In desperation, he experimented with fasting, yoga, Chinese herbal medicine.
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The Republican Congress has been in desperation mood for months.
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"Can you just pray over him?" she cried in desperation.
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And in desperation, they are taking matters into their own hands.
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I looked around in desperation and locked eyes with a man.
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She added that her defense team in Seoul resigned in desperation.
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"This woman may have been reaching out in desperation," she said.
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The king, in desperation, turns to a wise woman for advice.
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Finally, in desperation, you glance at your watch and notice the time.
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So he hit the phones in desperation to find a new lead.
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The Giants (77-67) will enter the afternoon affair in desperation mode.
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So, in desperation, they are predictably looking lashing out at President Trump.
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Kelly Overton as Cynthia Smith in 'Desperation', rocking the pink hair look.
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Heinz, in desperation, breaks into the chemist's lab and steals the drug.
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In desperation, she filed a complaint to Samsung's chairman Lee Kun-hee.
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In desperation mode, Nebraska answered by marching 75 yards in 92 plays.
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In desperation, the group trudged over to Julius' on West 10th Street.
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But it is only in desperation that I go to this place.
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Geoffrey Corbis was an alias he created in desperation in recent years.
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In desperation its CEO and co-founder, Liu Yan, turned to live-streaming.
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In desperation, many single men resort to extreme measures to secure a mate.
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Yet the residents of both communities shared the nightmare of fleeing in desperation.
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" In desperation, she "pulled out a pencil and notebook and began to write.
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In desperation, he asked his son to come home from college to help.
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In desperation, people climb atop trains in Nanjing to escape the conflict, Feb.
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In desperation, some park on the shoulder, a ramp, or an abandoned gas station.
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In desperation, he called around hoping it was someone else with the same name.
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In desperation, the alien injects Shepherd with a serum that gives him superhuman powers.
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"Finally in desperation," Ventura took the person to Colorado, where weed has been legalized.
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So in desperation, I found the prettiest view of the Colorado river, Congress Bridge.
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Hundreds of English fans ran for their lives, many clambering over barriers in desperation.
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"Ask your dad!" moms have begun to cry out, more in desperation than hope.
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Until you'd feel your little body roasting, forcing you to scurry out in desperation?
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But they didn't stop there — in desperation, the Children turned to the nuclear option.
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In desperation, Khamenei is also now attempting to send thousands of Afghans to Syria.
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The regional school director says she heard stories of women turning to prostitution in desperation.
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Many clinics are understaffed, lengthening waits and causing patients to visit emergency wards in desperation.
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It turns out these microbes use hooks to cling on in desperation while we pee.
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Not one that we should just throw our arms in the air in desperation against.
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No weapon was involved in the crime, committed in desperation to seek drugs, Deeney says.
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Some waitlisted patients, in desperation, seek the services of middlemen to arrange organs for money.
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In desperation, Woods had a fourth back surgery — this time, spinal fusion in April 2017.
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Her grades, and therefore her entire future, are jeopardized, and Romeo, in desperation, lends assistance.
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In desperation, doctors gave her a drug that by all accounts should not have helped.
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In desperation, Pavel Pereverzev, the justice minister, tried scapegoating the Bolsheviks for Russia's dismal plight.
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In desperation, some people plunged into the Aegean waters and tried to swim to safety.
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Women who choose abortion often do so in desperation and then deeply regret such a decision.
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One evening, in desperation, a colleague of Righetti's warmed one of the fragments in a microwave.
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Now, in desperation, some of these stars are turning to their renegade younger peers for salvation.
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In one of the play's most memorable scenes, Proctor, in desperation, stands up for his name.
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In desperation, Els switched to a left-hand-low putting grip, and saw signs of progress.
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Sixteen years went by, and in desperation, they showed all their evidence to Dr. James Brussel.
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Half in desperation, he reached for a surefire national sedative: Let the French talk it out.
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But lowering rates is rooted in desperation, and investors may want to carefully consider history and context.
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These are people that have fled homes destroyed by war and travelled in desperation to seek safety.
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Ebata evades a few bombs thrown in desperation, and then the bell rings and scores are announced.
