Sentence examples for desperate idea from inspiring English sources

Labour's latest, rather desperate, idea is to lower the voting age to 16.

He racked his brain and came up with a desperate idea: pay women to have babies.

How in the world could someone even come up with such a desperate idea?

As for the even more desperate idea of "talking to the local Taliban", what do you say to a tiger in mid-leap?

Over the last month, The Times has published many articles on a possible baseball strike this year, but the suggestion by Murray Chass to have Commissioner Bud Selig cancel the rest of this season to save the World Series ("How to Save the World Series," July 16) is certainly the most desperate idea so far.

Some of their fixes are designed to compel "the parties" to look beyond their hard-core ideological bases by broadening voter participation via innovations like weekend voting, automatic registration, and (a clever if desperate idea) "a lottery — an election Powerball with a large prize, in which a person gets a ticket in exchange for a voting receipt".

Well, I think most people can count beyond one," he scoffs, with a hint of the indignation shown when, as Tony Hayers, he rejected Alan Partridge's desperate ideas for TV shows.

6 12 Cohn 13 noted that 'physician-relations issues provoke not only practical but also desperate ideas from healthcare executives.' Rifts among these groups have negative impacts on quality. 1 Patient care in ICUs suffers when there are differences in nurses' and physicians' knowledge bases.

He turned to those materials when he was distraught and desperate for ideas.

The e-mails also describe fairly desperate financing ideas as the company's position worsened, including borrowing money at 12 percent interest.

A public desperate for ideas about economic revival heard an astonishing argument about whether Social Security is a hoax, along with a fight about which states were more effective in luring low-wage jobs from other states.