41.  The timing of the attack prompted many Republicans to suggest that the president ordered the air strikes in a desperate effort to save his political life.

42.  This deal was worked out under former Apple chief executive Michael Spindler, in a desperate effort to expand the Mac market.

43.  Panathinaikos besieged the PAOK area in a desperate effort to equalize.

44.  After months of desperate efforts to revive the weak rupiah, it was unusual for the government to fret that the currency might climb too far.

45.  Another, a newborn, swam feebly to the beach near the Erakor Resort where desperate efforts were being made to save it.

46.  Both women were close to tears when they recounted their desperate efforts to save the company from collapse.

47.  But production was hampered by nationwide power cuts imposed mid-year in a desperate effort to save electricity.

48.  But South Korea is running against time in its desperate efforts to resolve its financial crisis by winning rollovers of its short-term debts due in the coming months.

49.  Desperate efforts to free the bus failed again Monday as a second dynamite blast intended to dislodge a huge slab of rock proved as ineffective as the first.

50.  For some, the desperate effort was too late.