Turning the club over to managers later revealed to be dishonest left Wills in desperate financial straits with heavy debts to the IRS for back taxes that caused him to sell many assets including, mistakenly, the rights to " New San Antonio Rose.

" The first proposals of organized suicide attacks met resistance because while bushido called for a warrior to be always aware of death, but not to view it as the sole end, but the desperate straits brought about acceptance.

By 1979, the ACB was in desperate financial straits and faced the prospect of fighting an opponent who had seemingly bottomless cash resources.

Despite the respect he commanded, his constituents were in desperate economic straits and tired of the UFA's orthodoxy, which had failed to raise their condition.

The situation did not improve in Arkansas that year and farmers were in such desperate straits that they called upon Governor Churchill to ask the legislature to postpone the collection of taxes.

Persuaded by his lieutenant Zhang Kan ( 張堪 ) that Gongsun was in desperate straits, however, Wu tricked Gongsun into believing that the Eastern Han forces were collapsing from fatigue, drawing him out of the city and engaging in battle.

Two days later, the several eunuchs holding the emperor and Prince Xie hostage, knowing that they were in desperate straits, took the emperor and the prince and fled north toward the river.

However, the sighting was brief, and Xu was in desperate straits during the descent, and while he clearly remembered seeing the body, he was unclear about where it was.

Two days later, the several eunuchs holding the emperor and Prince Xie hostage, knowing that they were in desperate straits, took the emperor and the prince and fled north toward the river.

The desperate straits of the setting lead to the revival of the Waffen-SS in The Watch on the Rhine.

King Louis XI of France ( Basil Rathbone ) is in desperate straits.

White has no passed pawns and seems to be in desperate straits, since Black's king will soon attack White's pawns with ... Kg4.

Daphne tells him that she stole it from a friend of hers because she was in desperate straits.

Zhu Jichang and fellow officer Liu Zhijun, however, opposed, pointing out that Li Maozhen was in desperate straits.

Kelton has been a full-time musician since 1983, when he began playing for tips in bars after losing his DJ job while newlywed in his second marriage and, in desperate straits, trying to support his unemployed bride and two sons from his previous marriage.

In response, the United States moved to provide material assistance to the new government's armed forces, which were engaged against both CPK insurgents and NVA forces. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces, desperate to retain their sanctuaries and supply lines from North Vietnam, immediately launched armed attacks on the new government.

Each film traces the evolution of the living dead epidemic in the United States and humanity's desperate attempts to cope with it.

The United South of England Eleven ( USEE ) had been formed by Edgar Willsher in 1865 but the heyday of the travelling teams was over and their organisers were desperate to feature new attractions.

Due to the desperate shortage of arms and the shortcomings of a still-developing domestic industry, the Russian government ordered 1. 5 million M1891 infantry rifles from Remington Arms and another 1. 8 million from New England Westinghouse in the United States.

Following the loss of so many players in the crash, United were desperate to find replacements with experience, so Murphy turned to players like Ernie Taylor ( signed for £ 8, 000 from Blackpool ) and Stan Crowther, the Aston Villa wing half who had played against United in the 1957 FA Cup Final.

Hungry and desperate, Blackfoot raided white settlements for food and supplies and caused a stir with the United States Army.

Torquay Town was desperate to join its local rivals in the league and after many discussions Babbacombe at last agreed to a merger, enabling the new club to become the sole representative of the town and turn professional to further its case for league election, the new team was to be called Torquay United again, reverting back to the town's name of circa 1910.

Unlike the wave of Vietnamese boat people in the 1970s and early 1980s, most boat people arriving more recently in Western countries, Australia, or the United States have purchased their passage on large but overcrowded and frequently unseaworthy boats from illegal immigration operators, who may demand considerable sums from their desperate clients.

Since Folsom was one of the first maximum-security prisons in the United States, the inmates were desperate to escape.

On January 1946 34 U. S. senators had petitioned that private relief organizations be allowed to help Germany and Austria, stating that the desperate food situation in occupied Germany " presents a picture of such frightful horror as to stagger the imagination, evidence which increasingly marks the United States as an accomplice in a terrible crime against humanity.

Following Campomar's death in 1957, Leloir and his team applied to the National Institutes of Health in the United States desperate for funding, and surprisingly was accepted.

In Korea, the ' Dukes ' desperate defence of the Hook position halted the last major Chinese attempt to break the United Nations Line before the truce, in July 1953, brought the war to an end.

United were in desperate need of a manager to take over from club secretary Walter Crickmer after the war and a board meeting was called in December 1944 so as to ascertain who that new manager might be.

That afternoon, after much talking and after some logical talks with the representatives of Lanús United, who was the club that played on the intermediate division, and was in a desperate economic situation, they came to an agreement and the merger was finalized, causing the birth of Club Atlético Lanús.

In particular, the United Kingdom was desperate to defeat the German U-Boat threat against British merchant shipping.

The two women, who have fallen on hard economic times, form a desperate and uneasy alliance and begin trafficking illegal immigrants from Canada into the United States across the frozen St. Lawrence River for $ 1200 each per crossing.

Hancock had promising talks with the British, who were desperate to use asbestos as filters in gas masks, and his partners had negotiations with Johns Manville in the United States.

With money from friends in the United States, the American Colony ran a soup kitchen that fed thousands during these desperate times.

The pair travelled by car around the United States, visiting nearly every state in the union, studying the sometimes desperate conditions which resulted from the collapse of agricultural prices associated with the Great Depression.

The United States developed their Command Information Center concept circa the winter of 1942 – 1943 and implemented it in a surge of refitting and retraining during 1943 after post-battle action analyses of the various desperate battles in 1942 from the battle of the Coral Sea through the losses at Ironbottom Sound during the protracted Solomon Islands campaign.

In a desperate effort to bolster the low enrollment base, Randolph-Macon Academy adopted the United States Air Force Junior ROTC program.

* Early months of 1879: The Bell Telephone Company is near bankruptcy and desperate to get a transmitter to equal Edison's carbon transmitter.

During this desperate battle the Strathcona RHQ reconnaissance troop established a bridgehead in conjunction with " A " Company, The Westminster Regiment ( Motor ) on the Melfa River and held it against determined German tank and infantry attacks until reinforcements could arrive.

Synge wrote this about the Company of Death: " Nine hundred desperate patriots forming the Company of Death defended the sacred car.

Others such as the 3rd ( Swedish ) Company of the Reconnaissance battalion fought a desperate and ultimately useless battle to escape the surrounding Soviets, as described by Erik Wallin in the book ' Twilight of the Gods '.

In the Company of Men shows a desperate fight by the adoptive son of an armaments factory manager to be who he is in a cynical, intrigue-ridden neo-liberal business world that Bond considers the mirror of our post-modern times.