Sentence examples for in despondent from inspiring English sources

But this violence was quickly exploited by al-Qaida affiliates, some foreign and some Iraqi, who gained a foothold in despondent Sunni heartlands.

At its extreme, this argument is amplified by the prediction, reportedly based on opinion surveys, that large numbers of practicing doctors will hang up their shingles in despondent response to the law.

A mere 30 minutes long, it maps the breakdown of a relationship, but rather than stewing in despondent aftermath there is a keenness to Michaelson's storytelling, there in the sharp cut of his lyrics, the humour, the precision of his vocabulary, that lifts these woebegone tales from the gloom.

Posada refused to play in a game against the Red Sox in May, despondent that Girardi had dropped him to ninth in the batting order.

Hundreds of thousands remain displaced, living in tents and shacks in villages, in drab and despondent refugee centers in towns, or doubled up with relatives in cramped and unhealthy surroundings in the cities, as many as 30 to an apartment.

And the central tragedy of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is evoked in the antique image of Jim in a despondent slumber projected over a 9-by-14-foot field of illustrated book pages.

Graeme Harper decided to focus on Jacqueline King in the scene when her character, Sylvia Noble, stares vacantly in a despondent manner as Donna talks to her; Harper considered the scene to be "Jacqueline's moment" and thought the scene would be more powerful if the focus was kept on one character.

There were good stretches in the despondent "Old Love" (after Mr. Cray raised the stakes) and in the fiery "Crossroads".

When Rosenzweig came into his office on Monday morning, he found Tommy Pon and Chris Donohue in a despondent mood.

The possibility of a runoff between Mr. Humala, whose own controversial father, Isaac Humala, espouses an ultranationalist ideology, and Ms. Fujimori has some in Peru despondent.

In 2013, despondent at the prospect of Obama failing to release them, more than 100 detainees launched a hunger strike that became an international cause célèbre.