We are desperate to get this country through the recession and into recovery and that is what I intend to continue to do."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

The U.N.refugee agency says Somalis desperate to flee war, drought and poverty in their country continue to risk their lives by taking the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"This is an opportunity to help a neighbor in need, in desperate need, and to do it with swiftness, expertise,generosity and love."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Mahecic says thousands of desperate Somalis continue to risk their lives and use unscrupulous smugglers to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The much-criticized electoral commission chairman Maurice Iwu blames a desperate political class motivated largely by a desire to enjoy the profits of office for Nigeria's electoral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01