If nothing is learned, why are students and parents so desperate to get into the best schools?
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He'll be very motivated, (but) if he goes in so desperate to do well it might not happen.
In extreme cases, an investment firm is so desperate for a specific security that it lends its cash for free.
But for a player so desperate to lose the label of never having won a tournament, any title is one worth having.
But the labourer is often so desperate for a loan, without other sources of credit, that there is little real choice involved.
Yet European car makers are so desperate for the extra cash flow that they prefer to sell now and to worry later.
Conditions in the community are so desperate, some parents exaggerate the aliments of a child in order to get them into the commune.
All of that being said, European officials and ministers have never been so desperate as they are now as we approach the final month of 2011.
Yes, things are so desperate in Japan that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.
Some analysts think Iraq won't accept being constrained by an Opec quota - being so desperate for every dollar it can get to pay for reconstruction.
The outcome is a movie so desperate to provoke comparisons with the religious enmities of today that it somehow forgets the fire in its own belly.
Soniya was so desperate to talk to other families with children in the same position as Kray that she set up her own support group website.
Louisiana is so desperate it's financing postproduction work done back in Hollywood, as long as the studio spends some time--how much is up to the state--on the bayou.
Yes, things have gotten so desperate in Japan lately that a foreign corporation is allowed to insert itself into that most ancient and most sheltered of industries, agriculture.
He says he had no idea that Accardo was so desperate but sensed that he was tired and so told him to stay behind and rest a little.
"People are so desperate for these things that they are willing to wear everyday household buckets, " says Mr. Sanders, adding that official Daft Punk merchandise is hard to find.
The defendant even compares himself to the protagonist of Mr. Kiarostami's "The Traveler" ("Mossafer, " 1974), about a boy so desperate to attend a soccer match that he steals and cheats.
Sedona was so desperate (or naive) that it signed off on a dangerous conversion feature: The more the stock went down, the more shares the bondholder was entitled to upon converting.
It's horrific to see an animal so desperate to keep up with the pack, struggling to get up on three legs with that one snapped leg just swinging round and round.
So it may be better to look for a solution on the demand side: why is it that British pension funds are so desperate for long gilts in the first place?
In the recently expanded cemeteries around Ndola, several graves have been dug up: local thieves are so desperate that they strip fresh corpses of the smart suits in which they are buried.
Similarly, in boom conditions commodity consumers will be so desperate to get their hands on raw materials that they will drive prices up to absurd levels, at least for a short time.
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Mr Soutar, who is also an honorary senior lecturer at Glasgow University, said patients were so desperate for surgery that many were willing to forsake the next year's holiday to pay for treatment.
Rural newspapers were so desperate for copy that many printed whatever the California Feature Service sent them, including documents that were basically press releases disguised as editorials endorsing whatever political position Campaigns, Inc.
"I am so desperate to know how it feels to read the most complicated book in the world, " said He Kuang, a 50-year-old civil servant in the coastal city Xiamen, who bought the translation.
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Both films hark back to a more somber, measured pace and muted palette, a time when movies weren't so desperate to rush us off our feet and sought to engage the mind -- not overload the senses.
"Once again we see that the GOP will truly do and say anything regardless of whether or not it's true, they are so desperate to hold onto power, " Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney said in a statement.
And it also involves a judge who appears to have been so desperate to close the deal that he barred plaintiffs from opting out and prohibited competing lawyers from telling class members there might be more money on the table.
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But here's the thing -- I already asked him, and the chances that I'm going to be so desperate for a social recommendation that I'll turn to my social networks for something to do is, at least in my case, slim to none.
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