desperate measure

collocation in English

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desperate
adjective
uk
/ˈdes.pər.ət/us
/ˈdes.pɚ.ət/
very serious ...
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measure
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ər/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ/
a way of achieving something, or a method for dealing with ...
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(Definition ofdesperateandmeasurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Since we take this last alternative to be adesperatemeasure, we won't discuss it in this paper.
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The only obvious way out - accepting the possibility of a necessary and uncreated substance, and denying the possibility of created and contingent ones - seems adesperatemeasure.
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The wild retaliation against those implicated in the assassination attempt was adesperatemeasureand aimed essentially at genuine opponents, rather than being a basic technique of rule.
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Is it not already clear that this one-off,desperatemeasurewill mean that the poll tax will stay in place for many people?
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It is adesperatemeasurefor desperate situations.
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It is adesperatemeasurewhich has been hastily prepared and introduced.
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The proposal is a ratherdesperatemeasurethat has come out of the blue.
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In an area of high unemployment such as mine, that is adesperatemeasure.
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That makes the move for uniformity adesperatemeasure.
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It is adesperatemeasure, but it is temporary.
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We have seen the six-week procurement freeze, which is adesperatemeasure, although not a new one.
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That is only a short term,desperatemeasureto draw attention to the situation.
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The bills have to be met and this is simply adesperatemeasure.
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However much control of immigration may be needed, it is adesperatemeasureto cut in half families of peoples whose culture is always towards living in the "larger family".
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That is adesperatemeasure, and it would be a move backwards, not forwards, if people could not even get a seat on the train or go to the toilet.
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In adesperatemeasureto pay his debts he turned to maritime insurance fraud.
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Barroso, at this time heading upstream, decided to turn the tide of the battle with adesperatemeasure.
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It is adesperatemeasure, but it works.
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The ship is one of four sent as a lastdesperatemeasure.
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Despite these efforts, the crisis persists and is perhaps most tragic when it threatens the lives of children, driving parents to sometimes desperate measures.
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