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Harris, in desperation, had told her little boy that there was no Santa Claus for poor children.
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Some remain stranded in shelters, and others have returned, in desperation, to the stench of unrepaired homes.
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In desperation, we hear of learned scientists wanting to redesign our bodies or to eliminate death entirely.
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With his head in his hands, King bowed over his kitchen table and prayed aloud in desperation.
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In desperation, hospitals have begun to revive old antibiotics that were discarded because they were too toxic.
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In desperation, I reported Mom to the D.M.V. and they called her in for a road test.
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In desperation, I drove to all the pharmacies in my area, searching for help and the lowest price.
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In desperation, the Royal Navy has commandeered hundreds of private boats to aid in the evacuation of Dunkirk.
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Thousands of clients lost savings of a lifetime, including a pensioner who hanged himself in desperation last December.
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Intensity grew and the game turned more physical, testing the officials as bodies banged and sprawled in desperation.
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Or perhaps he believed he was immune, or he felt the opportunity slipping away and acted in desperation.
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But then, instead of mesmerizing him, she grabs him, hangs on him, falls to the ground in desperation.
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Best is Sarah Beckham-Turner, wry even in desperation as Harper, her voice cool yet vibrating with vulnerability.
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In desperation one morning I contacted Dignitas, the Swiss organization that helps terminally ill people end their lives.
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Rusalka goes to Jezibaba in desperation to ask for a potion that can turn her into a human.
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In desperation, I took on two unpaid internships in succession, hoping to gain experience and land a job afterward.
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I had tweeted Chrissy in desperation at the store and scoured the shelves looking for no sugar added options.
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When we meet these women, they are all in desperation mode, each in her own mini-vortex of crisis.
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It seeks to cope with this world through humor, but it still screams out in desperation with us all.
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With that in mind, the six teams saddled with an 0-2 record will probably be in desperation mode.
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In desperation, many fathers and sons log and burn the edge of the national park for timber and farmland.
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Trailing by 13 points on Sunday morning, Europe's captain, Darren Clarke, had in desperation top-loaded his singles lineup.
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In desperation, the family made cardboard fans for him to use to try to move air around his face.
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In desperation, Nuttall turned to a "wonder clinic" in Germany, starting a six-session course of immunotherapy in May 2017.
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The legal ports of entry are over capacity; more migrants will, in desperation, seek unlawful entry into the United States.
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In desperation, Ms. Radow's husband consulted a physician friend, who suggested testing for lymphoma — and the diagnosis was finally made.
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Declining rural incomes have prompted mass protests by farmers, and some have been driven to suicide in desperation at their poverty.
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The usage of social media then skyrocketed as a result, with people turning to the larger crowd in desperation for assistance.
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Sometimes, in desperation, a patient will bring me plastic bags bulging with prescription drugs and ask me to sort them out.
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In desperation, some have suggested that the supply of medicines should no longer be the exclusive preserve of big drug firms.
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In desperation, he lofted a pass downfield that Falcons safety Ricardo Allen plucked out of the air and returned 45 yards.
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In desperation, Hamas agreed to hand administrative responsibility to a Palestinian Authority government that was dominated by the rival Fatah party.
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In "desperation mode" he started running back to his dorm but realized there was no way he was going to make it.
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Struggling to adapt to the changing conditions, the Neanderthals turned to cannibalism in desperation, according to a provocative and timely new study.
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It also in many ways presaged the celeb-reality complex, though, crucially, it caught Madonna at a career apex, not in desperation.
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When democratic capitalism is managed in ways that fail to provide good jobs, working people will turn in desperation toward authoritarian solutions.
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General Hifter's air force bombed Mitiga International Airport on Monday, possibly in desperation, as his other forces retreated on several nearby fronts.
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When the patients who became addicted were finally cut off from these pills, they turned in desperation to their illegal cousin, heroin.
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Bogut's 3-pointer, his first since March 8, 2013, came in desperation from 24 feet as the 24-second clock was winding down.
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At one notorious Apple supplier, the company installed "suicide nets" to try to prevent workers from flinging themselves off the building in desperation.
