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.

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

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.

Eventually, Satsuki returns in desperation to the camphor tree and pleads for Totoro's help.

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.

The choice of Taylor was made almost out of desperation ; he was not clearly committed to Whig principles, but he was popular for leading the war effort.

In desperation, Catherine tried every known trick for getting pregnant, such as placing cow dung and ground stags ' antlers on her " source of life ", and drinking mule's urine.

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.

Driven by desperation and hunger, communist armies during the Long March sometimes took hostages for ransom.

Warren Haggerty ( Spencer Tracy ), the managing editor, turns in desperation to former reporter and suave ladies ' man Bill Chandler ( William Powell ) for help.

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.

Beyond the law, he also tries his hand at selling real estate, reasoning that it was a natural move as most of his clients ended up losing their homes anyway, and out of desperation for work, babysitting, where he produces a switchblade on awakening suddenly after nodding off to sleep, and also burns a lot of presumably incriminating documents in the Simpsons ' fireplace, then claiming he is now " Miguel Sanchez ".

Alternatively, the use of polygraph testing, where it causes desperation over dismissal for past dishonesty, may encourage spying.

In desperation, Paul calls the Kittredges for assistance.

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

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.

Feeling more and more depressed by the growth of intolerance, authoritarianism, and nazism, and feeling hopeless for the future for humanity, Zweig wrote a note about his feelings of desperation.

This song too was a sly commentary as a " plan of action " for the calypsonian on the widespread prostitution and the prostitutes ' desperation after the closing of the U. S. naval base on Trinidad at Chaguaramas.

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

Chairman and CEO Scott Livengood attributed the poor results to the low-carbohydrate diet craze, an explanation viewed with skepticism by analysts as " blaming the Atkins diet for disappointing earnings carried a whiff of desperation ".

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.

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

Many white American citizens who were experiencing the negative effects of the Great Depression followed suit in blaming immigrants for their desperation and thought that removing immigrants from relief rolls and having them deported out of the country would solve their problems ( Balderrama 100 ).

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 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.

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 ).

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

In a measure of some desperation, despite the tenuousness of his claim and despite the fact that he was French, they offered the crown of England to Prince Louis of France.

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.

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

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.

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.

But this was a time of fluid ideological borders and great political 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.

The Action Master line was criticized for its perceived desperation for a gimmick, although it had a few defenders.

Double teamed by Duncan and Robinson, Knicks swingman Latrell Sprewell missed a last-second desperation shot, and after closing out the series with a strong 31-point and 9-rebound showing in Game 5, Duncan was named Finals MVP, bringing San Antonio their first-ever NBA championship.

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.

When Eudocia's father died he left her with little means, only " one hundred gold coins " Eudocia then went to her aunt in Constantinople out of desperation, and it was decided that Eudocia would come before Pulcheria to petition for her lost fortune.

Cavallo's appointment was, however, interpreted as an act of desperation by the derivatives markets and a massive shorting of Argentine bonds ensued, followed by at least US $ 40 billion in domestic capital flight.

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