Sentence examples for desperate importance from inspiring English sources

It's a subject that was of desperate importance to him at the time, because his marriage to the actress Anna Karina was breaking up.

Azinger has named all six of his players with Ryder Cup experience in the foursomes, understanding the desperate importance of the US at least retaining parity by lunchtime.

The rise of political violence in our country only underscores the desperate importance, at this moment, of cultivating citizens who face political conflict through open discourse rather than repression or aggression.

However periodic their presence, the fact that they come at all is a matter of desperate importance to the Somalis, a sign that they belong to the larger world, and that the larger world knows they exist.

In what remains a matter of sometimes desperate importance to New York car owners, he developed, while serving as sanitation commissioner, the city's system of alternate-side parking, which requires that cars be moved out of the way of street cleaners on one side of the street on specific days.

After all, in the words of Zuhur Ahmed, a woman in her 20s who used to host a Minneapolis radio show called Somali Community Link, the motives for joining a street gang and for signing on as a jihadi can be similar — typically, an alienated boy's desperate yearning for identity and importance.

How is that so many still do not understand how desperate things are with our economy and the importance of the American auto industry in that economy?

You have the Bush administration advocating debt relief and offering a little more money for the most desperate countries; you have Oxfam talking about the importance of lowering trade barriers as part of the war on misery.

His pseudo-militaristic rhetoric is calculated to appeal to angry young men, desperate to feel a sense of inclusion and importance.

Major public gatherings are cramped, near-desperate attempts to watch staged spectacles of minor importance: the dropping of the New Year's ball in Times Square or the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.

At the time there was a desperate need for a psychological explanation of the practical importance of human rights.