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In desperation, Kim decides to call Kardashian's expectant fiancée — who has only recently broken down the walls between her and the famous family.
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Image: Stephen Nowland, Emory UniversityWith conventional medicines in short supply during the Civil War, the Confederacy turned to plant-based alternatives in desperation.
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In desperation, sometimes I took the tests apart, even though you're not supposed to—wondering if I might find a line that way.
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After trying pills, cold showers and assorted quack remedies to control his debilitating allergies, he decided in desperation to visit the salt mine.
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In desperation, he calls on the one other figure with unlimited powers of gift distribution: Hanukkah Harry, embodied by the incomparable Jon Lovitz.
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She's approaching the possible Final Days in desperation, hoping to find — and most likely use — the physicists' Departure Machine before it's too late.
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After being tethered to Trump's wrist, the eagle leaped off his arm in terror, dangling pathetically with its wings splayed out in desperation.
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In desperation, she handed her phone to her mother at the beginning of this week so she would have several hundred fewer distractions.
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My bathroom cabinet is full of mud masks, anti-aging creams, and one $50 serum purchased in desperation the night before a big date.
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In desperation, as Mike began to emotionally struggle with his condition, his friends reached out to Destiny streamer who specializes in guiding folks there.
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More sustainable pricing means creators won't have to fear Patreon selling out in desperation to someone like Facebook that might neglect or exploit them.
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In desperation, as Mike began to emotionally struggle with his condition, his friends reached out to Destiny streamer who specializes in guiding folks there.
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In desperation, Elizabeth, who had grown up in a devout Christian family, began attending a small Baptist church in Mill Valley, California, in 1964.
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In desperation, the state Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) — the semi-autonomous state agency that owns and manages the park — decided to close it.
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He almost cries out in desperation as each person around the table takes a biscuit, or even two, while he hasn't even had one.
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Perhaps in desperation, his small air force also resorted to bombing the last remaining airport available for civilians, threatening to severely isolate the city.
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Bloodied rags, a naked baby doll, and a pair of wings remind the audience that the desperate Gretchen killed her illegitimate child in desperation.
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Finally, in desperation, they went to their neighbor, Buzz Newton, who was known for his miserliness, and asked him to co-sign a loan.
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In desperation, the 23-year-old took a step he had never even contemplated before: He offered his customers the option of paying electronically.
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The company began losing $1 billion a month and started cleaving off limbs in desperation, eliminating or selling its Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and Hummer brands.
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He's seen hungry-eyed adults fighting over TVs and parents crying out in desperation that, without a particular toy, their kid's Christmas will be ruined.
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Mattea had met Vinar several years before at a choral workshop, and in desperation, she got her number from a friend and called her up.
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Having grown up in a hand-to-mouth household, I felt incredible pain for the vast majority of Americans who were knee-deep in desperation.
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Me'Lisa Sellers, who will graduate in 2018 with roughly $135,000 in debt, said that she once went to a Harvard financial aid office in desperation.
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If the replacement boss, in desperation, then hires some new people, people willing to listen to her, the elders will dislike her all the more.
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"In desperation, the DCCC recruited a last-minute candidate, a former administration political appointee," said campaign spokesman Alan Byrd, referencing the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
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If we look out in desperation and see only closed doors, what's to stop us from thinking there's no place for us in this world?
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But at the service, a few rosary Hail Marys in and I was nudging my husband in desperation, mouthing my urgent need to find a bathroom.
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"In desperation, they review every movement they made around a child to help them figure out whether their actions were inappropriate or not," she tells me.
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In desperation, they've become the tiresome cowards they accuse their critics of being—and that comics like Bruce, who built the contemporary comedy world, never were.
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Yes, you can easily share to a variety of apps and social media, but I hunted in desperation for a way to simply save my sketches locally.
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Their Aunt Ann's party was in the tiny town of Edgerton, Minnesota, which was about 200 miles away, so in desperation, they tried to get an Uber.
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Another migrant fell from the top floor of a building he was sheltering in, and another set himself on fire and killed himself last week in desperation.
