Sentence examples for desperate argument from inspiring English sources
These are desperate times for the government and I expected a desperate argument from George Osborne last week.
But Wiliams' place atop that leaderboard – the last, desperate argument against her undisputed supremacy – seems predestined, given her current form.
To suppose that the dating of the canon is totally out of whack and that all the plays and poems were written before 1604 is a desperate argument.
But Karen Seymour, in her rebuttal summation, came up with the obvious rejoinder to Morvillo's desperate argument: "Smart people committing stupid crimes or doing stupid things, your common sense tells you that that's what white-collar criminals do every day".
And yet as this presumption evolves into fact, Mrs. Clinton insists on making a final desperate argument why she is the candidate who can win in November by blatantly citing her unique ability to attract hard-working white Americans.
While a judge in a U.S. court might toss out such a desperate argument, TransCanada is not taking its case to a court, but to a trade tribunal not accountable to any domestic legal system.
All knew without needing to be told that if the Burmese military were held to be illegitimate rulers whose wishes could be overruled because they lacked a democratic mandate, the same criteria could be used against them or their allies, too, and their desperate arguments reflected their fears.
Focusing on the fact that Australia's actual greenhouse emissions are set to increase by 2020 is "one of the oddest and strangest and I've got to say... desperate arguments", says the environment minister, Greg Hunt, because under internationally accepted accounting rules Australia is allowed to claim a 5% decrease.
Hunt described the idea that the government should consider actual emissions rather than achieving a target via accounting rules as "one of the oddest and strangest and I've got to say... desperate arguments" he had heard, and pointed out that the accounting rules had been accepted internationally and by successive Australian governments.
Hunt described the idea that we should consider actual emissions as "one of the oddest and strangest and I've got to say... desperate arguments" he had heard, and pointed out that the accounting rules had been accepted internationally and by successive Australian governments.
Desperate situations make for desperate arguments, but desperate arguments are rarely winners.
