Given the opportunity, these guys were really, really motivated to help themselves out of a desperate situation.
The children were hiding in the woods in order not to be taken, it was a desperate situation.
Another such story, related to me by Steve Blank in a recent interview, recounts a desperate situation for another pioneering Silicon Valley electronics manufacturer: Its recipe for doping (preparing) silicon wafers had stopped working.
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"My sense is that Hondurans are finding themselves in a desperate situation and they really want U.S. cooperation, and that gives the U.S. some margin to make mistakes, " said Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue.
"Generally, it's perceived that orphans have far greater challenges abroad than they do in the United States, so when it comes to adopting a child, families typically want to raise a child out of a desperate situation, " said Kim de Blecourt, founder of Nourished Hearts, a faith-based support network for those connected to adoption and foster care.
The destruction of Timbuktu's shrines adds a moral and cultural crisis to a desperate humanitarian situation.
Mr. MICHAEL WIDMER (President, Massachusetts Taxpayer's Foundation): The state is facing a really desperate fiscal situation and all programs are on the chopping block.
With employers like Liu calling for a lower minimum wage, South Africa finds itself in a situation where it is desperate to create work, but unable to guarantee what the government considers decent pay.
Regulators are desperate to avoid a situation where shareholders bank private profits but losses are borne by the taxpayer.
The second is a desperate need to prevent the situation escalating.
It's possible another desperate situation leads Anthony into a similar scoring explosion this week.
"I had no education, no job and was desperate, " Hosni told me in a surprisingly clear voice for someone whose situation seemed so dire.
In 2012, the UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said that a "criminal network" of smugglers and traffickers was "taking profit of the desperate situation of many Eritreans".
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