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With the Warriors attempting to deny all possible inbounds passes, Thomas snuck behind the defense for a layup that put Golden State in desperation mode once again.
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In desperation I tried Star Wars Battlefront, possibly the most visually advanced game out there today and one that I've been playing on Xbox One for months.
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Make no mistake: Words matter, and these words are meant to demean and dehumanize those coming here in desperation, seeking a better, safer world for their families.
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In desperation, Ratcliffe, a 41-year-old accountant from north London, has now decided to go public with the story -- against the advice of the UK Foreign Office.
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When his body was brought to her, she went through his pockets in desperation and found 2,000 afghanis, about $28, which was the only money he left her.
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In desperation, they engaged in some sort of protest — the nature of which might take a few days to become clear — because they just want their saga to end.
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Scotland pushed forward in desperation and finally got their reward when substitute McArthur guided in a close-range header after Callum Paterson's cross was flicked on by Grant Hanley.
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Longtime fans are fond of the "Coral" meme, named for how Andrew Lincoln pronounces the boy's name with his fake Southern accent, typically in desperation over his son's safety.
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But his breaking point came when a man offered to pay to sleep with his wife — and in desperation she took the man's cellphone number to make the arrangements.
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When the victim tweeted to Zelle Support to help in desperation, Zelle only responded by sharing a link that explains why Zelle should only be used with family and friends.
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A video of the incident shows the woman waving her arms at the ship in desperation before sinking down to her knees on the Nassau, Bahamas, pier on April 21.
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They are patients in severe pain who find their access to pain medication curtailed or cut off; who suffer in desperation; and who turn to heroin, fentanyl, or even suicide.
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But the spark is just this chance meeting between Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, in Akron, [Ohio], in 1935—two talented people, likeminded people, who find each other in desperation.
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And adding insult to injury, dozens of Russian athletes were forced to wait in desperation for a last-minute decision on whether they'd be allowed to join in at all.
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Ever since the University of California used a similar play in the final seconds of an upset of Stanford in 103, teams around the nation have employed it in desperation.
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The celebration resumed, and when it ended, Germany pushed forward in desperation, with Neuer, always eager to roam widely, abandoning his goal altogether and turning himself into an extra midfielder.
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At one point, in desperation, Quijano actually pointed this out to the candidates: "The people at home cannot understand either one of you when you speak over each other," she pleaded.
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We industrious humans, in desperation, fashioned an earthen imitation from fire and steel, refusing to let our planet—even a barely recognizable one—become lost to the cold vacuum of space.
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He disarmed Groth, the world's fastest recorded server, with a clinical returning game, showing his guile by lobbing the 6-ft-4in (1.93m) Australian repeatedly when he lumbered forward in desperation.
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In the most recent rally farmers from around the country marched on Delhi, some carrying the skulls and photos of those they say have killed themselves in desperation at their poverty.
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I'm autistic and can't function in a normal job in English, let alone French, so, in desperation, I insisted on going back to sex work, just to buy us some time.
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"What frightens me is that pregnant women rushing to us in desperation want to have their pregnancies terminated," said Hungarian geneticist Imre Feiffer in June 1986, according to the LA Times.
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Trump and US officials have since tried in desperation to sway Erdogan from shelling and displacing thousands of Kurds, but have so far only succeeded in gaining a short-term ceasefire.
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Old women and young girls were stripped and searched for evidence of third nipples — on which Satan's imps were thought to suck — and tortured until they confessed, implicating others in desperation.
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Although these abuses are certainly less egregious than those committed by post-bellum Southern Democrats, the underlying logic is similar: Parties representing fearful, declining majorities turn, in desperation, to minority rule.
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" A trio of top Democrats in the House Tuesday pushed back on the Republican aspersions of the FBI, saying they were done in "desperation" and "directly at odds with the facts.
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With the Redskins in desperation mode in the game's final seconds, Eagles linebacker Nigel Bradham returned a Haskins fumble 47 yards for a touchdown with no time left on the clock.
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Originally appears in: Rose Madder Also appears in: Desperation and The Regulators Often, Stephen King will bring back one of his main characters in a smaller, cameo role in a later novel.
