If France can succeed where England so desperately failed in getting players in advanced central positions to trouble Iceland's midfield pairing of Gylfi Sigurdsson and Aron Gunnarsson, they should progress.
When some hospitals have so desperately failed patients despite never having more resources, it simply isn't credible to claim that a few more nurses would have stopped it all happening.
After all, the reason why regime representatives refuse to listen to the accusations is because they provide the best evidence there is that the DPRK has desperately failed its own people.
Yet this constant appeal to language – as if that were the presiding literary property in any novel, or indeed the only principle of the craft involved – desperately fails to understand what a novel is and what a novel does.
In this case, the most exclusive ticket in town admits you to a three-hour binge not of high opera but of low comedy, an irony almost as satisfying as the wildfire success of a musical about the wildfire success of producers who are trying desperately to fail.
For more than 300 years, mathematicians desperately tried and failed to rediscover Fermat's proof, which only made his inadvertent challenge even more infamous.
Dozens and dozens of musical groups, rock bands, choruses, folk singers, gypsy bands, jazz ensembles played almost non-stop in the largest indoor sports arena in the country - a true tower of song that the regime had desperately tried, and failed, to control".
Argentina aren't playing well, having looked stodgy against Bosnia-Herzegovina, then desperately struggled, and nearly failed, to break down Iran.
While the Lakers, the team Kobe Bryant desperately wanted for himself, failed to make the playoffs, the Spurs' linchpin, Tim Duncan, shared the ball with Manu Ginóbili and Tony Parker on his way to a third N.B.A. crown.
failed to provide desperately needed foreign exchange when it was most needed; it then imposed policies that worsened the downturn.
Some are difficult, but all are possible: A CREDIBLE NEW GOVERNMENT President René Préval has failed to provide desperately needed leadership.
