financial independence of a mainstream celebrity, and his last years were a desperate scramble for money to feed his drug habit.

But with Sweden expecting as many as 190,000 refugees to arrive this year alone – by far the highest number in Europe relative to the country's population – there is a desperate scramble to find accommodation for around 10,000 new arrivals every week.

GENEVA — Syria's conflict is now driving 5,000 people out of the country each day in an increasingly desperate scramble for safety, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday as it reported a surge in their numbers to nearly 800,000.

It was an eccentric own goal, ensuring a blistering and tense finale and, for United, it was a desperate scramble at times to hold on.

Tyree's 32-yard catch of Eli Manning's pass from a desperate scramble set up a touchdown to beat the New England Patriots for the franchise's third Super Bowl.

"The filmmakers' evident affection for the book expresses itself as a desperate scramble to include as much of it as possible, which leaves the movie feeling both overcrowded and thin," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in December.