My desperation made me an innovator.

It's their kind of ur story onstage, that desperation to live.

Finally, in desperation, they went and they consulted a wise old woman.

I did what I know to do in desperation, which is write.

So kind of out of desperation, I decided that I could think laterally.

Solidarity is an excellent therapy for many mental states arrogance, desperation, indifference, egomania.

And finally, out of desperation, I said, Well, let me explain Georg Cantor in 1877.

And for too long, these children and their parents have suffered undue frustration and desperation.

When I saw the mushroom cloud I fell into a state of desperation, he tells me.

Rising youth unemployment, and the desperation that accompanies it, threatens to undermine any progress made in countries coming out of crisis.

Or will we take proactive steps and learn from the homegrown resource of grassroots activists that have been born of desperation in communities like mine?

Deeply alarmed over the critical condition of millions of homeless and countless injured awaiting immediate response in desperation and pain, being accentuated by extreme weather and difficult terrain,

Deeply alarmed over the critical condition of millions of homeless and countless injured awaiting immediate response in desperation and pain, which is accentuated by extreme weather and difficult terrain,

In fact, the allusion to space exploration has another dimension the achievements of any great are not bound to one s time or place of origin and can be transmitted to other cultures and generations. Tereshkova s dream is a symbol not only of her desperation, which is the desperation of the creative mind in today s Russia, but also of continuing belief in the great potential of the human spirit.

I've got three little grandchildren, and every time I look at them and I think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was their age, I feel this desperation.

Noting that environmental degradation, desertification and global climate change are exacerbating destitution and desperation, causing a negative impact on the realization of the right to food, in particular in developing countries,

My mom took a drink of her signature Sea Breeze, her eyes really welled with tears, and she looked right at me and she said, I will not stand for your desperation.

Joining together to achieve that justice is our best contribution to making sure that we and our children can live in a world free from poverty, desperation and conflict in future years.

But here China s analysis has been completely wrong, for it underestimates the Kim regime s unmanageable desperation whenever it believes that its survival in doubt. Moreover, North Korea does not want to be beholden to any power, including China.

The region s entire value system a political culture forged by autocracy is being transformed. Arab men and women have shed the sense of humiliation and inferiority that despotism imposed on them and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.

Emergencies should not be dealt with on an ad hoc basis by 27 finance ministers frantic to reach a solution before the Asian markets open. And European leaders, in their desperation, should not coerce the European Central Bank into helping.

And so, I became convinced that it is this systematic corruption which is perverting economic policy making in these countries, which is the main reason for the misery, for the poverty, for the conflicts, for the violence, for the desperation in many of these countries.

This was obviously an outrageous threat against a country that has no intention of attacking Russia. But it also reflects a more fundamental factor in the Kremlin s foreign policy desperation to maintain Russia s strategic influence at a time of unprecedented challenges to its authority.

Meanwhile, the Middle East remains a region mired in backwardness. The Arab Spring triggered by slow growth, high youth unemployment, and widespread economic desperation has given way to a long winter in Egypt and Libya, where the alternatives are a return to authoritarian strongmen and political chaos.

This desperation is perhaps most apparent in Syria. After years of insisting that Syrian President Bashar al Assad was the problem, a growing number of Western policymakers and strategists are now suggesting that he may actually be part of the solution or at least the transition.

But this also requires helping those people who out of desperation have fallen prey to extremist forces. Last year, I pardoned a 14 year old boy from the Pakistan tribal area in Waziristan who had come to Afghanistan to blow himself up as a suicide bomber.

The villages that I visited in Tajikistan, Yemen, Mali, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Malawi, Cambodia, and elsewhere reflect the condition of hundreds of millions of impoverished people worldwide. Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high yield seeds, the results were the same desperation, disease, and death.

Already squeezed by exorbitant property prices and popular resistance to land takings, they now face higher interest rates, property taxes, villagers empowered by stronger rights, and expensive new requirements to provide social services to migrants. The desperation of local potentates and SOE executives has created powerful resistance to reform.

