Sentence examples for on desperation from inspiring English sources

The tone of the lobbyists is one of alarm bordering on desperation.

Mugabe's opponents are counting on desperation and anger overcoming fear at the ballot box this week.

But there are others that prey on poverty and thrive on desperation.

The conservative Costinha was withdrawn and Rui Costa joined Figo in a hurried reunion built on desperation.

Directed with a bravado that verges on desperation by the redoubtable George C. Wolfe, this big, untidy historical comedy is pretty much the sum of what it cites.

At a time when everyone in the publishing and media industries is scratching their heads and bordering on desperation, Slitkin is being heralded as a boy genius.

The result is a combustible dynamic of desperation on one side and arrogance on the other.

He wanted to get into white-collar criminal prosecution because it focused not on crimes of desperation but on crimes of greed.

He also had two interceptions, the last one on a desperation throw toward the end zone on the game's final play.

There is a sense of desperation on both sides here.

Some of them put on expressions of desperation.