Sentence examples for desperate approach from inspiring English sources

With little evidence of a co-ordinated approach to the problem from a non-existent central authority in distant Tripoli, the local official showed me the new, desperate, approach to containing the crisis.

With the boat immobilized, the trio attempt a desperate approach: Hooper dons scuba gear and enters the ocean inside a shark proof cage, attempting to stab the shark with a hypodermic spear filled with strychnine.

Slashing rates well below zero to make it painful not to spend money is the desperate approach to avoiding an economic depression recently endorsed by Larry Summers, President Obama's former top economic advisor and one-time pick to run the Federal Reserve.

As the impacts of climate change become more apparent in the coming decades and people become increasingly desperate, violent approaches like guerrilla warfare, armed seizures of resources, targeted assassinations, and bombings, will become necessary tactics in the pursuit of any political revolt.

The desperate refugees approaching the European Union by land and sea are a problem for the EU as a whole.

When the scandal of systematic miscarriages of justice involving innocent Irishmen and women was at its height in the 1980s, desperate families approached senior members of the Labour opposition for help in reopening the cases.

Mary Anne Wold, a 50-year-old high school teacher, said the idea was a desperate, quick-fix approach by school officials whose priorities are out of kilter.

Ms. Haber has been known to make house calls to nursing homes, and she makes sure to carry panty hose in her trunk for the desperate customers who approach her on the street.

"This would have been a desperate act: the approach is difficult and the area was the setting for five shipwrecks," NOAA said in describing the find.

How to cope with the desperate asylum-seekers approaching Australia in rickety vessels?

"They have tried to get me to take them," she said, noting the pleas have become more desperate as May 15 approached.