Sentence examples for desperate operations from inspiring English sources

Compared now with DiMaggio, he appeared more open, less wary, with nothing to hide and everything to share, as the darkness of failing eyesight, the helplessness of strokes and daily dialysis and the desperate operations that the wealthy and famous must endure closed in.

His comments are in line with the military consensus that the war was a far more desperate operation than was understood at the time.

The syndrome is what drove doctors at Loma Linda University to perform a desperate operation in 1984, in which they transplanted a baboon heart into an infant who died 20 days later.

In Molyvos, on the Greek island's north coast, the beaches have become almost buried under sunken dinghies, inflatables, clothes, shoes and detritus left by desperate rescue operations.

From our reporter on the scene: the full story of the daring, desperate rescue operation.

Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland secretary, was assuming command of a desperate salvage operation, instigating crisis talks with Ulster Unionists.

Downing Street insisted the report did not reach the conclusions Baker claimed and accused him of a desperate spinning operation.

The desperate rescue operation reached the miners after assorted mechanical setbacks and a long, excruciating period of silence from below since Thursday when the noise of rescue operations rendered fruitless any attempt at hearing tapped signals from the men.

While a desperate rescue operation was under way to try to prevent ecological disaster a mile off the Devon coast, a scramble of a different kind was taking place, one unlikely to have cheered the insurers of the 62,000 tonne cargo ship that was stricken in last week's storm.

Iowa is not alone: Washington State doesn't want apples rotting on the ground for lack of pickers; Wisconsin worries about small dairy operations desperate for people to milk the cows.

She told The Guardian she was desperate for the operation.