Sentence examples for desperate to secure from inspiring English sources

Each call brought another promoter desperate to secure a ticket.

This has fed the insecurity of rice-importing nations, already increasingly desperate to secure supplies.

Now, with family members getting older, they are desperate to secure their loved ones' return.

Mr Blair was "desperate to secure his legacy" but doing it by "sitting in Downing Street pulling levers".

Now, it seems as though we will just accept anything because we are so desperate to secure a deal.

He made little secret of the fact that he was desperate to secure agreement before Belgium took over the EU's agenda-setting presidency in July.

In a desperate attempt to secure more oil, for example, Japan recently did a deal with the United Arab Emirates.

In a diner in Manchester, N.H., a Clinton backer eager for an 11th hour presidential signature resorted to desperate means to secure something for him to sign.

Producers are asked to find an alternative to hit series and keep trying to rework details and shift characters in a desperate effort to secure a hit.

But some analysts see the petro as a desperate move to secure cash amid an unprecedented economic meltdown brought about by Maduro's socialist policies.

He travels from the dog tracks of the East End to Manchester's druggy underground in a desperate effort to secure the cash.