Sentence examples for waves of desperate from inspiring English sources
Asian nations have been struggling with the growing waves of desperate migrants who are landing on the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy flew to Tunis on Monday to meet with Tunisian officials in an effort to stem the waves of desperate migrants that have landed on the shores of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the past three months.
But this is a volatile period in New York history, and all it takes is a bogus confession from a vigilante who calls himself "the God of Gotham" to inflame passions about the waves of desperate immigrants fleeing the potato famine in Ireland and importing their despised Roman Catholic "popery" to Protestant New York.
The players' immersion in Lagerback's methods has been total and there has been no finer example of their application than the moment when, after they had withstood waves of desperate late Austrian attacks on Wednesday, substitutes Theodor Elmar Bjarnason and Arnor Ingvi Traustason broke upfield to contrive perhaps the most famous goal in Icelandic history.
The relentless urban combat in Mogadishu, between an unpopular transitional government — installed partially with American help — and a determined Islamist insurgency, has driven waves of desperate people up the Afgooye road, where more than 70 camps of twigs and plastic have popped up seemingly overnight.
A worsening of the situation could send another wave of desperate Haitians on rafts toward Florida, Mr. Aristide suggested.
Cardenas, where the story begins, is in some ways a logical setting: it sits due south of the Florida Keys, in the path of currents that have carried wave after wave of desperate migrants to the United States.
He will go into his Friday semi-final on a wave of desperate hype in the hope that he can become the first British man to reach a Wimbledon singles final since Bunny Austin in 1938.
Investing in agriculture is our best hope of stemming the 'tidal wave' of desperate migrants that is already putting huge pressure on poor cities.Lennart Båge, President, International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentComparing Kiberia to Dharavi when it comes to discussing urbanisation and slums is apt from the perspective of gross comparisons, but at the ground level it may fail.
The Age of the iPad has launched a wave of desperate moves, of actors and anchors testing the waters of the emerging economic model, of CEOs acting like COOs when what is needed is real leadership and insight.
The wave of desperate people flooding into Europe today, breaking through fences and police barriers, provides a glimpse of our future.
