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When you pick up somebody like this in a desperate time and have him come through the way he has, I don't think anybody could've expected it.

What crushed my soul was hanging out with bitter, desperate comics backstage. They're a different breed than the bitter yet eager psyches in the wings of an improv theatre. Struggling stand-ups have externalized self-loathing into an art form. They're a hunching, quaking, unshaven lot.

We've been somewhat of a desperate team for a long time. I think we need to continue to play that way. Like I said before, we are still the same team that, seven weeks ago, not a lot of people were giving us a chance.

We weren't happy going down 4-2, the players were visibly upset. Maybe we need to play desperate more often because they really responded.

We were playing a team that was obviously playing desperate and you could see that play in them. We're loose and we played aggressive.

We were like desperate animals trying to survive, and animals are most dangerous when they are in a snare.

When all is said and done, it looks like the Palestinians have been massively robbed and abused, and are engaged in a desperate struggle for survival and liberation. Israel, on the other hand, would appear to be conducting an imperialistic campaign of oppression supported and substantially armed by the most powerful nation on earth.

What's happening here is the president is desperate to spend more money, ... Late Edition.

We had the wrong attitude to start the game. They play a heavy game, they play an old NHL game and we wanted to play around the game instead of plow through it. When you give a team that's in a desperate state like Toronto some hope, they're going to follow through.

When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.'

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

Very often we see traffickers taking advantage of people's desperate situation, moving into a situation where families can be persuaded or compelled to part with their children.

You got it back in hugs, you got it back in tears, you got it back in words of thanks that only a person who is desperate can express.

You look at it, you're stuck with 400 or you look at it as we have an opportunity to help 400 fellow Americans in desperate need,

This sounds to me like the ploy of a desperate man who is down in the polls.

To be fair, he has a personal history of charitable works like this, so it's not as if this is some person making a desperate effort to rehabilitate his career by suddenly reshaping himself as a philanthropist. The problem is we live in such a cynical age that it really doesn't matter what his intentions are; this will be viewed in cynical terms.

Even the biggest hits, even The Sopranos on HBO, even Desperate Housewives is 20 million viewers. We're in a country of . . . 297 million people, almost 300 million. That's a pretty small chunk of it.

Berlusconi is desperate and he's latching on to what he can to deflect attention away from the economy; it's the most prominent chink in the armor. That's why he's jumped on the wiretapping scandals.

Bloomingdale's could boost sales 5% if it put up an ad for a one-day sweater sale in my building at lunchtime. Everyone in the elevator will see it because they're desperate to not have to look at anyone else.

Everybody is desperate to win. We're desperate, too. We're going to come out like our backs are against the wall, too.

Everybody in LA is really snobby, ... They were all like, 'We gotta go - on our way to do RenŽe Zellweger's house.' It was a typical LA experience. If you want to go to a restaurant in LA, you have to be on Desperate Housewives .

As the unemployment rate has fallen, the opportunities for older workers has improved. Employers have been desperate for choices and they are somewhat more receptive these days to hiring older workers than they have been in the past.

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Employers are desperate to do something about health care costs, and most will move in this direction.

Earle and his staff engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge

Each year, over 900 young women in East Texas find themselves in a desperate situation and faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Every year East Texas shows its overwhelming support for area crisis pregnancy centers by participating in the annual KSWP/KAVX World's Largest Baby Shower.

There's quite a lot of promotional activity out there, more than last year. Retailers are desperate to maximize their footfall and recognize that in order to do that they need to give people a significant incentive to come into their stores.

The response time and all of the rest of it -- I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that people are black. It has to do with the fact that people are poor and desperate and left in a situation where they didn't have a way out,

There was a bunch of people outside of a club downtown. Somebody tried to say we wanted to rob them for $5 for some pizza. I'm not that desperate for pizza or $5.

There's stuff to build on. We needed to clean up our play in a few areas, but that's a desperate team playing at home and we still were able to overcome that. The bottom line is you want to win these games, and we won. So the glass is half full right now.

