FARC's smaller cousin has for some time seemed almost desperate to give up its war.
During World War II, Desperate Dan used his peashooter to bring down German aircraft and sink U-boats.
But every time he encroaches into an area that concerns what used to be called the "moral majority" he risks sparking the cultural war he is desperate to avoid.
Then comes the potential for a price war with other schools desperate to fill their classrooms.
In 1982, after decades of war, people were desperate and poaching was lucrative.
Above all, they had hoped for a verdict on the war's last 60 hours, when a desperate last push deep into south Lebanon gained nothing but the deaths of 33 soldiers, a quarter of the war's total Israeli losses (some 1, 400 Lebanese are reckoned to have died).
Arriving in the war zone, he starts a desperate chase to find medicines for Vittoria.
Saint Consulting has made a specialty of waging war on behalf of corporate clients desperate to win zoning battles.
The drafters of the Geneva Conventions understood that the laws of war are quickly abandoned by a desperate army.
Unlike most of the Clintonistas he had seen war up close, observing the desperate, aimless crowds in ruined Japan as a naval ensign in 1945.
Meanwhile, Democrats preen on about the phony "war on women" and are increasingly desperate to lure attention away from their disastrous policies.
War today looks horrifying, random, intractable, and desperate.
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Mr Segev is weaker when he ventures to make bigger historical judgments, such as the novel claim that it was the Arab revolt before the second world war, rather than that of the more powerful and more desperate Jews after it, which made Britain give up on Palestine.
The Democrats are desperate to shift the political debate back to the economy and away from the prospect of war with Iraq.
In the second world war Mr Spilhaus had been called in when the American navy was puzzled, and indeed desperate, because German submarines were eluding its warships after apparently being detected by sonar.
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