Sentence examples for desperate means from inspiring English sources

Young people are turning to desperate means to make ends meet.

Four million women now living under Daesh rule, most trying to escape through one desperate means or another.

Around the nation, cities and towns facing grim budget circumstances are grasping at unlikely — some would say desperate — means to bolster their shrunken tax bases.

In a diner in Manchester, N.H., a Clinton backer eager for an 11th hour presidential signature resorted to desperate means to secure something for him to sign.

But being the weaker side, as more than one contributor to this book shows, does not mean that all suicide missions are a desperate means of self-defence.

That isn't a defence of benefit fraud, but people in desperate circumstances often turn to desperate means – often for the most human of reasons, such as putting food in their children's mouths.

Directed by Trip Cullman as part of the Second Stage's Uptown Series, the play is about a final, desperate, mean girls' night out in a fancy hotel suite before the bride-to-be beats her resentful friends to the altar.

You'll look desperate, mean or just plain pushy.

With Harry Redknapp on the market, Rangers' desperate run means the manager's position is an on-going talking point and the social networks were alive with debate last night.

All this stress on the PR firms put on them by desperate clients means they send out the embargoed news to literally everyone who writes tech news stories.

They seem to present images of Englishness as mad, impoverished, desperate and mean.