Sentence examples for desperate to seize from inspiring English sources

It certainly feels as if it was written at speed by a man desperate to seize his moment.

Mr. Latchford said that the government lawyers, desperate to seize a high-profile antiquity, were "weaving together suppositions" to inflate his role.

If the Administration has been aggressive — hasty, some charge — in pushing for signs of progress in Burma, it is perhaps because moments of such stark political change are exceedingly rare, and they are desperate to seize it.

Desperate to seize what it believes is a unique window for an agreement, the White House dissuaded critics in the Senate from introducing a bill that would impose new sanctions against Iran, a move it said could sabotage the talks.

The show's use of Betty teeters between giving us a woman desperate to seize her chance at a new life and making her little more than an earthy dispenser of down-home wisdom.

The Saints, trailing by 17-3 andesperateto to seize momentum, were lost in the vapor trail of Moss's 68-yard catch-and-run on the third play of the second half.

Nearly 300 men of the 54th became casualties, along with their commander, Col. Robert Gould Shaw, in a desperate attempt to seize the approach to Charleston.

If nothing else, anonymous discussion boards like 4Chan seem to encourage desperate attempts to seize internet infamy.

The endgame approaches for Neil Gamby and Lee Russell's plans to take down Belinda Brown, each veep desperate as ever to seize a position of power while fuelled by priggish entitlement.

Al Jazeera quoted Shiite Muslim lawmaker Khalid Assadi in Iraq as dismissing the proclaimed caliphate as "nothing but a wild imagination of a desperate fanatic gang that wants to seize control in a bloody way".

Failing to seize the opportunity may result in the flow of desperate people northward becoming uncontrollable.