Sentence examples for made desperate efforts from inspiring English sources
Pro-Ukraine protesters made desperate efforts to reach people with ropes and improvised scaffolding.
The White House has made desperate efforts over the past week to defuse the protests.
She describes Ely left in ruins by the civil war, and the violence that continued through the years of reclamation as local people made desperate efforts of resistance.
Dr. Wood, who had just turned 31, died shortly afterward at Columbia-Presbyterian, after his colleagues made desperate efforts to save his life.
Still, even as some village officials have tried to suppress information, many AIDS patients have made desperate efforts to get their story out -- even traveling to Beijing to petition central leaders and meet with journalists.
While kicking up all forms of economic sanctions and conspiratorial "human rights" racket against the DPRK with mobilization of the hostile forces, the US has made desperate efforts to block its building of a thriving nation and improvement of the people's living standard and "bring down its social system".
Jiang and other elders are making desperate efforts to support their protégés," said Feng.
Their opponents were a world-champion group led by Rose Meltzer, and they were making desperate efforts to close the gap.
Congress had been making desperate efforts to raise the money, but it was handicapped by the fact that it was not empowered to levy taxes.
One remarkable document, the text of a report by a Soviet agent in Spain sent to none other than Kliment Voroshilov, Stalin's army chief, outlines a full strategy for going "decisively and consciously to battle" against the Republican government of Francisco Largo Caballero, the Socialist premier who, in the view of Moscow's agents, "is making desperate efforts to isolate the Communists".
The Magnum photojournalist Moises Saman was in Bangladesh this past week documenting the conditions Rohingya are enduring as they flee, whether wading through the river that marks the border between the two countries, making desperate efforts to obtain food and shelter, or finding dignified ways to bury their dead.
