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Call it sleep deprivation or desperation, but something made me want to email the president that night, so I did. – Lisa Martin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This sign tells the story so well, we know the incidents all too well of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq who have taken their own lives out of the desperation. – Jack Mathison	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is a decision made in urgency, out of desperation, they have to abandon their homes, their families. That is something that is not affected by the seasons, there has to be a means to manage this situation. – Adrian Edwards	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is too early to judge the medical impact of the foreign military... but the call of desperation as a last resort unleashed a wave of international support. – Michiel Hofman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I see a lot more frenzy and desperation in his communications with people now. – Karen Halperin Cyphers	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If there is decision now to stay, it will look like an act of desperation or of panic, and as a result of Kunduz, if it had been made much earlier, it would look like an act of solidarity with a government with which we have a partnership agreement. – Scott Smith	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Gerhard Schindler said. But German secret service officials have observed a disturbing new trend that combines the two threats. Radicals already in Germany are increasingly trying to penetrate the shelters that hold desperate and increasingly volatile refugees who made it to Germany. They have to be careful, because indigenous Islamists and Salafists could try to take advantage of the desperation of the refugees and to achieve their fanatical ideas, said Clemens Binninger, a member of Parliament. Much of the fear has been driven by the fact that ISIS has clearly stated its plan to send jihadists to Western Europe amid the refugee wave. Fighters with valid documents from European Union countries can enter and exit without being detected, and ISIS has reportedly seized hundreds of Syrian blank passports. As a result, European jihadists could be returning amid the wave, and fighters from Syria and Iraq could be sneaking into Western Europe under humanitarian cover, where they can slip into society using doctored documents. Assassins of Paris, of Brussels and the train between Paris and Amsterdam were either radicalized European Muslims or European jihadists, returned from the battlefields, they're making contact with the network of political Salafists, which have been previously recruited to ISIS. Turkey, a European Union member which has taken in an estimated 2 million refugees from Syria, blasted European nations for turning away refugees and making the continent a. – Clemens Binninger	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Although details are not clear, it is important to note the attacks signify high level of desperation on the part of the Boko Haram terrorists. – Colonel Sani Usman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
These policies push refugees into the hands of smugglers who take advantage of their desperation. – Emad Zand	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We live this life of it can be the most exhilarating thing every night on stage but it can also play these tricks on you, he said. We've done 200 shows a year for the last three years and it can make you feel so like you're losing everything in your life, people you care about, those kinds of things, there's a lot of desperation on this record. it’s the same group of guys, it’s the same time, the same lighting guys, the same sound guys, he said. We really are brothers, and we love hanging out with each other, and I miss the heck out of them when I ’m out on the road, so that’s an amazing part of it is I ’m getting to hang out with my family every day and do something that we all love. – Kip Moore	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
All is not well with the Chinese economy, there is just so much pessimism attached to this move (yuan devaluation). For China to emerge and start a fresh currency war when they previously didn't, smacks of desperation. – Howie Lee	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In certain moments, people living in a situation of conflict and desperation tend to think that 'drastic measures' will function. – Torture Claudio Grossman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield, but the overwhelming majority remain in the region, we cannot afford to let them and the communities hosting them slide further into desperation. – Refugees António Guterres	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I had never even seen 'Top Chef.' I didn't know what I was getting into, i did it out of desperation. Woodfire Grill was struggling to get people in the seats. I've never been good at failure, and so I was willing to do anything. – Kevin Gillespie	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The real deal here is not desperation. It's imprecision and a rush to conclude an agreement that will essentially leave too much ambiguity, and not the creative kind. – Aaron David Miller	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Survivors describe how they flee persecution in Burma only to fall into the hands of traffickers and extortionists, in many cases witnessing deaths and suffering abuse and hunger, interviews with officials and others make clear that these brutal networks, with the complicity of government officials in Burma, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Malaysia, profit from the desperation and misery of some of the world's most persecuted and neglected people. – Brad Adams	Found on CNN 8 years ago
You have to find that level of desperation for the entire game. – Sidney Crosby	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Our desperation level was much higher in the third, you saw the difference in our game and our play ... but you have to find that level of desperation for the entire game. – Sidney Crosby	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Desperation is often more powerful than inspiration. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
In its desperation to regain international attention and prestige, Al-Shabaab uses the Islamic State's propaganda tactics and brutality sending a message they not only have the capacity to execute at free will, but also announcing their undeterred presence, more than likely, Al-Shabaab is sending signals to the Islamic State that there is little difference between the groups. – Jasmine Opperman	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Our worry is that leadership in Nigeria seems to be a 'do or die' affair. That level of desperation is a problem. – Khalid Abubakar Aliyu	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
So many men in the world (are) living in this sort of quiet desperation, confined in this box of toxic masculinity. – Carlos Andres Gomez	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It was a very tight match, we knew it would be like that given that your opponents often play on your desperation (since) a 0-0 draw gave them the possibility of playing the final. We lacked creativity to generate chances and put them away. – Jose Saturnino Cardozo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It's one of those things that I think just happened a little too late to really make a difference. It almost feels like last-minute desperation kind of stuff. – Bob Mann	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Call it sleep deprivation or desperation, but something made me want to email the president that night, so I did.

