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This was to avoid any concern that the diagnosis is influenced by the desperate need for life-saving donor organs which are in short supply.
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"They were desperate for a better life, " Baumoel said.
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You become desperate to find a life for yourself and your family.
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After 1912, he never saw Dublin again, although he never wrote about any other place, and to the end of his life he was desperate for news of the city and its people.
NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning
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But if true, this would be the latest desperate act from a regime that has shown utter disregard for innocent life, utter disregard for the lives of its own citizens.
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Environmentalists, long vexed by the destruction of Indonesia's primal forests and the damage done to its vast marine life, believe that the new government, desperate for foreign aid, will at last allow them to do something to stop the depredation.
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Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky, " to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence.
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Her songs tell of long and sometimes desperate searches for love or a little clarity of thought or for instant solutions to life's problems.
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Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on harried working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time, with lots of reasons to leave work early.
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At some point during the pursuit, the villain runs out of bullets, and just in case subtlety is lost on the audience, the now desperate villain throws his gun in the general direction of his pursuer and runs for his life.
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Desperate to save him, Leonora offers herself to the Count in exchange for Manrico's life.
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