Sentence examples for desperate to provide from inspiring English sources

The screenwriters are desperate to provide him with dialogue to match his "greed is good" motto.

Desperate to provide food for his daughter, Tateh turns a talent for cutting silhouettes into proprietorship of a Hollywood director's chair.

SUMMERLAND, British Columbia — Desperate to provide for his family, Hilario Mendoza leapt at the chance to leave Mexico to pick cherries on a farm in British Columbia.

According to Wright, who attended the conference, an athlete desperate to provide for his family — and to reach the professional level — may not feel he has the luxury to divulge, much less explore, a mental health issue.

And I know everyone is fixated on dessert -- fearful of eating it, even more desperate to provide it -- but this final course doesn't have to be a big deal.

With only days to live and desperate to provide for his family, he steals a small amount of weapons-grade plutonium and tries to sell it in Moscow on the black market.

The plot turns on the travails of a crack-addicted prostitute and her desperate attempts to provide her son with a better life.

As the regime tries to destroy the opposition's medical system, health workers pursue a novel and desperate effort to provide aid.

The bleakness of what's come before hangs heavy as the desperate need to provide us with some sort of happy ending proves jarring.

"Now the return of 3-D is a desperate attempt to provide novelty again, but this time the enemy is the industry's own aesthetic inertia".

As the director-general of the International Center for Research in Agroforestry, he was responding to the desperate need to provide local farmers with a means to restore the agricultural health of their land.