– Lisa Martin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This sign tells the story so well, we know the incidents all too well of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq who have taken their own lives out of the desperation.

– Jack Mathison

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is a decision made in urgency, out of desperation, they have to abandon their homes, their families. That is something that is not affected by the seasons, there has to be a means to manage this situation.

– Adrian Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is too early to judge the medical impact of the foreign military... but the call of desperation as a last resort unleashed a wave of international support.

– Michiel Hofman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I see a lot more frenzy and desperation in his communications with people now.

– Karen Halperin Cyphers

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If there is decision now to stay, it will look like an act of desperation or of panic, and as a result of Kunduz, if it had been made much earlier, it would look like an act of solidarity with a government with which we have a partnership agreement.

– Scott Smith

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Gerhard Schindler said. But German secret service officials have observed a disturbing new trend that combines the two threats. Radicals already in Germany are increasingly trying to penetrate the shelters that hold desperate and increasingly volatile refugees who made it to Germany. They have to be careful, because indigenous Islamists and Salafists could try to take advantage of the desperation of the refugees and to achieve their fanatical ideas, said Clemens Binninger, a member of Parliament. Much of the fear has been driven by the fact that ISIS has clearly stated its plan to send jihadists to Western Europe amid the refugee wave. Fighters with valid documents from European Union countries can enter and exit without being detected, and ISIS has reportedly seized hundreds of Syrian blank passports. As a result, European jihadists could be returning amid the wave, and fighters from Syria and Iraq could be sneaking into Western Europe under humanitarian cover, where they can slip into society using doctored documents. Assassins of Paris, of Brussels and the train between Paris and Amsterdam were either radicalized European Muslims or European jihadists, returned from the battlefields, they're making contact with the network of political Salafists, which have been previously recruited to ISIS. Turkey, a European Union member which has taken in an estimated 2 million refugees from Syria, blasted European nations for turning away refugees and making the continent a.

– Clemens Binninger

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Although details are not clear, it is important to note the attacks signify high level of desperation on the part of the Boko Haram terrorists.

– Colonel Sani Usman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These policies push refugees into the hands of smugglers who take advantage of their desperation.

– Emad Zand

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We live this life of it can be the most exhilarating thing every night on stage but it can also play these tricks on you, he said. We've done 200 shows a year for the last three years and it can make you feel so like you're losing everything in your life, people you care about, those kinds of things, there's a lot of desperation on this record. it’s the same group of guys, it’s the same time, the same lighting guys, the same sound guys, he said. We really are brothers, and we love hanging out with each other, and I miss the heck out of them when I ’m out on the road, so that’s an amazing part of it is I ’m getting to hang out with my family every day and do something that we all love.

– Kip Moore

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

All is not well with the Chinese economy, there is just so much pessimism attached to this move (yuan devaluation). For China to emerge and start a fresh currency war when they previously didn't, smacks of desperation.

– Howie Lee

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In certain moments, people living in a situation of conflict and desperation tend to think that 'drastic measures' will function.

– Torture Claudio Grossman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Worsening conditions are driving growing numbers towards Europe and further afield, but the overwhelming majority remain in the region, we cannot afford to let them and the communities hosting them slide further into desperation.

– Refugees António Guterres

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I had never even seen 'Top Chef.' I didn't know what I was getting into, i did it out of desperation. Woodfire Grill was struggling to get people in the seats. I've never been good at failure, and so I was willing to do anything.

– Kevin Gillespie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The real deal here is not desperation. It's imprecision and a rush to conclude an agreement that will essentially leave too much ambiguity, and not the creative kind.

– Aaron David Miller

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Survivors describe how they flee persecution in Burma only to fall into the hands of traffickers and extortionists, in many cases witnessing deaths and suffering abuse and hunger, interviews with officials and others make clear that these brutal networks, with the complicity of government officials in Burma, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Malaysia, profit from the desperation and misery of some of the world's most persecuted and neglected people.

– Brad Adams

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have to find that level of desperation for the entire game.

– Sidney Crosby

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our desperation level was much higher in the third, you saw the difference in our game and our play ... but you have to find that level of desperation for the entire game.

– Sidney Crosby

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Desperation is often more powerful than inspiration.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

In its desperation to regain international attention and prestige, Al-Shabaab uses the Islamic State's propaganda tactics and brutality sending a message they not only have the capacity to execute at free will, but also announcing their undeterred presence, more than likely, Al-Shabaab is sending signals to the Islamic State that there is little difference between the groups.

– Jasmine Opperman

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Our worry is that leadership in Nigeria seems to be a 'do or die' affair. That level of desperation is a problem.

– Khalid Abubakar Aliyu

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

So many men in the world (are) living in this sort of quiet desperation, confined in this box of toxic masculinity.

– Carlos Andres Gomez

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It was a very tight match, we knew it would be like that given that your opponents often play on your desperation (since) a 0-0 draw gave them the possibility of playing the final. We lacked creativity to generate chances and put them away.

– Jose Saturnino Cardozo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It's one of those things that I think just happened a little too late to really make a difference. It almost feels like last-minute desperation kind of stuff.

– Bob Mann

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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