How was it possible he'd come to such desperate straits as this?

But the city was in such desperate straits by then that it had to immediately expand the program.

He had got into the habit of seeing himself always in desperate straits.

The intensity of that series could leave one or both teams in desperate straits.

Some say it is a smart approach for a city in desperate straits.

Today, he said those steps would still leave the county in desperate financial straits and that a tax increase was essential.

A single 43-year-old Soviet woman is, on the evidence of the film, someone in extremely desperate straits.

They were among the few families to escape, and would spend the rest of the war in desperate straits.

"But I didn't anticipate being in the desperate straits we are right now."

It was a measure of our desperate straits, that he would attempt such a thing.