Sentence examples for a desperate step from inspiring English sources

The massive bailout mechanism agreed Sunday night by EU finance ministers is a desperate step.

The emergency flooding of stricken reactors with seawater and the resulting steam releases are a desperate step intended to avoid a much bigger problem: a full meltdown of the nuclear cores in reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.

It was a desperate measure, for a desperate disease.

It was a desperate measure for desperate times.

The request came at a time when Con Ed was taking the desperate step of running power cables along surface streets to bypass a substation damaged by the collapse of the Trade Center buildings.

Hiring a personal trainer seems just the next desperate step along the path of conformity.

The most desperate step of all and one that, if you related to this article at all, should probably consider.

It is just the latest in a series of desperate steps policy-makers have considered to keep federal transportation funding flowing.

She will point to a "serious and growing problem" of immigrants taking increasingly desperate steps to get to the UK from Calais, including "awful cases of young men camping by the roadside then leaping onto the wheel arches of passing lorries, only to be crushed and killed".

A1 Argentina's Desperate Steps Argentina, which is on the brink of a total default on $132 billion of public sector debt, announced it had limited cash withdrawals from banks and taken a step toward adopting the dollar as Argentina's currency in a desperate effort to avert a run on banks and a chaotic devaluation.

The reorganization of the National Guard was begun by the cabinet in August 1889, and the creation of a rival militia caused the dissidents among the officer corps to consider desperate steps.