In desperation, Dirk and Elspeth use their Gifts ( she is able to see at great distances, he is able to lift and move objects with his mind ) and the strength of the Companion herd to pull her out of Ancar's dungeon.

' In his desperation, he turned to increasingly wanton acts of brutality ; the French burned alive, hanged, drowned, and tortured black prisoners, reviving such practices as burying blacks in piles of insects and boiling them in cauldrons of molasses.

In desperation at the churn rate, Carlton and Granada turned to their most valuable asset-the ITV brand-and on 11 July 2001 rebranded ONdigital as ITV Digital.

In constant fear of attack from the Normans in the south of Italy, the Byzantines turned in desperation to the Normans own spiritual chief, Pope Leo IX and, according to William of Apulia, begged him " to liberate Italy that now lacks its freedom and to force that wicked people, who are pressing Apulia under their yoke, to leave.

His overtures were initially ignored and he was denounced in Peking as a feudal chieftain whom the capitalist world turned to out of desperation.

But Fiacha in desperation turned to the powerful Munster druid Mug Ruith for aid, and his magic was too strong even for Cormac's fairy druids.

Poor people, in desperation, turned to the governor, who responded by creating a little relief work — stone-breaking for US $ 0. 10 a day.

Grey Owl ’ s The Men of the Last Frontier was a call of desperation for the people of Canada to awaken from their immobility and resist against the destruction of their country as the forests were being turned into deserts for profit.

It turned out that all three had partially merged during the explosion when Black Swan used his powers in an act of desperation to save himself.

In desperation, the Tories again turned to Arthur Meighen for leadership.

In desperation they had turned to Saint Cunibert who had advised them to pray to God and to promise to bring up an eventual child in the Christian faith.

Then, with 32 seconds remaining Staubach again lined up in the shotgun formation, took the snap, pump-faked left, then turned to his right and unloaded a desperation pass to Drew Pearson who was being covered by All-Pro cornerback Nate Wright.

About de Hory, we learn that he was a struggling artist who turned to forgery out of desperation, only to see the greater share of the profits from his deceptions go to doubly unscrupulous art dealers.

contraction following the 1837 panic, management turned in desperation to London for fresh capital and credit.

) In the beginning, they tried to raise the alarm with their political masters in the government, to no avail ; in desperation, they then turned to other means.

A lengthy series of investigations into the source of the noise followed and, in desperation, the USAF eventually turned over the testing to a panel headed by SRI.

Johnny also knew Eric's wife, Peggy, who used to try and seduce him out of desperation but he turned her down.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The reality is that Micheline Musseli Pozzo di Borgo, a French aristocrat who at 20 was France's youngest lawyer ever, brought considerable wealth to her marriage to Lerner and lost most of it through him, including nearly $ 600, 000 from the sale of her Parisian apartment, which Lerner placed in investments that either failed or were looted by him during periods of financial desperation.

In desperation, she signed over power of attorney to an accountant who disappeared with the majority of her money, leaving her with no more than $ 150, 000.

With regard to a safety net, Hayek advocated " some provision for those threatened by the extremes of indigence or starvation, be it only in the interest of those who require protection against acts of desperation on the part of the needy.

Isolation plays are also common in tournaments to isolate a player who is " short stacked ", that is, one who is in imminent danger of elimination, and so is likely to be playing aggressively out of desperation.

Gandalf would have ridden to their aid, but he too was suddenly required elsewhere — to save Faramir from Denethor, who sought in desperation to burn himself and his son on a funeral pyre.

Following the disastrous preview, Capra made extensive cuts and, on January 12, 1937, reshot scenes involving the High Lama written by Sidney Buchman, who declined screen credit for his work, which placed more emphasis on the growing desperation of the world situation at the time.

In desperation, he forgoes closing his $ 130 billion pharmaceutical acquisition deal to intercept Kate, who had left the message the day before.

Windrip is less a Nazi than a con-man-plus-Rotarian, a manipulator who knows how to appeal to people's desperation, but neither he nor his followers are in the grip of the kind of world-transforming ideology like Hitler's National Socialism.

Finally in desperation he said, " You don't seem to know who I am.

In desperation, Lambeau calls on Sean Maguire ( Robin Williams ), his estranged college roommate who also grew up in South Boston and now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community College.

In desperation, the singers suggested the name of their assistant Chorus Master, who knew the whole opera from memory.

