Sentence examples for desperate to cross from inspiring English sources

A whole new category of health immigrants could emerge: boatloads of patients and families desperate to cross over to Europe for surgery.

Corrupt fighters on the rebel side extorted those desperate to cross; snipers on the regime side used the alley for target practice.

The plot of The Last Stand is simple enough and gives Schwarzenegger ample opportunity to display his familiar, if somewhat limited, range of acting talents – a ruthless fugitive bears down on the usually sleepy community, desperate to cross the frontier into freedom.

"The migrants themselves are desperate to cross.

Four small boats set out from the Libyan coast this weekend carrying hundreds of migrants and refugees desperate to cross the Mediterranean and reach Europe.

I have written often about this frontier, and about the fact that companies are desperate to cross the barrier, whether with sensors that turn our movements into bits (computer vision) or with direct human-robot interaction (Echo).

"We cannot stand by and watch as more children are driven to the same desperate attempts to cross the Channel".

But the argument that what happens in Africa is someone else's problem is disproved by the attempts of thousands of desperate souls to cross the Mediterranean.

By midday the Americans were retreating through Park Slope in a desperate attempt to cross Gowanus Creek (now Canal) to their fortifications in Brooklyn Heights.

After being set-up by James, Nick Abendanon drove through several desperate tackles to cross the line and give Bath a one-point lead with two minutes to go.

One of the boats was carrying six Syrians when it sank after leaving Akyarlar, in a desperate attempt to cross the 5km Aegean straight to Kos that represented their best chance of entering the EU.