Sentence examples for desperate case from inspiring English sources

If a rating falls any lower, bonds are considered to be below investment grade, and so will be shunned by some of the world's biggest investment institutions.Britain's BT, with £30 billion ($43 billion) of debts, has become another desperate case.

Or Jamilla, who quit her job in the kitchen to go on welfare, an unmarried mother raising her children alone, a classic desperate case — until she completed her G.E.D. and worked her way through culinary school.

"Do you think for a minute that those multinationals would invest here if they thought that India was a desperate case?" India may have cause concern after a period of euphoria, but "our problem is that we spend our time criticising ourselves.

That happened to one office worker who inadvertently sent a message to 200 colleagues calling his boss a "desperate case".

It's weird because he's usually great company but that night it looked like a desperate case of everybody-look-at-me syndrome at a party where he wasn't the centre of attention.

He's my favorite saint, patron of desperate cases.

I'd light candles to Saint Anthony, the patron saint for desperate cases like me.

But Plan International is seeking especially desperate cases, and the Mutulus qualify.

In all such cases, the use of force should be the very last resort.And yet a strong moral case remains for forceful outside intervention in desperate cases.

Some judges even had special "Father Bob Days" on their calendar when they would schedule the most desperate cases for him to pick up.

The Legal Aid Agency's much criticised exceptional funding scheme, which is supposed to provide a safety net for applicants in desperate cases, will also be overhauled, Labour vows.