desperate remedy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdesperateandremedy
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desperate
adjective
uk/ˈdes.pər.ət/us/ˈdes.pɚ.ət/
very serious ...
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remedy
noun[C]
uk/ˈrem.ə.di/us/ˈrem.ə.di/
a successful way of curing an illness or dealing with a problem ...
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(Definition ofdesperateandremedyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Adesperateremedyis now being discreetly canvassed, which is to raise the age of entry from 5 to 6.
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We have had to have recourse to thedesperateremedyof competitive advertising to find someone.
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If one thinks of the geography of it, the technology and the finance of it, it seems adesperateremedy.
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If this be adesperateremedy, then what is his idea of a cautious step?
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There is no doubt that in 1922 it was adopted as adesperateremedy, as a desperate alternative, to prevent bankruptcy.
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It is a measure of how far we have gone back that we are having to consider using that ratherdesperateremedy.
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Of course detention without trial is adesperateremedyfor a desperate situation.
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It is adesperateremedyand it is desperately unfair.
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The sad truth is that in many desperate human situations there is no quick, dramatic solution; there is nodesperateremedy.
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Perhaps it is rather a desperate proposal, but the desperate housing situation requires a mostdesperateremedy.
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Drunkenness is the habit of the vacant minded and thedesperateremedyof the chronically bored.
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It would indeed be adesperateremedy.
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Every remedy is adesperateremedy.
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If people are desperate, they take desperate remedies to protect themselves.
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In the desperate times in which we are living, we must try desperate remedies.
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I prefer to say that the governing idea of this debate should be: "desperate situations need desperate remedies".
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Desperate diseases require desperate remedies, and our balance-of-payments problem had become truly desperate.
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As the saying goes 'desperate situations call for desperate remedies'.
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We must also relax immigration laws to prevent people from being driven to take these desperate remedies.
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We are facing a grave situation which calls for desperate remedies—it calls for something more than the normal process of the law.
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