Sentence examples for desperate fate from inspiring English sources

For too long, the world has been indifferent to suffering in CAR, its people abandoned to a desperate fate.

Others like the by-election held yesterday in the South Yorkshire seat of Barnsley Central offer something much less definite: a hint, at most, that the weather may be about to change.The headlines this morning focus on the desperate fate of the Liberal Democrats, who fell from second place at the May 2010 election to sixth place (losing their deposit last night into the bargain).

You are directly responsible for the desperate fate of millions of people about to undergo unimaginable hardship, while you talk cavalierly of moving to Canada or Europe.

Brown's characters are different from Uncle Tom, Eliza, and Topsy, but they're no less didactic, and his novel, like Stowe's, follows their desperate fates, trial heaped upon tribulation, like so many ice floes crashing into the banks of the Mississippi.

And when the barrage lifts and the whistles blow for the attack to begin and they leave the shelter of the trench to walk across the dense, untended meadows of the Somme valley, we should feel that we have come to know them -- and the messy, desperate fates awaiting these particular young men would stand as symbols for the grotesque and enormous massacre that actually took place.

This rather desperate, corny fate business reminds us of that fact, and counterbalances the crushing beauty of the rest of the book.

Time after time, fate placed him in the most desperate circumstances.

New Zealand is desperate to avoid the fate of neighboring Australia.