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.
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".
Desperately contriving connections, the playwright fails to unite disparate characters.
A skills shortage in developing countries means that billions of dollars of foreign aid fails to reach desperately needed water and sanitation projects every year, a leading development charity has found.
But every so often one of these implanted devices fails to work when it is desperately needed.
Homer desperately tries to prevent the letter from reaching Burns, but fails.
