- Act of desperation is ultimate expression of fan powerlessness https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/may/02/act-of-desperation-is-ultimate-expression-of-fan-powerlessness 35 comments soccer
- Desperate to move fast and break things, Modi acts first and thinks later https://theprint.in/opinion/desperate-to-move-fast-and-break-things-modi-acts-first-and-thinks-later/303643/ 6 comments india
- From Executive Time to Emergency Time: It’s a Desperate Act of a Desperate Man https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-executive-time-to-emergency-time-its-a-desperate-act-of-a-desperate-man 48 comments politics
- Trump is Acting Desperate https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/trump-is-acting-desperate/ 15 comments politics
- Only one other president has ever acted this desperate https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/only-one-other-president-has-ever-acted-this-desperate/2018/08/06/7eed964e-9994-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html?utm_term=.e6dd575fd662&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 4 comments politics
- Only one other president has ever acted this desperate https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/only-one-other-president-has-ever-acted-this-desperate/2018/08/06/7eed964e-9994-11e8-b55e-5002300ef004_story.html?utm_term=.8e2794441dff 64 comments politics
- Donald Trump's Unfounded Wiretapping Accusations Feel Like a Sad Act of Desperation http://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-wiretapping-desperation 73 comments politics
- ISIS fighters are desperately trying to obtain VIAGRA, spending money on kinky underwear for their ‘wives’… then subjecting them to ‘brutal, abnormal’ sex acts http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=589 31 comments worldnews
- Ottawa shooting by Michael Zehaf-Bibeau was ‘last desperate act’ of a mentally ill person, his mother writes http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/10/25/michael-zehaf-bibeau-mother-says-killing-was-last-desperate-act-of-a-mentally-ill-person/ 37 comments worldnews
- GOP calls Paycheck Fairness Act 'desperate' http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/gop-calls-paycheck-fairness-act-desperate 23 comments politics
- A ridiculous act by a desperate man. Mitt Romney looks like an Oompa Loompa to appeal to Latino voters. http://gawker.com/5944931/mitt-romney-dyed-his-face-brown-to-appeal-to-latino-voters 3 comments politics
- Nate Silver on Romney picking Ryan: It was an act of desperation http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/a-risky-rationale-behind-romneys-choice-of-ryan/ 11 comments politics
- Millionaire Surtax A 'Desperate' Act To Conservatives, 'Sensible' To Liberals http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/10/05/141090844/millionaire-surtax-called-desperate-by-conservatives-sensible-by-liberals 3 comments politics
- Why Facebook's pathetic acts of desperation are not enough to stop Google+ - International Business Times http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/174946/20110706/google-plus-facebook-chrome-extension-block-facebook-friends-exporter-disable-social-network-yahoo-b.htm 3 comments technology
- We *desperately* need something like this in India. (Representation of the People Act, U.K.) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11705995 12 comments india
- The last acts of a desperate party - FREAK OUT TIME!!! The conservatives are flipping their shit. http://www.eclectablog.com/2010/03/last-acts-of-desperate-party-freak-out.html 6 comments politics
- The Latest Desperate Act by Frightened Homeowners http://www.progressivepuppy.com/the_progressive_puppy/2008/10/a-woman-in-southern-california-has-chained-herself-to-the-front-porch-of-her-house-hoping-to-forestall-an-impending-foreclosu.html 7 comments worldnews
- China tells Bachelet not to publish Xinjiang report in ‘act of desperation’ https://genevasolutions.news/global-news/china-tells-bachelet-not-to-publish-xinjiang-report-in-act-of-desperation 40 comments worldnews
- Beijing urged not to overreact to Trump administration’s ‘desperate last act’ on Taiwan https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3117143/beijing-urged-not-overreact-trump-administrations-desperate 87 comments politics
- Hunger and food insecurity is rising. Congress must act | American families desperately need economic relief. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/30/opinion/hunger-food-insecurity-is-rising-congress-must-act/ 9 comments politics
- Joy Reid: Trump acted like 'an angry autocrat who's desperate to hang on to power' https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/joy-reid-trump-acted-like-an-angry-autocrat-who-s-desperate-to-hang-on-to-power-92824645696 5 comments politics
- Joe Biden says Republicans ‘desperately afraid’ of NRA to act on school shootings https://globalnews.ca/video/6170866/joe-biden-says-republicans-desperately-afraid-of-nra-to-act-on-school-shootings 128 comments politics
- ‘Arguably the most desperate act I’ve ever seen a sitting member of Congress do’ https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/02/staten-island-grimm-trump-donovan-563755 4 comments politics
- Clinton campaign: Trump panel an 'act of desperation' http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-accusers-panel-donald-trump-229442 21 comments politics
