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I was calling around looking for anybody who was available. I was desperate for pitching, and he was available. There wasn't anything about him we particularly liked other than that we could get him.

I thought they went really well against the Dogs and they'll be desperate against us.

I think we know the manager really well now, we've worked with him for a long time. We know he's desperate to win this World Cup and I don't think the relationship with the players has been affected by what's happened recently.

It is nonsense on stilts and seemingly the work of a desperate journalist...

It is an act of hypocrisy from everybody who votes for it, we know this is about containing debate to try and keep dissenters in the cart in the desperate hope that none of them split on the floor today and if any of them in cocky's corner have got the courage of their convictions, they won't be voting for this, and they won't be voting for this legislation this afternoon.

It is a mix of desperate short covering by domestic banks and a relief rally.

I think there is a tendency on the part of some of the cable networks to be in a desperate race to be first with the obvious. Can you imagine going to any one of those people and saying, 'Give us three hours of prime time'? It wouldn't happen.

I thought we were all kind of desperate housewives. Mine was just a little more desperate than they were.

Jeanne conveyed a human being's view of what she saw. Her reporting was incredibly solid. Her humanity was incredibly real. The marriage of those two elements helped viewers understand the desperate situation.

I said 'George, if you want to end world tyranny, you have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is in bed, leaving me to watch 'Desperate Housewives' with Lynne Cheney. Ladies and gentlemen, I am a desperate housewife.

I sang there as a child and through high school, ... My goal is to give people hope at any given night someone is out there in a desperate situation.

I respectfully ask legal authorities to launch an investigation as soon as possible. I am desperate to find out who switched the samples for what motive and how.

People are desperate to achieve some incremental revenues from resources not used efficiently. One way is to sell dead legs.

People are in a desperate situation in terms of food. Above all, they have to be given emergency aid. We have to create jobs immediately to calm the situation.

Our industry is almost desperate for new workers. If the current undocumented workers are pulled out of the industry, we will be in crisis mode.

Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker.

Our team has pulled closer together and maybe being in a desperate situation helped us. We've put the second half of the season behind us and our players now believe they can win instead of hoping they can win.

Retailers must always be focused on knowing their customers. But in desperate times like these that message gets hammered home because the competition is so fierce for a limited amount of dollars.

Refreshingly original, bracingly adult, and thoroughly delightful, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn't know you'd made.

Patients with this disease face a desperate situation for which we really lack any promising approaches,

Our organization hears from thousands of teens and young adults each year who are desperate for information and resources beyond the one-sided 'born-gay' message that saturates our culture.

My most vivid memory - it's actually one of my first memories - I was three, and I was the youngest angel in the show production. And I remember being absolutely desperate for the toilet. I needed to wee really badly. So I was crossing my legs when I was walking down.

Marketers are desperate to find ways to reach people. Especially young men, who are far too busy playing 'Grand Theft Auto' to notice, say, a 30-second TV commercial.

Matt has between now and the draft to see if he can to get something done. It will take the cooperation of the agent. ... We're not in a desperate need for a quarterback. I've got a very veteran quarterback that I think has got at least two and hopefully more years left in Trent Green. ... But if it makes sense -- and I'm not sure what that is yet -- to try to acquire his services, fine.

I won't say Pete Rose is desperate to get into a hall of fame, but I saw him renting a chicken suit.

I think most people see through that and see that as a desperate attempt to silence people, to make people believe their voices won't matter. There's nothing un-American about it, or not supporting our troops, or anything like that.

I think I'm coming to a different stage of my career and hopefully this is going to be a very good beginning to something I am so desperate to achieve.

The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.

That was not a desperate choice. He's been adapting to the pace of our game ever since we started the preseason campaign, and he has developed physically as well. Tonight we thought it time to hand him his full debut on the European stage.

That was not a desperate choice, ... He's been adapting to the pace of our game ever since we started the preseason campaign, and he has developed physically as well. Tonight we thought it time to hand him his full debut on the European stage.

