Sentence examples for desperate intervention from inspiring English sources

His knock-downs created a half-chance for Taylor and forced right-back Kelvin Mellor into a desperate intervention in front of goal.

One who might turn up in the middle of the night, when wind howls around an unhappy house, and everyone in it needs some desperate intervention.

Leahy rifled another shot over from distance, while Loy looked certain to score when the ball was worked to him inside the area, but with a clear sight of goal his effort was blocked by a desperate intervention near the goal-line by Stevie Smith.

"I couldn't help myself, I had made something so generically perfect that it required a desperate intervention," Helvie says.

Last Thursday, a desperate intervention by Catholic leaders prevented further armed attacks in Masaya, an opposition stronghold that has endured some of the government's fiercest attacks.

Despite the increasingly desperate interventions of several friends, I continue to wear the black-velvet, zebra-print Betsey Johnson two-piece ensemble I got for my best friend's bat mitzvah in 1997.

Desperate for intervention from the United States, citizens stacked the dead in front of the US Embassy.

Müller was only stopped from racing clear by a desperate last-ditch intervention by Rijsbergen.

Jessica Hatcher talks to opponents in the capital Bujumbura, desperate for UN intervention after the brutal deaths of hundreds.

The attacks on Mr. Conroy came amid repeated efforts to undermine the credibility of a British-Syrian activist, Danny Abdel Dayem, whose reports from Homs, narrated in English, featured desperate pleas for intervention by other countries.

Explain that to a child quietly desperate for adult intervention.