Sentence examples for desperate to achieve from inspiring English sources

We're all desperate to achieve it, and hopefully we can do so sooner rather than later.

First, some of the most elevating American movies "are about people desperate to achieve something that they do not get to achieve".

Both are intricately human and responsible for their choices – desperate to achieve their ambitions and desolate in suffering remorse without repentance.

It is not association with Brown but association with Clegg that has now sunk the electoral reform he was so desperate to achieve.

If the government was desperate to achieve $5.7 billion in savings in 2014, it'd be more efficient to simply tax individuals and companies to the tune of $5.7 billion and leave the eligibility age where it is.

A few months passed, and Beryl - desperate to achieve her deadline - added an afterthought to her column on the subject of Rhoda's struggle to finish As Flies to Wanton Boys.

Some women reflected on the link between their age and declining fertility, which served to increase their desperation to achieve motherhood: Having hit 40 and I'm feeling desperate, absolutely desperate, I would try anything and everything (Bernadette, 40yrs).

But society tells us health is visual, and then expects us not to take increasingly desperate measures to achieve the same look.

In a desperate attempt to achieve harmony for the sake of the children, Clara, the enchanting heroine, invites a vast extended family of parents, steps-in-laws, embattled ex-husbands, warring couples and lame-duck friends to stay.

It has no support in the economics profession and Osborne's desperate efforts to achieve it have resulted in the misery of spending cuts and the short-sighted slashing of vital investment.

However, in my experience as an employer of economists for several decades the reason for a loss of interest in economics lies primarily with those who teach it.For 40 years, in a desperate attempt to achieve professional respectability, economics teaching has sought to become a mathematical rather than a behavioural science, as it used to be.