Most informed people agree that the U.N. is in desperate need of reform,

Merck would have been in a desperate situation if it had not won this case because a negative verdict would have encouraged waves of other plaintiffs to come forward.

Michael is desperate to go but with hamstrings we have to be extra cautious.

We played more desperate than the situation warranted. Woodland is a good team. They are really, really good at forcing people to play faster than they want to play. We didn't adjust to their tempo.

We're desperate. We're in a desperate situation, and the prospect is not good.

We're desperate to play well. We can't just play OK and win . . . we want to play well, feel good and win. We have to play well not just because it's the Michigan game, but because we have a lot still going for us and still ahead of us.

We're desperate now. It's only going to be more desperate.

We're desperate for people. It asks for commitment because the clubs are held twice a week but we need to have two people there at all times.

We don't want to, next year, employ the providers if they haven't delivered good services. The bottom line is the students. These are students who are in desperate need of help.

We don't start the same way against those bottom teams. Against these top teams, we're playing them desperate right from the drop of the puck. We're playing down to other levels. We start out slow and let them take the game to us.

We have chaos in the street. We have people who are desperate. They are hungry, they haven't slept, they've taken desperate measures,

We have to look at this as a great challenge for us because they're going to be playing pretty desperate hockey. They've got their backs to the wall and they have to win. This would be a big win for us if we're able to pull it off.

With the Giants desperate for a victory, it was an obvious strategy for them to pitch around the Tigers' most potent hitter.

We came out flat and didn't get the start we wanted and they jumped on us. I don't know. Toronto had to wait through the ceremony too. Both teams had the same wait before the game and that shouldn't have been a factor at all. They're desperate and they want to catch us in the standings.

We have thousands of clubs desperate for cash. We want to put more into them...we can't do that in an environment where our income is going down by 40%.

We have thousands of clubs desperate for cash. We want to put more into them... we can't do that in an environment where our income is going down by 40%,

We need medical supplies, please, ... We're in desperate need of MASH units.

We haven't been beating top-10 teams. We felt kind of desperate to get a win. We can beat anybody; we just haven't been doing it.

The Premiership is the only club competition I haven't won since I joined Liverpool. I'm desperate for us to do it.

We are in desperate need of your experience, investment and your moral support for the effort to fight terrorism.

We are in desperate need of immigration reform. I hope the House has seen all the rallies and protests around the nation and remembers the issue is very important and people support a fair immigration reform.

We are in desperate need of immediate help. For most of us, the profit margin has become nonexistent.

We are in desperate need of Arab aid.

We are in desperate need for parking; students are having to walk across campus on crutches or while sick because there is nowhere close for them to park.

We're not talking about using it to build new roads or dams or power lines. We're talking about giving it to businessmen who promise to build something that they'll profit from and leaders that are so desperate to rebuild that they are willing to do it.

We are recruiters; we try to raise the awareness of the desperate need for more foster and adoptive parents in our area. By contacting parents directly or enlisting other agencies, government officials and corporations, we try to get them to help enlist potential parents.

We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table, ... When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families.

What we have seen in the last six months points to the desperate need for a Green alternative to be heard.

We played a little desperate in the third period. We didn't play with that desperation in the first and second period.

We're not giving up in here. We've raised our level of intensity and we have to be desperate every shift. And we've been able to do that.

This script is a real thriller that pulled me in right from the beginning. The 'what if' premise delivers on the edge of your seat anticipation, and is a perfect fit for the channel. Joe Miller's journey, fueled by a father's desperate search for his missing daughter, is compelling storytelling that will truly engage the audience.

We're at this point right now where we have to get it going. There's nothing really than can discourage us anymore. We're a desperate team, and I think we kind of showed that desperation.

We were a little bit more desperate today.

We were a desperate team out there. We needed a win. Defensively, offensively, we just never gave up. We never gave up. Everything they did we countered.

We began the process of debriefing each other, sharing what our unique experiences were, ... I know the mayor felt very desperate in his hour of need.

