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When you are seated, it is to the backdrop of a resentful crowd desperately willing you to hurry up.

The "Death of Irony" will presumably continue with the imminent arrival of the NBC series "Celebrity Apprentice," on which Mr. Blagojevich is a desperately willing co-star.

And every interest group with a stake in this argument – business, environment groups, investors – are desperately willing the major parties to find some kind of consensus.

I leaned against the window, looking up the road, forehead pressed against the backs of my hands, desperately willing the midwife to appear.

Mr. McCain's spokesman, Tucker Bounds, would not discuss the senator's night of gambling at Foxwoods, saying: "Your paper has repeatedly attempted to insinuate impropriety on the part of Senator McCain where none exists — and it reveals that your publication is desperately willing to gamble away what little credibility it still has".

His last goals came in the dead-rubber that was the Capital One Cup semi-final second leg at West Ham United on 21 January and the City crowd were desperately willing the striker to receive a shot of confidence on Saturday.

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Though snake handling is condemned by mainstream Pentecostal denominations, Wolford believes that 21st-century Christianity desperately needs people willing to exhibit such signs.

We desperately need leaders willing to stand up and defend rather than subvert our Constitutional rights.

Like a medieval history graduate who's just left university with a third class degree, Nick Clegg is desperately lonely and willing to work with anyone.

The capital Baghdad is somewhat of a central hub for the trade, with hundreds of people estimated to have sold organs such as their kidneys to dealers who then sell them for massive profits to desperately ill people willing to pay.

It is a national disgrace that the strongest supporters of tougher mine safety concede that it will likely take another disaster before lawmakers will be willing to buck Big Coal and pass desperately needed safety legislation.

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