Some hold that Byron's dog went mad in sympathy with Byron; others that Nero was driven to desperate melancholy by associating with Mr Carlyle.
But if it doesn't, Mr Moi may be driven to desperate measures.In the run-up to the last two elections, perhaps 2,000 people were killed in ethnic clashes stirred up by Mr Moi's pals.
In 1895 a postman called Charles Owen Martin was driven to desperate means to try to obtain a beard: he stole a postal order, and spent it on a patent lotion guaranteed to produce "a pair of captivating, fascinating whiskers".
He wrote in his 1879 Bathurst letter: I tell you that highway robbery is only in its infancy for the white population is been driven out of the labour market by an inundation of Mongolians and when the white man is driven to desperation there will be desperate times.
The Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, the co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on medical cannabis under prescription, said: "That a mother of such a sick child as this has been driven to take these desperate measures is a damning indictment of how this policy has been implemented.
Like several other witnesses, and notably his chum James Murdoch, Hunt has been driven to absurdity by the desperate need to open up a space between the two most plausible interpretations of his conduct: that he is a scoundrel and that he is a fool.
So vexing has the problem of consciousness proved that some of these thinkers have been driven to a hypothesis that sounds desperate, if not downright crazy.
This turns out to be a play about outsiders transfixed and skewered by the United States, who are driven to a desperate game.
As Iceland ran, three on one, to the winning goal, the announcer, Guðmundur Benediktsson, was driven to a desperate, orgasmic, inarticulate siren of excitement, now legendary on the Internet, and never to be forgotten by anyone who heard it live.
"By move 24 Gheorghiu was so tied up that he was driven to the desperate pawn sacrifice 24...g5, in vain hope that he could organize some sort of counterattack on the white king".
