His entire economic agenda is one big and desperate attempt to boost American consumption.
They had filled water jugs with their own urine in a desperate attempt to stay alive.
In a desperate attempt to avoid anything like that in the future I enrolled in a tax course.
Did the kid kill his father, and stage the phone call, in a desperate attempt to get playing time?
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The 2012 election amounted to a desperate attempt by the electorate to purge the Republican Party of clueless conservatism.
The move appears to be a desperate attempt by Microsoft to grow search and ultimately boost its search advertising revenues.
As part of a desperate attempt to assuage the traditionalists, Bishop Robinson has been excluded from the guest list for Lambeth.
Today public pensions are gambling more than ever on high-risk, high-fee alternative investments in a desperate attempt to narrow their massive underfunding.
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Others have been depleted so badly that severe fishing limitations have been imposed in a desperate attempt to allow stocks to recover.
It's a desperate attempt to cure the ills of the Tory party.
Mr Duhalde inherited a freeze on most bank deposits, put in place in a last desperate attempt to save the currency peg.
As much as I wanted to believe him, the positive outcome he guaranteed seemed little more than a desperate attempt to comfort me.
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In a desperate attempt to cover up his crime, he kept his girlfriend's phone and sent texts to her family pretending to be her.
Monetising corporate debt is the last throw of the reflationary dice and will signpost one last, desperate attempt to keep the old system alive.
When the bubble predictably bursts, get the Federal Reserve to pour trillions of dollars into the industry in a desperate attempt to reinflate the bubble.
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Brian Little inherited the worst squad in the league and his desperate attempt to bolster the playing staff in January did not have the desired effect.
The elections of 2006 and 2008 represented a desperate attempt by the electorate to reshape the Republican Party, which had lost its way since Reagan left office.
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The benchmark 10-year yield traded to as low as 3.09% despite a desperate attempt at a rally on Wall Street encouraged by recovering prices for crude oil futures.
This is just one more desperate attempt to do so.
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Critics described this as a desperate attempt to improve publicity.
Also lost in this desperate attempt to tamp down the tantrums is the absurd premise that legal culpability for a bad act can be shifted to a third party.
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Simon Paisley Day and Anna Madeley are both very fine as the ever-so-conventional types whom Elyot and Amanda marry in an increasingly desperate attempt to escape from one another.
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Back in 1999, Geocities had trouble monetizing its audience, slapping low-priced ads all over the site in a desperate attempt to monetize as much of its traffic as it could.
Edelman in turn sued Emigrant for fraud, which is pending, alleging the troubled bank tried to wrongly extract money from customers like him in a desperate attempt to fix its problems.
It was widely perceived as a desperate attempt to recapture the interest of the hipster class that once propelled it into the mainstream, before being overshadowed by the creeping empire of Facebook.
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Therefore, when my staff visits, we will most likely stare at each other in a desperate attempt to find some justification for wasting your time and paying the salary of the IRS employee.
Ordahl believes that strategy, asserting a common value that will supposedly reflect back onto the company, is a desperate attempt to differentiate when you're lacking the goods to stand out from the competition.
To make matters worse, plans are increasing their high risk bets by loading up on hard-to-value assets, such as private equity and hedge funds, in a desperate attempt to close their funding gaps.
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The problem at present, he says, is that North Korean farmers plant too many poor-quality seeds in a desperate attempt to boost crops, and do so in soil that is becoming increasingly less fertile.
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