In desperation, Kaunda broke with the IMF in May 1987 and introduced a New Economic Recovery Programme in 1988.

In desperation, Cornwallis attempted to evacuate his troops across the York River to Gloucester Point.

Perhaps in desperation Hotspur attempted to address this imbalance with a charge aimed at killing the King himself, the Royal Standard was overthrown and Sir Walter Blount, its carrier, hacked down.

In desperation, Lale attempted to commit suicide.

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

Bennett had in desperation attempted to save his government by reversing its laissez-faire policies and, belatedly, implementing " Bennett's New Deal " based on the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

When the allied armies on the Western Front collapsed in the wake of the German Spring Offensive and decimated the 10th and 16th Irish divisions, the Government attempted a month later in desperation to extend conscription to Ireland, which Dillon opposed with tenacity and in protest withdrew all Irish Members from the House of Commons.

On the 20th of July 1839, driven to desperation, Bhimsen attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a kukri, of which wound he died nine days afterwards.

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.

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 ).

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.

Fans connected with Jon's " loneliness and desperation " and found his " crazy antics " humorous ; Jim Davis himself called Walsh's strips an " inspired thing to do " and said that " some of strips work better the originals ".

The Trojans, fuelled with desperation, fought back fiercely, despite being disorganized and leaderless.

By June 1598, The Japanese forces fought with desperation, turning back several Chinese offensives in Suncheon and Sacheon as the Ming army prepared for a final assault.

As in his painting of the apocalypse by water ( Composition VI ), Kandinsky puts the viewer in the situation of experiencing these epic myths by translating them into contemporary terms ( with a sense of desperation, flurry, urgency, and confusion ).

She is now angry over the dates he has broken with her, but after he kisses her in desperation, she yields and hands over a little money.

Looking to cast the lead role of a serial killer on death row, producer Herman Shumlin met with Tracy, and later recounted: " beneath the surface, here was a man of passion, violence, sensitivity and desperation: no ordinary man, and just the man for the part.

Italian Neorealist films mostly contend with the difficult economic and moral conditions of post-World War II Italy, reflecting the changes in the Italian psyche and the conditions of everyday life: poverty and desperation.

At that time the Eora conscientiously avoided contact with the newcomers, and in desperation Phillip resorted to kidnap.

Urolagnia is sometimes associated with omorashi, though in Western culture, omorashi is typically distinguished from urolagnia, with terms such as bladder desperation or panty wetting.

Watersports may also be used in a BDSM scene as a form of humiliation, sometimes involving desperation until incontinence or infantilization, sometimes physical humiliation associated with being urinated on or pressured to consume urine.

Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcore's self-imposed boundaries in favor of melodic guitars, varied rhythms, and deeply personal, impassioned lyrics dealing with nostalgia, romantic bitterness, and poetic desperation.

The actresses ' style of performing sometimes shows a kinship with that of the early Kim Stanley or the recent Joanne Woodward, but the notes of desperation are emphatically her own.

By the early 1900s, Ulysses was the last surviving town in Grant County, Kansas, and by 1906, Ulysses was faced with increasingly hard times and desperation.

When the Ilkhanate collapsed after Abu Sa ' id's death, its senior-beys approached Uzbeg in their desperation to find a leader, but the latter declined after consulting with his senior emir, Qutluq Timür.

In desperation, the money is hidden in Bergdorf's coffin, with $ 10, 000 set aside for the widow ( Willes ).

In her autobiography, Duncan relates that she begged a young Italian stranger — the sculptor Romano Romanelli — to sleep with her because of her desperation to have another baby.

The novel deals not only with the after-effects of the camp experience, but also with making a parallel between the desperation of the residents of Harlem and that of the people in the camps.

In desperation, the delegates agreed on May 3 to stop voting and adjourn the convention.

With the death of the King's third wife on 27 May 1829, Ferdinand's desperation to father an heir for his crown resulted in his fourth marriage just seven months later.

In desperation, on 3 May the delegates voted to adjourn the convention, and reconvene in Baltimore six weeks later.

In desperation, the RCMP hired Wop May to help in the hunt by scouting the area from the air.

In desperation, the New Republic military fired on the hostage refugee ships but to no avail.

In desperation, on August 21, New Mexico Governor Antonio de Otermín, barricaded in the Governor ’ s Palace, sallied outside the palace with all of his available men and forced the Pueblo to retreat with heavy losses.

In desperation, the police call for " Sky Captain " Joe Sullivan ( Jude Law ), who commands a private air force based in New York, the Flying Legion.

He came to New York to be a compositor, but in the depression of 1833, he started The Sun in desperation.

On November 30, once again on Monday Night Football, Sharper intercepted a desperation pass from New England's Tom Brady and returned it 35 yards, which would have left him 4 yards short of the NFL record for interception return yards in a season, set by Ed Reed of the Baltimore Ravens in 2004, but the interception was called back due to a penalty.

As an act of desperation, he goes to the New York Port Authority Terminal, where he had the nightstick – complete with the blood stains of the cabbie and Murdock's fingerprints – stashed away.

He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL Draft, with whom he later won Super Bowl XLII, knocking down Tom Brady's last desperation Hail Mary pass to Randy Moss.

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.

However, the East Providence Rescue Squad made its way through to my home in time of desperation.

In blind panic of grief she accepted Jonathan's dictum, and believed in her desperation that she had been cursed by God.

Influential people in America were warning the Pentagon to be prepared against desperation gas attacks by the Germans in future campaigns.

No help came from the crown, and Perier, in desperation, gave a monopoly of the Indian trade in the district to D'Artaguette.

Finally, in desperation, he opened the refrigerator, filched her hand lotion, and left a note.

Having composed the Proclamation some time earlier, Lincoln had waited for a military victory to publish it to avoid it being perceived as the product of desperation.

Yussuf, in desperation, drew his dagger and rushed upon the sultan.

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.

Overcome by rage, Ahasuerus leaves the room ; meanwhile Haman stays behind and begs Esther for his life, falling upon her in desperation.

Sir John Franklin's lost polar expedition is another example of cannibalism out of desperation.

This may be done in desperation, as during peacetime cannibalism is much less frequent ; at other times, it is consciously directed at certain groups believed to be relatively helpless, such as Congo Pygmies, even considered subhuman by some other Congolese.

Common reactions, such as desperation, anger, frustration, and denial are possible.

In most cases where a pass is caught by an ineligible receiver, it is usually because the quarterback was under pressure and threw it to an offensive lineman out of desperation.

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.

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

Gladiators do not seem to have made good field soldiers – their enrollment should be seen as an act of desperation.

' 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, the Japanese government undertook " structural reform " policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets.

The longer-term effect was to drive 80, 000 Jews to emigrate, most leaving behind all their property in their desperation to escape.

As he recounts in the Champlin book, Frankenheimer used the production's desperation to his advantage in negotiations.

Finally in desperation he used his hands.

" He is said to have viewed the raids on white settlements as driven by desperation, " committed from absolute necessity when in a starving condition.