desperate effort

collocation in English

meaningsofdesperateandeffort

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desperate
adjective
uk
/ˈdes.pər.ət/us
/ˈdes.pɚ.ət/
very serious ...
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effort
noun
uk
/ˈef.ət/us
/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofdesperateandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Central banks jacked up interest rates in adesperateeffortto obtain it, destabilising commercial banks and depressing prices, production and employment.
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Like the firms, the government is also forced to ensure still higher levels of production\\exports in adesperateeffortto meet its external debt obligations.
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The contents of them are all too often being sold piecemeal in adesperateeffortto stave off the inevitable end.
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In adesperateeffortto get an agreement, she yields one position after another.
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People today bear the scars of the surgical procedures carried out in the lastdesperateeffortin those days to stop the course of tuberculosis.
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It is not in any way a throwing in of the old guard in adesperateeffortto avoid defeat.
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Perhaps it is a belated repentance made in adesperateeffortto prevent their death.
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Industry itself, in adesperateeffortto ease the existing situation, has given much time, much money and great thought to the problem.
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Anything in adesperateeffortto rescue you.
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When malnutrition is detected, the diagnosis made, and adesperateeffortmade to remedy the situation, how long will the child be given milk?
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If, therefore, every lastdesperateeffortat peace having failed, we have to use force, then we must be prepared to use it.
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I will not wax depressive and gloomy, but there is tremendous uncertainty, and there isdesperateeffortto try to contain rising costs.
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They were then forced to make adesperateeffortto balance the books.
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The other occurred in their lastdesperateeffortto save themselves in 1964.
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A failure in that field will otherwise end in adesperateeffortto solve the seemingly insoluble through authoritarian measures.
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I for my part staged a same-day referendum on the future of our football club in adesperateeffortto force up turnout.
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That measure ofdesperateeffortto prove the unprovable should go.
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They live in communities that have, been overgrown, and in adesperateeffortsomeone, trying to be truly scientific, has given the community the name "conurbation".
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The miraculous gift of life itself and all its intrinsic potential, so promising and rewarding for us, is eroded and reduced for them to adesperateeffortto survive.
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Recently, some local authorities have found it necessary to introduce the clinics, the leisure centres, and other facilities, in adesperateeffortto commence community efforts.
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