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Karl was required to give up his laptop, and, in desperation, he called his old university roommate, Keston, an accountant, told him everything, and tried not to cry during their preliminary conversation.
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In Philadelphia, the penetrating soprano Lauren Snouffer is more poised and self-possessed, more equal to her husband (the baritone Mark Stone, booming even in desperation) in presence if not in rights.
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In desperation, Puerto Ricans are bathing and washing their clothes in rivers that have raw sewage pouring into them, the Associated Press reported, exposing them to bacteria like Leptospira, which causes leptospirosis.
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That Neuer was way up the pitch, trying in desperation to conjure something, when South Korea rolled the ball into an empty net for its second goal summed up the German humiliation.
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In desperation, she phoned Pressel, who started a foundation 10 years ago to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer, which claimed the life of Pressel's mother when Pressel was 15.
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Another was a gentle cross-court volley that, combined with a preceding drop shot and lob, left Flipkens sprinting up and down the court, hitting a shot between her legs in desperation.
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Another was a gentle cross-court volley that, combined with a preceding drop shot and lob, left Flipkens sprinting up and down the court, hitting a shot between her legs in desperation.
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In 2002, normally moderate voters turned in desperation to Mr Uribe, a rancher-politician who promised to hound the FARC to defeat and, to popular acclaim, presided over a big security build-up.
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In the most recent rally, farmers from around the country marched on the Indian capital, some carrying the skulls and photos of those they say have killed themselves in desperation at their poverty.
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Ms. Merkel also said it was essential to work with African nations where people are experiencing hardship and turmoil, so that they can prosper there rather than turning to Europe's shores in desperation.
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He encourages them to seek out help from organizations like the International Rescue Committee, recalling a refugee who approached him in desperation, saying that he feared homelessness if he didn't find work immediately.
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"Five years ago he was not a jihadist ... In desperation, in isolation, in alienation, he found the conviction to follow the path of radicalisation," Italy's anti-terrorism chief Franco Roberti told la Repubblica newspaper.
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"Five years ago he was not a jihadist ... In desperation, in isolation, in alienation, he found the conviction to follow the path of radicalization," Italy's anti-terrorism chief Franco Roberti told la Repubblica newspaper.
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When patients can get the money together to purchase these items, they become targets -- hospital rooms are not safe from thieves looking to sell medication on the black market, or fellow patients in desperation.
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Tickets for ringside seats at Dempsey-Gibbons (which had to be purchased from the Shelby tobacconist) were fifty dollars and by the time the fighters entered the ring, Kearns had slashed prices in desperation.
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But with the upcoming winter heating season, Chinese utilities have turned to the spot market in desperation to cover themselves in order to meet surging demand, chartering tankers from as far away as Norway.
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Unable to afford high cash bails, many of my clients' families were driven in desperation to the bail bondsman industry and, as a result, will be paying their bails off for years to come.
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When he finally admitted, in September 2013, that he had been involved with numerous trans women, his "confession" was stilted on the arbitrary technicalities that men, in desperation, rely on to salvage their lost masculinity.
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She initially appears in King's 1995 novel Rose Madder in a supporting role (she befriends the main character, Rose, in a women's shelter), then returns the following year for a much bigger part in Desperation.
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" Immigration: In a July tweet on the migrant crisis at the southern border, Steyer wrote that the Trump administration has "desensitized the Border Patrol to a shocking degree and made immigrants in desperation 'The Enemy.
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Patients who can get the money together to buy these items become targets of crime -- hospital rooms are not safe from thieves looking to sell medication on the black market, or fellow patients in desperation.
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"The amount of time you spend in desperation on a topic that has plummeted you to 13th place in viewership ranking across America, more people watch Nick at Nite cartoons than CNN today," Gorka said.
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Rachel goes to the apartment of Presidentrix creator Alejandra Lopez in desperation, walking in unannounced for the first time in their long business relationship, and encounters Lopez's wife, Sofia, a WASP stay-at-home mom.
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The next year, in desperation, he sold his car, a Soviet-era Volga sedan, for about $5,000, and used the proceeds to buy a defunct dish-soap factory outside Moscow, setting out to make shampoo.
