Desperate for labor to toil the new agricultural settlements, the Conquistadors sought slaves from surrounding islands and the continental mainland.

Desperate measures were taken: contrary to the Roman constitution, Gaius Marius, who had defeated Jugurtha, was elected consul and supreme commander for five years in a row ( 104-100 BC ).

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

These included An Elopement à la Mode and The Pickpocket: A Chase Through London, made by Alf Collins for the British branch of the French Gaumont company, Daring Daylight Burglary, made by Frank Mottershaw at the Sheffield Photographic Company, and Desperate Poaching Affray, made by the Haggar family, whose main business was exhibiting films made by others in their traveling tent theatre.

In the 2000s, ABC began to revitalize the primetime soap opera format with shows such as Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Ugly Betty, Private Practice and most recently Revenge and Ringer, which they co-produced with CBS for the CW.

* Using a Cellphone Signal to Hunt for a Victim in Desperate Need, The New York Times 20 September 2001.

X's first record deal was with independent label Dangerhouse, for which the band produced two singles, " Adult Books " ( 1978 ) and " Los Angeles " (" We're Desperate " was the b-side to " Adult Books ").

* In No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle for the Wii, Akashic Points are locations that lead to other planes of existence.

Newton-John re-teamed with Travolta in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful Two of a Kind, redeemed by its platinum soundtrack ( No. 26 Pop ) featuring " Twist of Fate " ( No. 5 Pop ), " Livin ' in Desperate Times " ( No. 31 Pop ), and a new duet with Travolta, " Take a Chance " ( No. 3 AC ).

Desperate for revenge, Titus orders Lucius to flee Rome and raise an army among their former enemy, the Goths.

Desperate, Wang Lung considers the advice of his pessimistic, worthless uncle ( Walter Connolly ) to sell his land for food, but O-Lan opposes it.

Desperate for any type of military assistance, Constantine XI appealed to the West reaffirming the union of Eastern and Roman Churches which had been signed at the Council of Florence, a condition the Catholic Church imposed before any help could be provided.

Desperate for a miracle, he and Bart go to the greyhound racing track on Christmas Eve in hopes of earning some money.

Desperate for pupils onto whom he could pass his knowledge and unwilling to wait for the emergence of the Children of Ilúvatar, Aulë created his own race of beings, the Dwarves.

Desperate for a star, the team pursued UCLA star Lew Alcindor, and won rights to him in a secret ABA draft.

Louis-Dreyfus was subsequently one of many actresses considered for the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, which would go onto become ABC's mega-hit of the 2004-05 television season.

* Cody Kasch, actor and SAG award winner for Desperate Housewives

Desperate for a miracle, Homer and Bart go to the dog racing track on Christmas Eve in hopes of earning some money.

Desperate, Hyde writes a letter to Lanyon from Jekyll instructing Lanyon to get certain chemicals and have them waiting for him at Lanyon's home.

Desperate for some cash, Reggie agrees but is cheated out of the money by Chaffinch, who takes the money and runs off to New York.

* In the Dilbert comic strip, a character named ' Vijay, the World's Most Desperate Venture Capitalist ' frequently makes appearances, offering bags of cash to anyone with even a hint of potential.

Desperate for cash, Miller fell to churning out pornography on commission for an Oklahoma oil baron at a dollar per page, but after two 100-page stories that brought him US $ 200, he could do no more.

Desperate for cash, Dynegy sold the Northern Natural Gas Company to MidAmerican Energy Holdings for $ 928 million on July 29 ($ 572 less than it paid for it ).

Desperate for cash, DuMont promptly accepted Westinghouse's offer.

In 1955 Tracy turned down William Wyler's The Desperate Hours because he refused to take second-billing to Humphrey Bogart.

" She commented in 2008: “ I hope that she ( Katherine Mayfair ) doesn ’ t lose her snarkiness, because that ’ s always fun to play .” On May 13, 2008, it was announced that Delany would reprise her role on Desperate Housewives for season five, having been promoted to the sixth lead .< ref >

Waters said " The reason that David wasn't in Desperate Living is because of PCP.

Desperate because he has betrayed Jesus to his death, Judas hangs himself and his body is found by Barabbas.

Desperate and weakened because of Shar's actions, Selûne hurled some of her divine essence at her sister.

In 2005, for the second season of Desperate Housewives, the street went through some heavy changes.

Desperate to avoid possible war with France, Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris in 1802 to negotiate a settlement, with instructions to go to London to negotiate an alliance if the talks in Paris failed.

A prelude to the forthcoming summer gigs in London, Prince played a relaxed set of classic hits (" Kiss ", changing the lyric from " You don't have to watch Dynasty " to Desperate Housewives, " Girls & Boys ", and " Nothing Compares 2 U ") alongside more recent tracks, plus a well-received cover version of Gnarls Barkley's " Crazy ".

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

* Jack Stevenson, Desperate Visions: Camp America ; London: Creation Books, 1996

Desperate to join the Mirvans on their trip to London, Evelina entreats her guardian to let her attend them, promising that the visit will last only a few weeks.

In March 1977 the Desperate Bicycles booked a studio at Dalston in East London to record their first single.

Desperate, he goes to the local airport and sneaks aboard a transatlantic flight, intending to travel to London, and to find the BBC studios where Jolly Farm Revue is filmed.

Having successfully promoted and sold records by punk, very early Indie Pop and early post punk bands such as Buzzcocks, The Smiths and Desperate Bicycles, Travis began to manage acts and distribute bands such as Scritti Politti and began the label, which was informed by left-wing politics and structured as a co-operative.

* Japanese director Tomoaki Hosoyama's early pink film Lesbian Harem ( 1987 ) is an homage to Desperate Living.

Desperate for funds, Charles was forced to call Parliament into session for the first time in over two years.

The contents received a major overhaul, and all the comic strips from the Xtreme era except for Desperate Dan, Bananaman and The Bogies were dropped.