There's nothing you can do when you panic, you just try to keep working harder. We know we are in a desperate situation, and we know now that it's crunch time. We can say that we are fighting it and getting our chances. We just have to find a way to get it done out on the ice.

The Times will not comment on the meeting, but one can only imagine the president?s desperation. The problem was not that the disclosures would compromise national security, as Bush claimed at his press conference. ...No, Bush was desperate to keep the Times from running this important story?which the paper had already inexplicably held for a year?because he knew that it would reveal him as a law-breaker.

The worst part is he fanned on the shot. It's frustrating. I committed when he faked the slap shot and then I was in a desperate place. Stuff like that happens though.

The whole long-distance industry will be getting shaken up. Nobody's sure how desperate MCI will be to regain business,

These are very desperate conditions that we're in now. These are the wrong conditions for the use of fireworks of any kind under any circumstances.

There will be test cases that make their way to court but I think the government was desperate that this not be one of them, because they would know as well as I that these laws allow people to be terminated and offered their jobs back for lower pay.

The same Bill Welch who ran a vicious smear campaign against Susan Combs in 1992 . . . is once again resorting to last-minute desperate attacks by casting stones at a husband and father of seven over debt . . . pathetic.

I've walked up to female students and asked whether they would be interested in playing golf. That's how desperate we are.

I've never known a transfer happen quite so quickly. It was all done within 24 hours, and that was largely because of Robbie's passion to rejoin the club. He really was that desperate to come back.

I've never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I'm a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I'm really Desperate Dan.

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

These scams target very vulnerable people. They prey on people who are plagued by poor credit -- people who may be desperate to develop a clean credit history so they can get a loan, get a job or buy a car.

These women are not politicians, but ordinary Iraqis who are desperate to see an end to the violence and are taking great personal risk to come to the US. It's a rare opportunity to hear from Iraqis themselves, and we hope that US officials will listen.

The situation is desperate and it's getting worse and worse by the hour, with thousands more crossing the border from Kosovo into Albania predominantly, but also into Macedonia and Montenegro .

The (student) had to get some stitches but he'll be okay. Regardless, we have a weapon involved where desperate people are doing desperate things in broad daylight. Students need to be vigilant.

The success of Desperate Housewives does not mean people are looking for another soap opera, ... Good characters that they look forward to seeing week after week.

The things which have been happening in the detention centre show you how desperate these people are. The trouble stems from the detention.

SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.His bad opponent's ""facts"" he sweeps away, And drags his sophistry to light of day; Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort To falsehood of so desperate a sort. Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast, He lies most lightly who the least is pressed. --Polydore Smith

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

Perhaps in the third period they were the more desperate team, and, as a result, they got it done and we didn't." ()

Our approach going in was they were a desperate team and if we could get of to a good start we could get them to press. It's certainly a lot easier, a lot less taxing to play with the lead.

People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.

People are very desperate this time of year right after the holidays when they may not have realized how much they have spent. But you want to make sure that where you turn is actually helping you and not putting you further in debt.

Of course, we are not asking anyone to do anything that would prevent the provision of aid or even the opening of an account when people are in such a desperate situation. We clearly understand the situation that is a result of the hurricanes and we're going to be reasonable and flexible.

After winning the double, he is desperate to come here.

a desperate move made with the hope of eliciting some sympathy from the court to permit him to spend some part of the remainder of his life outside of jail.

After battling months of snow and icy roads, your car is undoubtedly in desperate need of some serious tender-loving care. A cleaner engine, for example, can give your car better performance -- ensuring less hesitation and smoother acceleration.

The most recent manipulations of the military commission procedures represent a desperate attempt to salvage the failed commission process and a confirmation that Mr. Hicks will not receive a fair trial.

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.

Companies are under desperate pressure to shed these operations,

As a team, we played our most desperate hockey.

The bottom line is when people are running and know that it's down to the hour they will often get desperate and twist information to confuse and mislead voters.

Audiences are so desperate to find a film they like, they're just hanging on to the same movies.

That's when people start to get more desperate and are more willing to throw an elbow here or there.

That tells us the national AFL-CIO is in a desperate effort to protect its position in Kentucky and has very little regard for the welfare of the majority of people in this state. We fully expected this.

