You can argue whether orchestras are doing this out of financial desperation, or whether they are simply adapting to the needs of a changing society.
With bills set to rise for the rest of this decade, as suppliers replace worn-out plants and invest in renewable energy, action is needed to ensure that households escape the desperation of choosing whether to eat or stay warm.
The frightening question in this drama, directed by Bernhard Wicki, is whether the desperation of poverty is stronger than basic morality.
And now some of those friends say they wonder whether his desperation for acceptance — or delusions of grandeur — may have led him to disclose the largest trove of government secrets since the Pentagon Papers.
"The Tories now need to tell us whether their desperation for headlines and faster cuts means the cost of closing quangos is actually bigger than the savings.
Whether desperation gave way to greed -- only Dr. Murray can answer that question.
Yet he adds that it is his duty to capture the aching desperation of modern Russian life, whether in Brighton Beach or in Moscow.
Corporate directors, whether out of desperation to hire someone they want or out of sympathy for someone with whom they have worked closely, often agree to executives' wishes.
Regardless of whether it was courage or desperation that spurred his proactivity, hard-luck David Paterson came out of last month's fiasco unusually popular.
Whether that desperation comes from the breakneck pace of competition that famed VC Kai-Fu Lee alluded to yesterday at Disrupt, or to an increasingly regulation-happy and controlling Beijing government, is an open question.
But the next step in what many would say is a conspiracy theory, borne out of Brexiteer desperation, is to ponder whether the EU as a whole is over-egging their true level of worry about what happens to the border.
