Sentence examples for a desperate year from inspiring English sources

To have made no gains would have been disastrous, since they last fought these seats in 1995, a desperate year for the party.

Loss before tax £30.4m Net debt £36m Interest payable Nil Accounts for the year to 31 May 2013 State they're in A desperate year.

In the same year, the parts for his projected steamboat were ready for shipment to the United States, but Fulton spent a desperate year attempting to collect money he felt the British owed him.

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On the other side of the city, in a state-run orphanage for 12- to 18-year-olds, a desperate 17-year-old Mustafa is terrified about his own future.

The chamber adamantly denies that foreign funds are used in its U.S. election efforts, accusing Democrats of orchestrating a speculative smear campaign during a desperate political year.

In the same desperate year preceding his big bankruptcy, Ronnie also fell for the egregious Mr. Flynn.

In the desperate year of 1934, word spread through West Virginia's relief offices of another federal "subsistence homesteading" project.

Once she started writing, she was surprised how quickly the memories of that desperate year – in which she eventually sought treatment for her depression – surged back.

Ms. Reeser, an alum of "The O.C.," makes her character as seductive and brittle as a desperate 40-year-old: call her Cruella de Mall.

Tired of being poor, a desperate 17-year-old Belgian girl (Emilie Dequenne) is determined to land work at any cost.