Sentence examples for desperate diseases from inspiring English sources

In response, my mentors argued that "desperate diseases require desperate measures".

Its long-suffering people are too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars, afflicted in their millions with AIDS and other desperate diseases, preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies from obtaining basic schooling, medical attention and access to economic opportunity.

It was a desperate measure, for a desperate disease.

There is desperate poverty, disease and hunger, compounded by other scourges that limit opportunities for Africans to improve their lives: political instability, deficient education systems and in some cases longstanding military conflict.

"Usher syndrome is a desperate, miserable disease," says human geneticist Paul Sieving of the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.

There's no doubt that Thackery and his staff do good every day, but they're working in a poor neighborhood full of desperate immigrants; disease and death remain overwhelming realities, and the staff's victories are drops in a bloody bucket.

As flood waters recede people are able to see the full extent of the damage, the homes that have been wiped out and the desperate stories of diseases being spread as clean water supplies become contaminated.

Desperate people with incurable diseases are beseeching the company for treatments, though none will be ready for years if ever.