He said the fact that Mr Pistorius had carried Ms Steenkamp downstairs showed he was desperate to save her life.
You become desperate to find a life for yourself and your family.
But between Belarus and Bulgaria it is hard to meet a young person who is not desperate to start a new life in the West.
Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.
I've struggled to lose weight all my life but never been desperate enough to starve myself, partly due to my love and appreciation of food and partly due to my awareness of how unhealthy such a move would be.
Yet frustratingly, annoyingly and illegally there are unqualified healers out there offering to treat vulnerable sick people who are desperate to free themselves of this life-destroying illness.
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This approach to managing product life-cycles is arguably more effective than the desperate machinations of some pharmaceutical companies to spin out patents on their ageing stars.
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Hewlett-Packard, which is in desperate need of new life may also look to Palo Alto as a way to enter the rising security market.
Environmentalists, long vexed by the destruction of Indonesia's primal forests and the damage done to its vast marine life, believe that the new government, desperate for foreign aid, will at last allow them to do something to stop the depredation.
After 1912, he never saw Dublin again, although he never wrote about any other place, and to the end of his life he was desperate for news of the city and its people.
But many people have doubts whether legislation or a padlock on a huge hangar in northern France will dissuade desperate people from coming halfway around the world to seek a better life.
After an initial round of friends and family fundraising, we were still in desperate need of cash and skilled people to bring the project to life and adequately reward all the contestants.
Her songs tell of long and sometimes desperate searches for love or a little clarity of thought or for instant solutions to life's problems.
This was to avoid any concern that the diagnosis is influenced by the desperate need for life-saving donor organs which are in short supply.
Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on harried working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time, with lots of reasons to leave work early.
Desperate to save him, Leonora offers herself to the Count in exchange for Manrico's life.
This is the selling point of Dead State: it is not set during the first desperate struggle to survive, but in the long, dull period when zombies have become a fact of life (or unlife).
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In a recent interview provided to CNN, a pirate leader claimed attacks onshipping would continue so long as life in Somalia remained desperate.
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