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To be clear: Drastic dose reductions for patients who are physically dependent on opioid therapy too often causes individuals to turn in desperation to far more dangerous and addictive illicit drugs like fentanyl and heroin.
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One night after a show at the Morris Civic Auditorium in South Bend, Indiana, he turned in desperation to Saul, his "fixer," the man who always seemed capable of combing out even the most tangled messes.
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But some libraries are being proactive about both the way they provide access and in contacting at-risk populations where they are instead of waiting for them to come to a crowded central branch in desperation.
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Two of the 17 died after jumping out of windows in desperation after failing to find emergency exits, added the officer, who declined to be named as he is not authorized to talk to the media.
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Wade Wilson, has a healing ability that rivals that of Wolverine and looks like what would happen if psoriasis had psoriasis — the result of an experiment, performed in desperation in response to terminal cancer, gone awry.
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After about two minutes of sprinting after them in desperation (the seeing-eye dog does not give a shit, and thankfully he's on my heels the whole time), they both trot back to me like nothing happened.
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As my husband was in hospice, my aunt, who was watching Alex, called me in desperation to see if I could find some place, any place, that carried the stuff — or else the kid would apparently starve.
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In desperation, she turns to the maegi Mirri Maz Duur (Mia Soteriou) — however, Mirri Maz Duur double-crosses Dany, and uses her unborn child Rhaego as sacrifice for a ritual meant to bring Drogo back to life.
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" To CNN's Alisyn Camerota: "The amount of time you spend in desperation on a topic that has plummeted you to 13th place in viewership ranking across America — more people watch Nick at Nite cartoons than CNN today.
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The elimination of the last IS stronghold in Baghouz brings to a close a grueling final battle that stretched across several weeks and saw thousands of people flee the territory and surrender in desperation, and hundreds killed.
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Over 4,000 migrants were camped at Piraeus on Monday and over 11,000 at Idomeni, a northern border outpost where Macedonian police fired tear gas to drive back migrants who stormed the border fence in desperation on Sunday.
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But Zeno ran out of magic in the extra period, throwing three incomplete passes and getting sacked while in desperation mode and Baylor (224-210) needing a touchdown to send the game to a second OT period.
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It is for that reason that the world should not "just throw our arms in the air in desperation" against globalization, even when there is loud discontent that has resulted in protectionist sentiment around the world, said Georgieva.
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It fits, then, that the Bulls gave up two of their few effective three-point shooters, Jose Calderon and Mike Dunleavy, in desperation trades to Los Angeles and Cleveland, respectively, to clear enough salary cap room for Wade.
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" Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League and a long-time pro-lifer, says that the responsibility of an illegal abortion "should fall on abortion providers, not the women who turn to them in desperation.
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Nine days passed in desperation until Jean stumbled upon American doctors who transported mother and child to the USNS Comfort, a Navy ship outfitted with state-of-the-art trauma facilities to support disaster relief around the world.
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In desperation to rally the pro-settler base, Mr. Netanyahu said publicly three days before the election that he would begin applying Israeli sovereignty to parts of the West Bank that the Palestinians demand for their future state.
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That allowed Turkey to invade, and prompted the Kurdish leadership to turn in desperation to the Syrian government and its Russian backers for protection, in a bid to prevent Turkey from taking over the entire Kurdish-held area.
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Frantic to reach the new president-elect the next day, the Turkish Embassy in Washington eventually turned in desperation to Mr. Yalcindag for the telephone number of Trump headquarters — beginning his new role as a go-between for Ankara.
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In desperation, as the scholar Derek Waller found, the British cultivated ''pundits,'' Indians who had helped map the subcontinent and were now dispatched, in disguise, into Tibet, equipped with compasses and 100-bead rosaries to discreetly count their steps.
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Many voted for Obama, believing his message of hope and change, but were quickly disillusioned and have turned in desperation to their bitter class enemy, clinging to the hope that somehow its formal leader will come to their rescue.
