With things getting desperate, Braley is trying to focus attention on Ernst's promise to support a "personhood" amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would make all abortions illegal.
When things get desperate, Lora leads her family out of their homestead on an epic quest for survival, only to find the mysteries multiplying.
The joystick breaks right off, and things get desperate in a hurry here.
In the long term, if things get desperate enough, perhaps those in Congress will be willing to turn their backs on their campaign contributors, listen to the voters, and pass some real tax reforms.
Things got so desperate at Roxy's hen do that they wheeled in Aunt bloody Sal.
The posts I applied for included business consultancy, advertising, PR, sales, the civil service fast stream and even a couple of game shows when things got really desperate.
Her expression as we sat down said it all – had things got so desperate that, after fifteen years working on these issues, we'd turned to the opposite of evidence – the arts?
In the eccentric, ground-level adventures of some stranded passengers — 700-mile taxi rides through Scandinavia, for instance, perhaps a horse-drawn stagecoach over the Alps if things got really desperate — I'm reminded of the romance we trade away each time we shuffle aboard an airplane.
The perpetrator of all these lies was of course a mild man on the surface, in many ways unnoticeable, well used to avoiding drawing attention to himself, except occasionally, when he concocted elaborate ruses to both gain sympathy and distract - pretending while a student to have been set upon; claiming, when things got more desperate, that he had cancer.
In The Long Winter things got so desperate the town had to eat their seed wheat, they'd have all starved without it.
