• Mehlman uses his mother's concentration-camp number to gamble on, a despairing joke of a way to show that misfortune is always with us.

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  • By March 2009 they were down to a despairing 13 times, despite a much more minor downturn in the real market.

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  • By turns playful and fierce, Packer alters mercurially from a "woman warrior" like Joan of Arc to a bashful young Juliet to a despairing Lady Macbeth, to name but a few of the most familiar.

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  • Credit Bernanke hugely for the rise of share prices from a despairing time.

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  • Despairing of getting a state with the co-operation of Mr Netanyahu, they are urging the UN to vote one into being instead.

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  • Kuqi then made amends with his fifth goal of the season, throwing himself at Gower's cross and scuffing his header past a despairing Steele.

    BBC: Swansea 3-1 Barnsley

  • Carlos Cuellar miscued a header and Barry a volley before Boro's failure to clear Petrov's close-range shot allowed Carew to lash his drive past a despairing Jones.

    BBC: Middlesbrough 1-1 Aston Villa

  • Without a doubt, its voice of despairing outrage will rise to a squeal if the Americans give way to Iraqi and Iranian demands to cut the movement loose.

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  • Read the despairing disclosure statement for a financing in October for TiVo, the TV-recording pioneer in Alviso, California.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • There is a fine, despairing comedy to these events not just in our fidgety hero, but in the constant thwarting of our need to know.

    NEWYORKER: Memento

  • This time they sprung the scrum-half round the front of a line-out and although he was halted by Luke Arscott, the 18 stone Buxton came thundering up in support before battering through a couple of despairing tackles to score from 10 metres out.

    BBC: Gloucester 39-10 Bristol

  • Alex ripped a 25-yard free-kick high past the despairing grasp of Fabianski after Koscielny had been booked for a foul on Anelka.

    BBC: Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal

  • Undeterred Canada hit back, Sinclair powering a fine header beyond the despairing Hope Solo in the U.S. goal after 67 minutes.

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  • For a while there I was despairing for the future of football.

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  • The 22-year-old made it safe in first-half injury-time when he did well to turn on the edge of the penalty area and slide a low shot past the despairing dive of goalkeeper Zeng Cheng.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • And, eight minutes into the second half, Irish striker Anthony Stokes scored the first of his two goals on the night by curling a free-kick past the despairing Hearts goalkeeper.

    BBC: Jim Jefferies puzzled by Hearts' defensive 'shambles'

  • Laila Robins gives a spirited, often vitriolic performance as despairing Alice, married for 25 "hellish" years to Edgar, (Daniel Davis).

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  • Despairing of official help, the islanders have entered a joint venture with Unilever, an international consumer-goods firm, which may have enough cash and clout to pressure the authorities to curb the counterfeiters.

    ECONOMIST: As communism crumbles, a great cuisine revives

  • The ineffable beauty of this pedal combined with despairing bass clarinets as she opens her closet create a moving musical portrait of a vulnerable woman who has become a victim of the plot she helped hatch.

    NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

  • Despite the despairing rhetoric of Republican hardliners, the sequester is but a scalpel when a meat-ax is required.

    FORBES: Republicans Mislead Their Base With Handwringing Over Sequester Defense Cuts

  • When Robson replaced Kanu with Darren Moore it seemed as if he was happy with a point, but Carter had other ideas, rifling a wonderful shot beyond Jens Lehmann's despairing dive.

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  • So a few weeks ago, he put out this despairing mea culpa on local TV.

    NPR: YouTube Emerges as Political Tool in Campaigns

  • The All Blacks then exploded into life with a dazzling attack from a line-out but Ugo Monye's despairing tackle was enough to just force Mils Muliaina into touch.

    BBC: England 6-19 New Zealand

  • It did not take long for United to take the lead - and it came courtesy of a stunning solo effort from Nani, who cut in from the right and hit a sweet 20-yard curling shot past the despairing Dimitar Ivankov.

    BBC: Man Utd 1-0 Bursaspor

  • In almost everything he does, Oldham radiates a kind of resignation that can be either genial or despairing.

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  • The darkest note in the story it's what no conventional sci-fi blockbuster would dare to include is the Mortensen character's despairing realization that he must be prepared at any moment to fire a bullet into his beloved son should they be captured, since the bandits who roam the land would rape and kill the boy if he didn't.

    CNN: Review: A journey down 'The Road'

  • Boyd clipped the ball through the centre of the Celtic defence and Miller was onto it in a flash and showed great composure to roll it past the despairing Boruc.

    BBC: Rangers 2-1 Celtic

  • Here he provides a social commentary from the ground up, as an exhausted and despairing people picked their way through the rubble.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese history

  • As in life, patience (with a good dose of perspective) helps keep difficult situations from turning into despairing ones.

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  • We can also imagine them, though, coming here concerned about their future, sometimes second-guessing strategy, maybe fighting off some creeping doubts, perhaps despairing about whether the movement in which they had placed so many of their hopes -- a movement in which they believed so deeply -- could actually deliver on its promise.

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