The sense of desperation in the face of a failed impeachment inquiry is palpable.
In an act of desperation this past summer, Foursquare finally observed the death of the check-in game and moved to local recommendations and couponing.
In an act of desperation, the SWC wanted to merge with the Big 8 in order to increase its television footprint.
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After leaving the Bantustan, they had lived on a succession of illegal sites squatters' camps some of which they had been forced to abandon, some of which they had left of their own volition, either in desperation or in the false hope of finding something better.
They see energies of desperation in him, and at the bottom, somewhere, a kind of fear... but of what?
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For less sanguine investors, the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation.
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In a sign of desperation, even Armenia is seen as a channel for the transfer of technology to Russia.
In an act of desperation, Severson went on to EBay to find investors who could infuse some cash into the racetrack.
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In an act of desperation, Donziger formally requested that Kaplan be removed, arguing that he had shown a consistent bias toward Chevron.
The Republican senator from Arizona accused the administration, "in its desperation, " of appearing to place its hopes on persuading the Russian government to push al-Assad from power.
In Glengarry Glen Ross (ranked seventh) and Tin Men (number nine), David Mamet and Barry Levinson, respectively, discovered drama in the desperation and chicanery of salesmen on commission.
Yet, insisting on laughter in the midst of desperation, he sugars the pill of criticism with humour that veers from the gently ironic to the bawdy or macabre.
The Republican senator from Arizona accused the administration, "in its desperation, " of now appearing to be placing its hopes on persuading the Russian government to push al-Assad from power.
There had been signs of desperation in the preceding weeks such as a plea to customers to take up 13.5% of the new shares but a belly flop of these proportions was surprising.
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In a paroxysm of desperation, Hadley managed to squirm out from beneath him, like an animal crawling on hands and knees, and in that instant she almost believed that she might escape Anton Kruppev but he had only to lunge after her, seize her ankle in his strong fingers, laughing and climbing over her, straddling her again, more forcibly this time, closing his fingers around her neck.
Persistent reports of farmers selling livestock and even their daughters in marriage to meet debts tell of desperation.
The US State Department says the Syrian government cut communications in a sign of its desperation.
America has also made overtures to erstwhile enemies in its desperation to get hold of any useful information.
There's going to be fear, anxiety, a sense of desperation in some cases.
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Like the USA there is an air of desperation in Europe around what to do next to reset the economy.
After misplaying the puck behind his own net, Khudobin stuck out his stick in desperation to get a piece of Kaleta's shot.
In its desperation to get rid of a president whom it sees as an authoritarian populist who is destroying the country, the opposition last year allowed itself to be provoked into trying some short-cuts.
There were rumors of problems on the film and when Sony announced it would push the movie from its December 22 release to early January in order to convert it into 3-D, the plan stunk of desperation (especially since 3-D conversion had created such disastrous results in Clash of the Titans).
The pressure is greatest on Afghan women, who continue to be treated as second-class citizens, which is why a growing number of young women in Afghanistan are choosing another way out of their desperation: suicide.
We feel both the blind mechanics of catastrophe and the desperation of those caught in its midst.
In the midst of a thoroughly gloomy labor market, the genuine desperation you see in the software talent wars is almost surreal.
The rise of the Obamacons is more than a reaction against Mr Bush's remodelling of the Republican Party and Mr McCain's desperation: there were plenty of disillusioned Republicans in 2004 who did not warm to John Kerry.
In a society which shuns confrontation except in the heat of the moment, this is an unprecedented step taken in desperation.
How sad if the investigation into the sadistic acts of a psychopath was to become a police circus in which the concept of 'innocent until proven guilty' was lost in the desperation to atone for past failures.
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