Reluctant, but in desperation, she feigns love for Andrei, and agrees to become his mistress in return for the promise of complete secrecy about their relationship.

In desperation, Cassidy attacks, sending a destroyer to the bottom and enabling the crew to return safely to San Francisco.

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.

This is a reference to Mary Furley, a destitute young woman sentenced to death in 1844 for infanticide after her desperation not to return to the workhouse led to a failed suicide attempt in which her illegitimate child drowned.

The Black Death was one of the most traumatic events in European history, and the renewed desperation of the people, hopeful for divine intervention to end their sufferings, brought about a return of the flagellants and the Geisslerlieder.

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

The entire family, acting in complete desperation, works to steal the turnips from Lov, who then becomes nauseated by the sight and leaves for home.

In near desperation, he moves out of the family home to remove himself from temptation and attempts to keep his coworker, Kaname Chidori, from finding out the truth behind his brusqueness with Nanoka.

* 1896 A 7 year old Charlie Chaplin spent a day playing in the park after his mother discharged the family from the Lambeth Workhouse in desperation to see her children.

In desperation, the Emperor recalled Hur Jun, who once again saved another member of the royal family.

The controversial decision led AIK's manager Stuart Baxter to utter the following words in desperation to the fourth referee: " This isn't the amateur league, this is the fucking Champions League.

Roosevelt's attempts to tie Britain to concrete war aims and Churchill's desperation to bind the U. S. to the war effort helped provide motivations for the meeting which produced the Atlantic Charter.

The supposed Generation X, who had just reached adulthood as grunge's popularity peaked, were closely associated with grunge, the sound which helped " define the desperation of ( that ) generation ".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In response to the then-impending threat of the Avatars ' plan to create utopia and destroy all demons, a group of demons, in their desperation to seek a way to stop the Avatars, released Zankou from his prison.

In desperation, he threw large sums of money at the staff chemists to create a product to save the company, and what came back to him was a kind of water-proof makeup.

Out of desperation, citizen boy Amuro Ray accidentally finds the Federation's new arsenal — the RX-78 Gundam, and neutralizes the situation.

I think that activity came out of isolation and desperation, and I hope that isn't going to be something that people feel they have to take up because they have no other way to express their opposition to the brave new world.

However, devising new material night after night became a treadmill of desperation.

Poverty, squalor, and desperation were to be the fate of the new working class created by the " revolution ".

The new program indirectly criticized practices of nationalist desperation and Stalinism.

Men can also be deployed unarmed, but as they cannot damage enemy buildings this is only useful for constructing a new tower in another sector, as cannon fodder, or in desperation while defending a sector. Nuclear weapons of AD 1980 follow special rules.

In part desperation, WABC countered by going against their music policy, promising promoter Sid Bernstein to play a new group he was handling first.

In desperation, the king appealed to the French people to save their country, and in doing so gained thousands of new army recruits.

Newcastle United's desperation for their new centre-forward meant that they were willing to pay £ 6, 500 to capture him.

The story, concerning the Galactic Empire's current status in the 4th millennium, during the 3200's, serves as an entry point, gradually introducing the player to new concepts ( planet management, space battles, ground battles, research, component & ship production, diplomatic functions ) as he rises through the ranks from Lieutenant to Captain, Commander, Admiral and eventually Grand Admiral ( where all functions are unlocked and the player has full control ), all the while revealing the character's shrouded past, revealing that Johnson is the Galactic Empire's secret weapon that was created in desperation, an android, through flashbacks.

The Jesuit priest was appalled at the violence and desperation that overtook the Potawatomi in their new home, in large part due to the whiskey trade.

Springsteen explained the two songs by revealing that " Reno " was about a man so in love with his lost wife that his desperation could not be vanquished even by a prostitute (" It wasn't the best I ever had / not even close ") and that the expletive in " Long Time Comin '" was not negative but, in fact, a positive affirmation (" I ain't gonna fuck it up this time ," referring to raising his new child ).

In one episode of the new 3D animation productions, Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO: Apocalypse 0079, Zeon deployed their own mobile attack pod, the MP-02A " Oggo ", in desperation.

In desperation, she reformed the Teen Titans with several new members in order to fight her father.

In desperation and after new samples fail to contain the missing compound, Crane runs the chromatograph one more time and accidentally discovers that the source of the cure is not the flower but a species of rare ant indigenous to the rainforest.

For it is a gamble if even the dreadnoughts which cost millions are rendered obsolescent in the shortest space of time by the invention of new types of ships, and if financially ordered States are ruined and finally driven into wars of desperation by the continued building of such giant ships ... That the fact of our building this threatening Battle Fleet will possibly or even probably lead to a decision to pursue a policy of violence.