Its objective, defined as far back as 6 April 1960, has been the destruction of the Cuban Revolution through disenchantment and disaffection based on economic dissatisfaction and hardship () denying money and supplies to Cuba, to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government .

And the reality of the society that we're in is there are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours at jobs they hate to enable them to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't like.

Efforts by radicals to recruit and indoctrinate young European Muslims do not reflect the inexorable rise of Islamist or even Islamic influence in Europe. Rather, they highlight the radicals desperation to influence a region where the overwhelming majority of Muslims aspire to integrate into, rather than challenge, the established order.

Desperation and poverty are the tools used by evil forces to raise their terrorist cadres. But that environment will not change if political will is lacking, and if there is no action by the US and the governments of the region to get our economies to create jobs that offer hope.

In other words, allowing children to drown is a legitimate deterrent. Back in the real world, the desperation and aspiration driving people to flee outweigh the risks posed by the crossing meaning that the closure of Mare Nostrum will do nothing to reduce the number of people attempting the journey to Europe.

Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency. Similarly, the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, which has claimed 10,000 lives, exploits the desperation of mountain villagers hit by flash floods the result of deforestation higher up.

The promise of scale is great for nonprofits not just in terms of costs, but also for best practices and quality control. Yet the real value is in training people to deliver for themselves, at a local scale empowered rather than controlled, creative rather than rehearsed, and working by choice rather than in desperation.

So I want to tell you a story an encouraging story about addressing desperation, depression and despair in Afghanistan, and what we have learned from it, and how to help people to overcome traumatic experiences and how to help them to regain some confidence in the time ahead in the future and how to participate again in everyday life.

After all, severe environmental conditions in much of the Middle East and North Africa s Sahel region contribute to the sense of desperation that fuels Islamic extremism. Given this, arranging the attacks in such a way that could distract from efforts to ameliorate those conditions while advancing the terrorists other goals, of course would seem like a winning strategy.

Other Al Qaeda thinkers have expressed admiration for the ability of young men like Wael Ghonim to mobilize thousands of his fellow Egyptians by conveying his sincere desire for change and love of country. There is certainly a degree of envy for what others have accomplished and a sense of desperation about how Al Qaeda can capitalize on this change.

In fact, the US often stands for high principles, such as freedom and democracy, and incorporates them successfully into its foreign policy. Defending economic aid to Europe after World War II, General George C. Marshall, then US Secretary of State, gave an inspirational speech that argued that US policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.

America s strategic vacuum can also be seen in Egypt in the wake of the military s overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi s Muslim Brotherhood government. Obama s uncertainty about how to deal with the coup has created an absurd situation in which most Western oriented groups in Egypt the military and secular elites who underpinned Mubarak s alliance with the US have now turned, in desperation, to Russia as a source of future military supplies.

Katju attributes the talks inevitable resumption to America s strategic desperation, which is so acute that the US would be unlikely even to follow through on Kerry s pledge to call off the talks if any link to Al Qaeda were found. After all, the US has already accepted the Taliban s unrealistic assurances that it will not use Afghanistan as a base from which to foment trouble that is, execute terrorist attacks elsewhere.

North Korea then asked Japan for economic aid and food supplies in exchange for returning not only the Japanese wives in question, but also seven Japanese known to have been abducted by the North. The Japanese aid, like the ransom paid to a kidnapper, must be provided by April 15, just in time for the commemoration of Kim Il song s birth a clear indication of North Korea s true intentions, and desperation.

And now, given the potential cost of scuttling the recent agreement with the US, the decision to launch a long range missile takes that desperation a step further. In fact, it has been suggested that the launch is intended to be a demonstration to Iran of the North s missile prowess, as the Islamic Republic could become a customer for the illicit missile and nuclear technology sales that are one of the regime s few sources of hard currency.