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Today, as more Pakistanis invest in headstones and concrete shrines to protect remains, gravediggers in desperation sometimes seek out old-style earthen mounds, and a few place remains on top of bodies that were laid out just a few months earlier.
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It opens with a wartime memory: Simon's frail friend, Mimi, recalls a piece of meat carved from a donkey that her father killed in desperation while in hiding, an act that led his neighbors to betray him to the Gestapo.
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But traffic only got worse and eventually, in desperation, I convinced myself that the only way to prevent the heart of my city from choking on congestion was to build an ugly, hulking overpass running above the city's grid layout.
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But even as politicians and civil society in Pakistan are up in arms over how members of the Buddhist majority in Myanmar are abusing the Muslim Rohingyas there, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya migrants here continue to live in desperation.
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"Last year, after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, I decided in desperation that I would not participate in any more empty moments of silence, prayer or sympathy in the only body that could slow the carnage," he wrote.
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Speaking to PEOPLE at the time, Carter, 42, explained that Ben "would rather die" than drink from another cup and, in desperation, posted a social media call in the hope that one might be gathering dust at the back of someone's kitchen cupboard.
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In desperation, I moved to his neck and quickly sliced and dissected down to the giant carotid artery in his neck (this is where you feel for someone's pulse), where I placed a thick clamp called a "bulldog" to slow the blood flow.
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Defeated by the same asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs, which was summoned by Zordon (a nude Bryan Cranston) in desperation, the space witch was a corpse floatin' in the ocean for millions of years before being unceremoniously caught in a fish net.
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WASHINGTON — As the Islamic State loses territory in Iraq and Syria, American and other Western officials say they are bracing for large numbers of battle-tested terrorist fighters to flee the conflict in desperation or by design and prepare attacks after returning home.
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This did not go well, according to tweets by annoyed fans that paint a picture of piss-covered chaos: The report tells stories of 45-minute-long lines for the porta-potties driving some fans to pee on a fence in desperation.
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His struggles with depression and insomnia, meanwhile, leave him awake all night jotting down incoherent thoughts for new tech start-ups or, in darker moments, crawling across the bedroom floor to the window and waiting, in desperation, for the resurrecting glow of dawn.
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But Italy chose the locale to spotlight a different dimension of the human condition: the hundreds of thousands of refugees who, in desperation, put their lives on the line to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa and the Middle East every year.
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Chelsea actually had the best early scoring chance when Diego Costa — one of two Chelsea players wearing protective face masks — crushed a header from close range only to see goalkeeper Kevin Trapp throw his left hand out in desperation and tip the ball away.
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In desperation I hopped a fence, shimmied along a pier, and by getting a few dozen feet closer, managed to recover the Wi-Fi network, reboot the app, and hit the return home button, landing with just 9 percent of my battery to spare.
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Photo via Parks Canada Sent from England to cross the Northwest Passage to the far east, the two ships were trapped in ice in 21848, forcing the crew to abandon the boats and trek across the tundra in desperation, with some resorting to cannibalism.
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Photo via Parks Canada Sent from England to cross the Northwest Passage to the far east, the two ships were trapped in ice in 1846, forcing the crew to abandon the boats and trek across the tundra in desperation, with some resorting to cannibalism.
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Liu&aposs release comes as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is visiting Germany, a country that in May said it would welcome the widow after a recording was released of her crying in desperation and indicating she has given up hope of being able to leave China.
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That wave has carried Donald Trump to the brink of the nomination, a hostile takeover that so horrifies the Republican establishment that many are now turning in desperation to a man they dislike almost as much as the prospect of Trump as their standard-bearer. Sen.
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Their best guesses include black families not having the resources needed to sustain care, caregivers of black patients feeling more burned-out and turning to hospitals in desperation, and doctors not doing a better job of conveying how to make the most of hospice care to families.
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In desperation, he runs away and tries to steal de la Cruz's guitar from where it rests in his tomb, and then plays a few chords — but by so doing, he inadvertently slips into the realm of the dead, where the living can no longer see him.
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In desperation, I reached out to a few botanists for help; they helped me understand that the trees present in the background were either spruce or fir trees, and that those species are common in the boreal forest biome typical of Siberia, so that checks out.
