desperate circumstances

collocation in English

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desperate
adjective
uk
/ˈdes.pər.ət/us
/ˈdes.pɚ.ət/
very serious ...
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circumstance
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us
/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofdesperateandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was a drastic measure taken in desperate circumstances.
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This involves the idea of disadvantaged people who 'adapt' to their desperate circumstances in various ways.
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In these desperate circumstances, there were men doing deals with the police to avoid charges against themselves.
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In such desperate circumstances, there are often failures of common ownership.
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It was only in these desperate circumstances when the problem got out of all control, that we had to do it, and we did it.
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Let us admit that there were desperate circumstances.
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People in desperate circumstances have no choice but to accept whatever the landlord wants.
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It is the present generation of pensioners who are in desperate circumstances.
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There clearly cannot be delays over humanitarian access to people in desperate circumstances if we are to avoid people dying in greater numbers.
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They are likely to be prepared to pay premiums under these desperate circumstances and may be prepared to offer inflated rents.
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He has been behind much of the activity and organisation to try to help those workers who are in very desperate circumstances.
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Children come here in the most desperate circumstances, having experienced horrors—and what are we going to do with them?
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It appears that we are now determined to create one of our own and to turn our backs on ordinary human beings, in desperate circumstances.
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In this case, people have died trying to enter the country in such desperate circumstances.
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If we seem unable to do so, they will reach conclusions that will take us into ever more desperate circumstances.
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It would be difficult in normal times, but in the desperate circumstances of to-day it is absolutely impossible.
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Surely no one is going cap in hand for extra fuel money unless they are in desperate circumstances.
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