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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Burns, noting their desperation to sell, offers them $ 50 million for the plant, and they reluctantly accept half of what they paid him.

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.

Almost out of desperation, CBS made a deal to buy WVEU, a low-rated station on channel 69 with the weakest signal of Atlanta's full-power stations.

Despite its explicit nature, it was considered extremely effective in portraying the desperation of people's lives at this time, as well as containing a great deal of humour.

He has not obtained nearly as many as usual recently, and is willing to " make a deal " out of desperation.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Again and again the Rosses had suffered attacks on their lands from their enemies and when at last, driven to desperation and thoroughly infuriated, they gathered their forces and marched against the Mackay Chief, they were in the mood to teach the Mackays a severe lesson.

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

The ship however had already left the shore and in desperation she leapt in the water.

Many of the Republican soldiers had already surrendered to Caesar in previous campaigns and had then deserted his army to rejoin Pompeius: they would fight with desperation, fearing that they would not be pardoned a second time ( indeed Caesar had executed prisoners at his last major victory, at Thapsus ).

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.

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.

The insecurity of farmers, whose debts were increasing and who had no legal protection against foreclosure, was a potent factor in creating a mood of political desperation.

So far the only ' reverted ' wolfriders are Skywise, in an act of desperation, and Windkin, who had his wolf blood removed in infancy.

In his book, Abschied meiner Generation, he said, " Seeing all this devastation and desperation, confronted with hunger and fear, cripples and black-marketers – and with no Nazi in sight anywhere – I realized how fundamentally the seven years between emigration and occupation had changed Germany's exterior and my own interior.

Within a month Negrín understood that the effort had failed, but in his desperation was unable to consider any withdrawal.

In desperation to solve the salinity problem, area residents first proposed constructing a tidal barrage across the mouth of Suisun Bay, but the Marshall Plan, put forwards in 1919 by Robert Marshall of the United States Geological Survey, had a different solution.

Almost out of desperation, CBS agreed to buy WVEU in October, even though the station had the lowest ratings and the weakest signal of all of Atlanta's full-power stations.

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.

Michaels later said that the film was " an act of desperation by Paramount ", in that the movie studio had under-promoted Spade and Farley's 1995 film, Tommy Boy and was now looking to cash in on the same comedy formula.