31.   Now, in its desperate efforts to save that system from imminent collapse, the Argentine government has imposed drastic restrictions on economic freedom.

32.   Once they even banished him from the floor for a day in a desperate effort to throttle him.

33.   Over the last year, the company pursued increasingly desperate efforts to get out from its problems.

34.   The fence is designed to close the porous line between Israelis and Palestinians in a desperate effort to stem the tide of Palestinian suicide bombers.

35.   The embattled Yeltsin administration held talks with parliamentary and other political leaders this weekend and on Monday in a desperate effort to avert a full-scale political crisis.

36.   The letters trace a desperate effort by Goerdeler to contact Churchill and to win his support for an effort to overthrow Hitler.

37.   The men asserted that they had taken action in a desperate effort to gain asylum in Britain.

38.   The rebellion may have been a desperate effort by Taliban loyalists to take a few Northern Alliance soldiers with them while committing suicide.

39.   The state of Utah has twisted itself into gravity-defying contortion in a desperate effort to keep homosexuals at bay.

40.   The story is really about love, deceit and, in the end, a desperate effort by Borges to escape the moral consequences of what he has seen.