(adv.) In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(2) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(3) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(4) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(5) Hamilton said it was uncanny to find themselves in another desperate emergency situation almost exactly one year on.
(6) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
(7) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(8) 9.23pm GMT Expect the reporters to get even more speculative and desperate from hereon in.
(9) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(10) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(11) The local MP, Rory Stewart, a mover and shaker on the broadband project, told me that he was desperate to get telehealth into Cumbria, but regretfully felt that it was not immediately doable, because the local council and healthcare community did not yet have the necessary expertise.
(12) In desperation, I cancelled my contract with Sky and placed a new order with BT in February.
(13) When I heard it, I thought of Sherpa as a first name, like the Edmund in Edmund Hillary, rather than as a description, like the Desperate in Desperate Dan.
(14) Clark said he first met Brown in November 2004, just a few months before the general election when the party was in desperate need of funds.
(15) I tried desperately hard not to influence her, but I did steer her away from a baby that I've already bought her for her Christmas present.
(16) Patel once wrote: “At one end of this world, there is one woman who desperately needs a baby and cannot have her own child.
(17) Families like these are being abandoned to their fate and, as Steve Hynes of the Legal Action Group says: "These are often truly desperate people."
(18) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(19) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
(20) "I desperately don't want this to suppress people's choice and freedom," says Stansfield.
Urgently
Definition:
(adv.) In an urgent manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
(2) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(3) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
(4) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
(5) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
(6) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(7) Zoellick was also clear that action was now urgently needed.
(8) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
(9) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(10) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
(11) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
(12) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(13) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(14) This issue should attract attention more urgently now in light of the deaths in Savar.
(15) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(16) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
(17) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(18) Alongside investment in health campaigns to help people reduce their risk of cancer, the government urgently needs to take action to stop children starting smoking by introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes without delay”, he added.
(19) Four of the six related deaths and half the urgent operations occurred among 18 patients iwth colonic dilatation.
(20) The other two patients underwent urgent adrenalectomy and had postoperative improvement in their multiple organ system failure.