His entire economic agenda is one big and desperate attempt to boost American consumption.
They had filled water jugs with their own urine in a desperate attempt to stay alive.
Creating Mr Cubie's committee was a desperate attempt to buy the time they needed to settle their differences.
In a desperate attempt to avoid anything like that in the future I enrolled in a tax course.
Did the kid kill his father, and stage the phone call, in a desperate attempt to get playing time?
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The 2012 election amounted to a desperate attempt by the electorate to purge the Republican Party of clueless conservatism.
The move appears to be a desperate attempt by Microsoft to grow search and ultimately boost its search advertising revenues.
The sudden public welfare giveaway programs by the Saudi monarchy are a desperate attempt to pacify economic unrest.
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As part of a desperate attempt to assuage the traditionalists, Bishop Robinson has been excluded from the guest list for Lambeth.
Today public pensions are gambling more than ever on high-risk, high-fee alternative investments in a desperate attempt to narrow their massive underfunding.
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Others have been depleted so badly that severe fishing limitations have been imposed in a desperate attempt to allow stocks to recover.
It's a desperate attempt to cure the ills of the Tory party.
Mr Duhalde inherited a freeze on most bank deposits, put in place in a last desperate attempt to save the currency peg.
The government said it was a desperate attempt by the rebels who did not comment on the bombing to prevent civilians from deserting them.
As much as I wanted to believe him, the positive outcome he guaranteed seemed little more than a desperate attempt to comfort me.
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In a desperate attempt to cover up his crime, he kept his girlfriend's phone and sent texts to her family pretending to be her.
Monetising corporate debt is the last throw of the reflationary dice and will signpost one last, desperate attempt to keep the old system alive.
Wave after wave of Jewish soldiers threw themselves against the guns of the Jordan Legion in a desperate attempt to break its chokehold on Jerusalem.
When the bubble predictably bursts, get the Federal Reserve to pour trillions of dollars into the industry in a desperate attempt to reinflate the bubble.
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Brian Little inherited the worst squad in the league and his desperate attempt to bolster the playing staff in January did not have the desired effect.
The elections of 2006 and 2008 represented a desperate attempt by the electorate to reshape the Republican Party, which had lost its way since Reagan left office.
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The benchmark 10-year yield traded to as low as 3.09% despite a desperate attempt at a rally on Wall Street encouraged by recovering prices for crude oil futures.
This is just one more desperate attempt to do so.
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Critics described this as a desperate attempt to improve publicity.
He and friends of Mrs Chung For Yuen handed out leaflets across the West End and at stations and hospitals in London in a desperate attempt to find her.
Also lost in this desperate attempt to tamp down the tantrums is the absurd premise that legal culpability for a bad act can be shifted to a third party.
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They said the reason given over their poor attitude to training was "an insult to the intelligence of Kenyans" and represented a desperate attempt to settle a personal score.
Simon Paisley Day and Anna Madeley are both very fine as the ever-so-conventional types whom Elyot and Amanda marry in an increasingly desperate attempt to escape from one another.
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Back in 1999, Geocities had trouble monetizing its audience, slapping low-priced ads all over the site in a desperate attempt to monetize as much of its traffic as it could.
Edelman in turn sued Emigrant for fraud, which is pending, alleging the troubled bank tried to wrongly extract money from customers like him in a desperate attempt to fix its problems.
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