Sentence examples for days of desperate from inspiring English sources

Gordon Brown, in these days of desperate need, could learn something from him.

Janet and John Stocker's deaths were announced by their family on Tuesday following days of desperate appeals for information.

After 15 days of desperate fighting (the Battle of the Yser), the Nieuwpoort sluices were flooded and checked the Germans; the Allies then succeeded in establishing themselves in an impregnable position on the river's left bank.

Once the move was confirmed, 13 days of desperate maneuver and decision ensued.

It took Callahan 10 days of desperate trial and error to finally jury-rig a patch using a fork and some fishing line.

I shudder to think what ill behavior will be on display in the final ten days of a desperate campaign that looks like it is sinking further into the mud.

The World Series between the Mets and the Yankees, the first Subway Series since 1956, gets under way tonight at Yankee Stadium after days of anticipation and desperate searches for tickets.

For many of us – myself included some days – the desperate state of our environment leaves us numb with sadness and, frankly, lost in hopelessness.

"After 18 years, we are witnessing the final desperate days of Al D'Amato.

Arguably the most troubling since the desperate days of 1997 when the then Co-operative Wholesale Society fought off a city-hatched plan to demutualise it.

On the less desperate days of the first Palestinian uprising, fifteen years ago, the rules of theatrical engagement were well understood.