You've seen how ugly it's been and how desperate we needed to win a game. Hopefully, this will get us going.

You see these shuffling rows of shiny faces, waiting for their turn, so they're very dedicated to the program and desperate to know what it is they've got - so often, they have no idea.

You saw how a desperate team can play. They were all over us on the ice. That is a pretty good team over there. As a player you don't want the season to end. You want to keep playing.

Your committees need to reject this desperate attempt to revive this barely effective drug.

You put a desperate team on the power play nine times in the first two periods, and you are going to get what you earn. The referees were a non-factor tonight. It was all us.

This is a system in desperate need, ... and people are rightly upset and distressed.

This is nothing more than a desperate smoke screen. Santorum should take a closer look at his own campaign finances.

This desperate attack has more holes than a pasta strainer. This is another paid attack by union critics.

This case is about folks trying to make money off of people in a desperate situation. That's not right. You come to people's rescue when they are in a desperate situation. You don't target them as something you can make money off of.

This is a desperate situation. As you can see we are making progress in the more populated areas but it is so hard to reach the others,

This is a desperate attempt to remake their faltering image.

This is a critical moment for Iraq. We call on all Iraqis to unite against terror and violence. Coming together in unity to condemn this barbaric act, and working for Iraq's salvation will be the right response. This desperate and despicable act shows that terrorists stop at nothing and care for nothing.

This is a crazy culture. Absolutely nutty. You see it reflected everywhere you look, the desperate search -- who are we, what are we, can we ever make if in the hip world? On the scene, on the go, in the know.

They (the guidelines) are designed as a desperate attempt to fend off real regulation of drug ads.

A lot of the food we sent over with the firefighters they shared with desperate citizens of Mississippi, who were hungry, who had hungry children. They shared what they had.

A lot of the auditions in L.A. do feel like cattle calls, with hundreds of people. I started to lose sight of what I wanted, because you get so desperate for a job that you stop caring whether it's a good script. You're just pleased to be testing for something - but then if you get it, you're doing it for potentially six years, so it's a lottery.

They played really desperate and we didn't match that.

They played like a team that was desperate to win and we played like a team that was standing around. Not battling and taking penalties. You win and lose as a group. No question tonight it's a total team effort as far as the loss went. We had no battle and had no fight.

They played like a desperate team who hadn't had a win for a while.

They played desperate hockey. They were especially desperate in the second period when they really came after me.

They played better than us. Toronto was much better than us. ... We weren't as desperate as them.

They played a little more desperate than we did.

They outplayed us today boys. I'm proud of my unit and I'll take them. We just didn't have it today in the right places and they did. We weren't executing a couple things that I felt like we needed to execute. We weren't attacking as well as I wanted to attack. We done that in the past and we've kind of grown into it. We just couldn't get the attack and then we got desperate in our attack.

They don't play with enthusiasm until they get desperate. They've got to get desperate right away. They've got to come out with passion.

There was desperation coming into the game. It was desperate. We were desperate after we flew back from Miami. In the NFL, if you go down 0-2, it's bad.

There was conversation and discussion at the table, a lot of it heated. He had a strong belief that Sunday night at 9 belonged to Desperate Housewives .

This looks like another attempt by the king to fool the people. It is a desperate attempt to save the regime.

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

The research that we've conducted shows that we don't expect large throngs of folks to suddenly find themselves in a desperate situation.

There's always emotion when you play the Toronto Maple Leafs. It's a big rivalry and they bring their crowd with them and it's a good game every time. I know they're desperate and trying to fight for a playoff spot so they're going to be hungry and we should be ready.

As we've all seen, we have Americans in desperate need of help, ... No MLS team has even worn orange and the more unique and valuable an auction item is, the more money it can potentially raise.

The more they figure you're desperate to attend, the less likely it is they will improve your package, because they figure you'll go anyway,

It's kind of a sad place. It's just such a zoo that you almost can't get anything done. There's always somebody knocking on your door or calling you on the phone or stopping you in the lobby because they are desperate for jobs.