They could offer protection and aid in return for loyal service, and desperate men flocked to their employment (mostly tenancy).
The play "Glengarry Glen Ross, " for example, for which Mr. Mamet won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, is about a group of desperate men competing with each other in a Chicago real estate office.
Boatloads of desperate Senegalese men still arriving illegally in Europe testify to the scarcity of decent jobs.
Imprisoning them was like trying to use a bailing bucket to drain the ocean: for each pirate captured by the authorities, there were dozens of desperate young men on shore ready to rush in and fill the void.
When he arrived inside, his office was thronged with men desperate to borrow money.
"Some of India's richest men are desperate to be part of India's first ever successful domestic sports league, " said Tandon.
The prospect of the pair meeting up in the final for a three-round slug-fest is mouth-watering, but there are younger men on the bill who are as desperate for victory.
Murray had started well, spurred on by a fervent home crowd desperate to see a first British winner in the men's singles since Fred Perry in 1936, breaking Federer in the very first game.
Instead, the men and their families became more and more desperate as time went on.
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As Atletico pressed, Bolton brought back more men and defended deeper, but it was not desperate stuff, and the English side comfortably handled whatever was flung into the area.
The home side became increasingly desperate in their search for an equaliser, throwing more and more men forward.
Men who have been rejected by their wives and girlfriends are always desperate to blame it on anything but the truth.
The Henley-based 27-year-old was part of the men's eight that finished as runners-up in Beijing, and he is desperate for gold in four years' time.
As a desperate power company tried to reconnect tens of thousands of other people, Rainfall Productions called to ask if its men would stop by and shut down the village's automatic street lights.
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