Desperate ills need desperate remedies.

The fact that they decided to go ahead with two casinos shows that they are pretty desperate to bring in dollars. It must have given them a lot of heartburn to reverse their opposition to vice.

In many situations that seemed desperate, the artillery has been a most vital factor.

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

I'm sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

So the challenge for us is to live in such a way that we are radically dependent on and desperate for the power that only God can provide.

We should play desperate all the time -- why not? This team is so hard on itself that sometimes we put extra pressure on ourselves. Maybe we shouldn't because it costs us sometimes.

We knew we needed this game and came out with a desperate attitude. We hit our shots. We got great, great defense. That's what we need.

We only played well when we thought we were desperate and we thought we had a chance to lose. We can't wait and we have to have that mentality from the get go.

When people are desperate to sell you buy. When they are desperate to buy you sell. He who waits until he is in the arena to plan has planned too late.

The rebuilding of the Gulf Coast should create economic opportunities for its residents, not an opportunity to take advantage of people desperate to rebuild their lives,

We thought he was somebody who probably had nothing to lose and was pretty desperate after being a suspect in shooting kids and women, you know he's not going to be afraid of police.

This time round, there's ... a good mix of youth and experience. It could be the likes of David Beckham and Gary Neville's last World Cup, so I think everyone's going to be desperate this time round to deliver.

We believe Mr. Astorga is desperate and on the run and very unpredictable.

We believe Gary Hall is key to this case . . . and we have a desperate need in this case to conduct our (pretrial) investigation.

This service will bring immense relief to the thousands of people who have their relatives across the Line of Control and are desperate to know about their welfare.

This was a huge confidence booster for us. We ended the three-game losing streak which included two heart-breaking one-point losses. We were desperate for a win. But we also knew Central Connecticut State would be tough mentally. They were. I just think we made some key rebounds and made some foul shots when we needed to.

Expectations inspire us to live for every second we pass of our life span.But there are moments which we cannot bare,we cannot be patient and we are desperate to loose our lives.Humanity is the tolerating everything in life and overcome all the difficulties we have to face.The best decision is to postpone to decide on things of life,when desperate thoughts weakens our minds.This makes us to protect humanity in us.

But people are desperate and there are people, including many of my constituents, who need any kind of relief. I am not going to stand between them and these $400 cheques.

Both sides will be desperate to gain a psychological edge because we could meet in a few weeks in the Scottish Qualifying Cup.

The Government (in Algeria) is desperate to get projects like this.

The government's subversion of parliamentary procedure, in order to get this bill passed, is further evidence of its desperate desire to silence all independent reporting in Zimbabwe,

We see it as a desperate attempt by a gubernatorial candidate who is behind in the polls and has missed every mark it has set for itself.

We're teams in similar situations, ... We're pretty evenly matched (and), if you look at our records, we're both desperate for a win.

You cannot do this without the authorization of the father, ... I sincerely think that this boy is at risk in the hands of desperate people, and the government of the United States should not be running this risk.

We've had a great build up and now I'm excited about the new season, the same as everyone else at Edinburgh. We're just desperate to play games and desperate to put into action the fitness training we've gone through.

We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.

There could hardly be a more desperate predicament than to fall through the ice and have no one around to help you.

We have a desperate need to update the antiquated facility. We have outstanding faculty researchers there ... this will give them state-of-the-art technology to do their work.

What is it with these hamburger chains? Are they so desperate to pump up lagging sales that they're resorting to vulgarity and strip teases to gain attention? ... It's like Carl's Jr., Hardee's and Burger King have perverted seventh-grade boys running their ad campaigns.

What I would really love is to be on a sitcom again, ... Everybody talks about Desperate Housewives - that's one show, and they're all gorgeous. But where's the Roseanne ? Where's the real women who are funny? That's where I come in.

We got a fresh start here tonight. We're a desperate team and we need the wins.

You have to be a little desperate when you're a man down and more desperate when you are two men down.