Trying to postpone returning home ( where he has planned suicide ), Harry walks aimlessly around the town for most of the night, finally stopping to rest at a dance hall where he happens on a young woman, Hermine, who quickly recognizes his desperation.

Such was the desperation for them to have Kun receive promised Soviet support that it was Kun, a captive, who dictated the terms to his captors.

Windrip is less a Nazi than a con-man-plus-Rotarian, a manipulator who knows how to appeal to people's desperation, but neither he nor his followers are in the grip of the kind of world-transforming ideology like Hitler's National Socialism.

Bamboozled has a superficial similarity to the 1976 Oscar-winning film Network which is also about the frustrated employee of a television network who in an act of desperation creates a controversial television show.

Of course, the introduction of irreducible primitives into a philosophical theory is always problematical ( some would say a sign of desperation ), and such anti-reductionist accounts are unlikely to please those who have other reasons to hold fast to the method behind JTB + G accounts.

Its overarching themes deal with the alienation and desperation of a broad group of odd individuals who exist at the fringes of the Hollywood movie industry.

At this moment, the battle is obviously going against the Spanish, who in desperation kept sending reinforcements.

Jay is an unbalanced day laborer who, in the depths of his anger and desperation at Bush's actions and his inability to do anything to stop them, has traveled to Washington, D. C., to kill the president.

Micheltorena arrived with the batallón fijo, a force of 300 pardoned criminals, who out of desperation at not being paid began to loot the population.

In desperation humans employed elite groups of hunter killer soldiers who tracked behind Minbari lines and used all means to kill Minbari Warriors.

However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).

Farmer Giles learns that he can be bullied, but is smart enough not to push him to desperation.

Given that Gable and Cukor had worked together before, in Manhattan Melodrama and Gable had no objection to working with him then, and given Selznick's desperation to get Gable for Rhett Butler, if Gable had any objections to Cukor, certainly they would have been expressed before he signed his contract for the film.

In desperation, Gregory sent ambassadors to Charles Martel, the Frankish Mayor of the Palace, begging him to intervene on the pope ’ s behalf.

Hutz's incompetence and financial desperation sometimes lead him to resort to rooting through dumpsters, claiming they are client-related.

She heads for the treasury where Ged is kept prisoner, and in her desperation, confesses everything to him.

In a moment of terror and desperation, she bares her heart to him, revealing that she never loved her first husband, only him.

While he is generally considered to be rather short-tempered when compared to Rama, Lakshmana is also considered an important element of Mariyada Purushottama, displaying great courage and presence of mind when Rama becomes distraught, angry and desperate over the loss of Sita — in an uncharacteristic display of desperation, a furious and almost hopeless Rama, not knowing of Sita's fate or whereabouts, is suddenly about to fire a weapon capable of bringing vast devastation of life ; Lakshmana stops Rama, calms him down, explains to him that the world is not responsible for their separation from Sita, and consoles and encourages his righteous brother, while giving him support and strength to keep looking for her.

In desperation, Massinissa persuades Fulvius — in reciprocation for having spared him earlier and in anticipation of an unspoken future favor — to lend him his slave Maciste.

In an unheard-of act of desperation, the family kidnapped Terumune and attempted to take him back with them.

The general's thoughts are relayed to the reader through winding sentences which convey his desperation and loneliness alongside the atrocities and ruthless behavior that keep him in power.

When Death, personified as a teenage girl in a goth dress, shows up to take him, Hazel makes a promise in desperation.

Through a series of undercover agents, the First Family manoeuvers Steve into a position of weakness and desperation, then sends him back into the field as a member of AMEXICO, the AMtrak EXecutive Intelligence COmmandoes ( agents are known as ' Mexicans ') with orders to kill Cadillac and Clearwater.

: Being driven to desperation, I stabbed him in the breast,

Such was Robson's desperation for Mourinho to join him he offered to step down after two years in charge and hand over the reins to Mourinho.

He was seen by the goddess Astronoë ( thought by many scholars to be a version of ‘ Ashtart ) who so harassed him with amorous pursuit that in desperation he castrated himself and died.

In desperation and out of instinct, Raistlin throws up his hands to stop the fireball that is hurtling towards him.

After having sex with him many times in the Student Council room at school, Nami goes to the girls in desperation, asking them to make Hiratami have sex with her again.