1.   Fights erupted outside supermarkets as shoppers battled for parking spaces in desperate efforts to stock up with canned goods.

2.   In a desperate effort to camouflage falling rents and values landlords have been offering inducements to tenants.

3.   In their distress, factories and workers engage in barter in a desperate effort to survive.

4.   The fox made a desperate effort to get away.

5.   The independence wars are not freak events but desperate efforts at cultural survival.

6.   Then, with a desperate effort threw himself bodily away.

7.   The general made one last desperate effort to retrieve the situation.

8.   By early April both forces were poised to take the city, while on the diplomatic front Sevan was making desperate efforts to broker a peaceful transfer of power.

9.   Arrese and Salas Pombo made desperate efforts to convince military and Church leaders that the proposed laws were not a disguised attempt to make Spain a totalitarian state.

10.   The policies of the metropolitan powers ranged from thoughts of withdrawal to the desperate efforts of the French to hold Algeria.