Sentence examples for desperate request from inspiring English sources

Almost everyone had stories of finding wedding rings and other precious heirlooms, sometimes at the desperate request of the owner.

For two days officials said they detected increasingly faint tapping from inside the sub's hull which had been interpreted as a desperate request for fresh air.

Another time, in still another cafe filled with enemy soldiers, her contact whispered a desperate request to her to help him repair the package he was carrying.

"It is a desperate request, but not one that we can legally respond to," said Sergio Fontes, the superintendent of the federal police in the northern city of Manaus, which oversees Tabatinga.

"IOM has received a desperate request for assistance from a group of some 3,000 Malian migrants, including many women and children, who have been living for the past 10 days in the basement and the halls of the Malian embassy in Abidjan," it said.

In recent days, Austin has made desperate requests for assistance to the U.S. military, which will be conducting exercises in Texas in July.

Then, last week, Fox News reported that agency officials had refused desperate requests for help from operatives under fire in Libya, and the agency issued a flat denial.

Keep a camera on him long enough and he'll begin to blink out desperate requests for sanctuary in morse code.

Volunteer workers Diana Makarova and Natalya Voronkova, who had until recently organised much of the evacuation of Debaltseve, said they had received hundreds of desperate requests from the town and surrounding villages.

Over the years, the regime had tried to kill her at least once (in 2003), labelled her a "genocidal prostitute," and denied her husband's desperate requests to visit her before his death, from prostate cancer, in 1999.

By mid-November, 133 had been deployed to Greek islands, and Frontex was still issuing desperate requests to EU countries to chip in more officers to help with screening and registration.