41.   Employers would start bidding up wages in an increasingly desperate attempt to find good workers, and that in turn would trigger an overall rise in prices.

42.   Exhausted, dehydrated and hungry, they literally had cast their fates to the wind in a desperate attempt to escape from Haiti.

43.   Forty-one people perished in a desperate attempt to reach higher ground.

44.   He said his Lo lust was a desperate attempt to recover a lost childhood love.

45.   He is presumably treated with a variety of aggressive psychiatric procedures in a desperate attempt to preserve his shattered mind.

46.   He spends most of the film endlessly shoveling sand in a desperate attempt to avoid being buried alive.

47.   He spies a flare in the distance, and leaps onto his dogsled in a desperate attempt to outrace a gigantic, rolling carpet of snow.

48.   I detect a truly desperate attempt to identify a pulse ticking inside the Celtics.

49.   In a desperate attempt to warm himself, Byrd was nearly poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes from his stove.

50.   In a desperate attempt to drum up support for its slate, the incumbent board promised its largest shareholder, Fidelity Investments, that Hough would resign.