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In desperation, some prescribed other drugs off-label, like powerful immunosuppressants or high doses of steroids, which are far from ideal because even if they helped, their side effects can be severe — kidney failure with immunosuppressants, bone loss and even psychotic breaks with high-dose steroids.
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Image 2 of 2 TIGARAS, Indonesia – Hundreds of family members waiting in desperation at a small port on Indonesia&aposs Lake Toba for news of missing relatives performed mass prayers Thursday as the search for more than 190 people unaccounted for after a ferry sinking continued for a fourth day.
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I mean, just look at this big, dopey case from Speck, which is designed to be extra protective: I bought it in desperation at a Sprint store because I was heading off on a trip — the fact that it was the best thing available in the store is doubly depressing.
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As always, journalists and TV crews, around 400 of them, from every corner of the world packed every available space and strained their arms in desperation to get their question answered by the great man, who playfully castigated one half of the auditorium for not giving him an enthusiastic enough welcome.
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Image 2 of 2 TENANTLA, Mexico – Opium poppy growers in southern Mexico who helped fuel the U.S. heroin epidemic say prices for their product have been driven so low — apparently by the use of synthetic opioids like fentanyl — that they are turning in desperation back to another crop they know well: marijuana.
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The BBC host briefly acknowledges her presence — noting that "I think that one of your children has walked in" — as Kelly attempts to keep her at bay, throwing his arm back in desperation as the host then attempts to ask a question about how the political crisis might effect relations with North Korea.
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The SDF, for its part, will have less time and fewer resources to help the United States fight the Islamic State, as it will now be focused on the Turkish threat and on guarding its autonomy against Syria and Russia, to which it turned in desperation to defend against the Turkish onslaught.
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Two men happened to be passing on the snowy pavement, and in desperation my friend asked whether they would mind lending a hand; meanwhile the girl had taken out her mobile phone and was tapping at the screen with varnished fingernails, a process that resulted in a further man arriving shortly afterward.
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But they may also be sending more patients, in desperation, to the illegal drug market where they obtain opioids that may be counterfeit, laced with dangerous and more powerful drugs such as fentanyl and carfentanil, and where they may opt for heroin because it is actually cheaper and easier to obtain than prescription opioids.
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The conditions are so still so bad in Puerto Rico that people are drinking dirty water from polluted rivers and streams, as my colleague Julia Belluz reports: In desperation, Puerto Ricans are bathing and washing their clothes in rivers that have raw sewage pouring into them, the Associated Press reported, exposing them to bacteria like Leptospira, which causes leptospirosis.
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If he continues to lash out in public against anyone who comes his way and if he continues to make rambling and disjoined and patently false statements about vital policy issues, he might very well face a Republican National Committee that wishes it could turn to him in the board room in desperation and say: "You're fired!"
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" Separate from the improving relations between the United States and Cuba is the reality of Le Batard's parents' past — an ocean, he writes, "filled with the Cuban bodies that tell the story, lives literally thrown to the wind in desperation, hoping to reach America's possibility-soaked shores on boats made of old tires and wood and poverty's debris.
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"We have calls from doctors and hospitals that are calling us directly asking if we could ship them masks to their houses in desperation, because the masks are being stolen from the hospitals," said Ronald Reuben, the chief executive of Medicom, a Canadian company that is one of the world's leading manufacturers of N-295 and other medical face masks.
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One, if not the only, meaning of Brexit is that, having lost faith in glib promises of a globalization for all, the other part of the nation — the losers, the shutout and the disdained — have decided, in desperation, to make a sovereign gesture: to change the rules by returning to nation-state politics in order to have a go at leveling things up.
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The policy pendulum was already so firmly in place by the eighteen-eighties that it was accurately described in a treatise called "Children of the State," by Florence Davenport-Hill, an early advocate for foster care: "First we find the children placed in homes, but not safeguarded," then "abuses are discovered" and the children are "in consequence massed together in some big institution" until there, too, still more abuses are discovered, and "in desperation they are dispersed again," until, once again, abuses are discovered in homes, and the children are sent to institutions.
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