- USA Today: "Republicans and Democrats act like two men fighting desperately for control of a raft that's headed for Niagara Falls." http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2011-08-07-debt-rating-downgrade-aaa_n.htm 65 comments politics
- 'A desperate act': Imperial Tobacco Canada under fire for 'misinformation' ad campaign https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/imperial-tobacco-canada-vaping-ad-misinformation-1.5480516 7 comments worldnews
- Brennan says Trump revoked his security clearance in desperate act to end Russia probe | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/brennan-editorial-trump-russia-1.4787823 38 comments worldnews
- Germany's Chancellor Scholz has called Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine "an act of desperation" in his remarks at the Bundestag. https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-scholz-says-russian-air-attacks-on-ukraine-constitute-war-crimes/a-63501314 5 comments worldnews
- Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act. Then Double Down on Demonizing Fossil Fuels. This bill shows how desperately we need to build support for serious fossil fuel restrictions. https://newrepublic.com/article/167412/ira-fossil-fuels-climate-activists 7 comments energy
- Celebrate the Inflation Reduction Act. Then Double Down on Demonizing Fossil Fuels. Incentivizing renewables is good—but this bill shows how desperately we need to build support for serious fossil fuel restrictions. https://newrepublic.com/article/167412/ira-fossil-fuels-climate-activists 61 comments politics
- The Respectables | The business owners, real-estate brokers, and service members who rioted at the Capitol acted not out of economic desperation, but out of their belief in their inviolable right to rule. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/thoroughly-respectable-rioters/617644/ 20 comments politics
- South Africa's drug testing shame. Multi national drug companies exploiting the poor and desperate in drug trials: In one instance children as young as six were taken of life saving drugs to act as a control group. http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/2013/07/25/we-are-guinea-pigs-for-the-drugmakers 17 comments worldnews
- Adityanath Ramping Up Anti-Minority Rhetoric Is an Act of Desperation Amid High-Profile Exits https://thewire.in/politics/yogi-adityanath-anti-minority-rhetoric-desperation-high-profile-exits 5 comments india
- Kayleigh McEnany now calls CNN reporters ‘activists’ and takes question from pro-Trump propagandists. This doesn’t bode well. This looked like the final act of an increasingly desperate administration https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-kayleigh-mcenany-press-conference-oann-cnn-b1759391.html 3 comments politics
- Developer Destruction of Pre-Inca Pyramid Goes Unpunished - “I was desperate & climbed the hill to tell the watchman to call the police. When it happened, I felt a deep pain, as this is part of my country, they are destroying my identity, my culture & this is an act of treason against our nation.” http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2013/developer-destruction-of-pre-inca-pyramid-goes-unpunished 97 comments worldnews
- The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court Gearing Up to Restore White Rule Over America: GOP desperation over U.S. demographic changes has spread to the U.S. Supreme Court -- a majority is ready to tear up the most important part of the Voting Rights Act. http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/neo-confederate-supreme-court-gearing-restore-white-rule-over-america?paging=off 3 comments politics
- How is it an act of surrender for Obama to condemn a film but perfectly appropriate for Romney to do the same? What’s left of Romney’s position? What’s left is a desperate attempt to obscure the fact that Romney said a bunch of crazy and wrong stuff. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/romney-tries-to-defend-embassy-lies.html?go=1 12 comments politics
- Former US Treasury Official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, which warns that the Fed is now acting out of desperation in an attempt to prevent a total collapse of the financial system. Dr. Roberts also discussed the Fed’s continued intervention and shorting in the all-important gold and silver markets. http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/kwn_dailyweb/entries/2013/4/24_former_us_treasury_official_-_fed_desperate_to_stop_collapse.html 10 comments economy
- The Desperate Hypocrisy of the Trump Legal Clean-Up Crew. They say he was acting in an official capacity when denying defamation charges—a claim a federal judge rejected yesterday—but not when declassifying documents. https://thebulwark.com/the-desperate-hypocrisy-of-the-trump-legal-clean-up-crew/ 11 comments politics
- 40 years ago, KGB agents arrested Alexander Solzhenitsyn, strip searched him, and threatened death. The next day, he was deported. Said a Time reporter, “the deportation was an act of weakness and desperation—an admission that the Soviet system holds no answer in law or fact or argument.” http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/feb/russian-writer-alexander-solzhenitsyn-charged-with-treason.html 7 comments history