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Examples of despair


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Migration is taking place, and we can understand men, despairing of the future in this area, who are leaving.
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I am told that he has almost miraculously managed to raise funds when others of a less optimistic nature might well have despaired.
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They are, and one despairs of knowing when they are to be improved.
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We should consider the hopes and despairs of the real persons behind the figures.
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All the councillors in my local authority are despairing because they do not know what to do.
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A pessimist is only a man who, having set out those difficulties, despairs of ever overcoming them.
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However, that kind of approach requires such a revolution in government thinking that one despairs of it ever happening.
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We know today that that despairing nation in 1933 is now the richest and most powerful nation in the world.
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However, the last thing we should be is despairing.
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We are not despairing; it would not he forgivable on this subject to lose hope.
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Returning officers up and down the country despaired at the process.
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He is despairing at the situation of two of his patients.
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They inhabit estates that are despairing places in which to live and raise families.
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I have always despaired of some teachers who really think that the education system exists for the most able pupils and no one else.
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Fines are one measure, but one despairs at times of the attitudes of the courts.
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I have shared with them their despairs and their hopes, their tragedies and their disenchantment with this policy.
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I realise that such treatment is contained in no medical text, but everyone connected with the hospital despairs of the planning paralysis.
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He rather despaired about the particular example he quoted.
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However, one despairs of international agreement when you see what has been done to the whales.
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Her life was despaired of for a considerable time.
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Despairing, tried by distrust and trickery on the one hand and afraid to act for the necessity of not giving if it can be helped.
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If one was critical then, one must be despairing now.
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He despaired because, despite the encouragement that he gave to big business, he did not get the response that he was looking for.
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If there are cuts in child benefit in real terms compounded on top, one despairs for the future of our poor families.
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All of us have letters from those women, despairing little notes describing their miserably inadequate resources.
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Experts have been working for years on drawing up these texts and are despairing of ever being able to mobilise policies.
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He painted a very sorry picture of agriculture, indeed it was really a despairing one.
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One despairs that they will ever act constructively and champion the cause of the individual, rather than big brother.
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When an argument of that sort is brought forward, one despairs of ever getting any just or fair decision.
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Other people, including leaders of the private sector, are now despairing.
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They are aspects which are very often overlooked when we are despairing generally at what seems to be the disunity of the world.
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People would be better off accepting that fact and not despairing.
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He told me that at times he despairs of the paper situation.
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His speech was full of witticism, full of innuendo; the sort of speech that despairs really to meet the arguments put forward from these benches.
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The years of the slump were bad enough and a great many people despaired at that time.
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He despaired of the same old arguments for high inflation, high unemployment and deteriorating industrial relations.
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I suspect that, having read it, they despaired of having anything with which to attack us.
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I have heard that repeatedly over the past few years—in despairing tones, from ministerial colleague.
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Senior officers talk in despairing terms about being unable to maintain control.
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If that were the problem, the crisis would be grave and the prognosis could only be despairing.
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I am not despaired of securing agreement from the profession with regard to the level of the judge, although there is a little disagreement now.
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My speech has been impassioned, but not despairing.
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He said that at times he despairs at the way in which the country deals with fundamental issues.
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The war that we want fought is a war against those despairing social conditions that give rise to war.
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They have despaired of being able to buy their own homes.
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We despaired of a solution in the reasonably near future.
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I am becoming more and more despairing that a political solution can be arrived at.
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Practitioners in my constituency are despairing of putting in applications.
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In his two despairing paragraphs at the end he said that defence public expenditure was not under control.
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I am not yet despairing on this matter.
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I am shocked that my noble friend should ever be despairing of either lawyers or the law.
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He despairs of getting anything out of you.
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Many farmers despaired at the complications and the escalation in price that ensued in the delays involved in getting prior approval.
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A lady telephoned me before nine o'clock this morning despairing because her parents-in-law would not be adequately housed.
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Licensees have now despaired of comprehensive reform and have set their sights much lower.
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When one thinks of how little interest the public at large takes in education, one almost despairs for the future of education.
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They are disorganised, disadvantaged and in many cases despairing.
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He despairs of receiving his inheritance and of the seemingly endless legal wrangle.
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People have despaired from time to time.
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If, in fact, they accept responsibility let them please define the area of that responsibility and give some message of hope to people who are despairing at the present time.
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If this problem of the arms burden cannot be solved until international agreement is reached, one despairs of understanding how public confidence is to be bolstered up in the meantime.
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Water and electricity supplies have been restored to some extent, but little more has been done, and the people who have been affected are despairing of the delay.
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You can find in every country, over and over again, occasions when the men of the country have despaired, and when some heroic woman has roused them.
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Prison officers despaired of maintaining normal discipline.
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There has been much evidence available that many stalwart supporters of the film industry—many gifted people—have despaired of its organisation and have given up in total disillusionment.
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There are large users of steel in this country who have despaired of getting the quality and the delivery that they need, and have therefore turned to overseas sources.
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The cotton industry is not despairing.
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We should not forget that centuries ago those who sought refuge in monasteries because they despaired of the world pre- cipitated by their action the advent of the dark ages.
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Were they despairing in 1914?
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The second was that it was a failure that damaged the machinery to such an extent that many of its best friends are despairing of the effect of it.
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I think he must be rather despairing.
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Were they despairing in 1870?
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Every headmaster despairs of them.
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They are not despairing; they are angry.
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Every one of us who has been a parent will have despaired at least once, looked at the ceiling and wished that someone would give us a hand.
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We despaired of it, too.
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He gave figures showing what our exports were to some foreign country, and he said it was so depressing that he almost despaired of the future.
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I do not complain about the criticisms that have been made this afternoon, but that is an argument not for despairing of that process but for continuing strenuously with it.
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When they despaired, the emperor saw a beautiful gazelle off in the distance.
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Vulnerable and trying to relearn how to use them properly, he despairs about how little emotion other people feel, observing them to be mechanical animals.
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Whether this is communitarianism, anarchism, nihilism, simple despair or something else is for others to interpret.
Between the covers of this book lies both despair and hope.
He is not claiming that one must begin in a spiritual state of despair.
My suggestions that another interpretation might be considered, in which the despairing woman was begging to be treated with respect, never met with agreement.
In numerous works of the era we see the solitary, despairing individual.
I am not the only one who has despaired of explaining away the apparent inconsistency.
His blasphemy is the uncanny expression of a perverse, despairing faith.
Dorian often exemplifies such characteristics as the "fin-de-siècle" individual with his constant desire for new stimuli and somewhat feverish and despairing behaviour.
One historian has called this" a mood of despairing hope".
The mood was despairing, despondent, and war-weary- apathetic rather than rebellious.
Though living saints sought to sense pain, suffering laymen who despaired of medical aid invoked the help of dead miracle-working saints.
While all despaired over the decline of tribal discipline, most administrative officers balked at centralized, inflexible solutions to this problem.
Family members often want to help but feel too troubled, or despairing or simply do not know what to do.
In view of the existing difficulties, one has despaired of the possibility of describing the actual processes by means of differential equations.
However, instead of despairing over the unlikeliness of a womans love for him, he decides to 'prove a villain'.
His acquaintances need not have despaired as much as they seem to have done.
While some squatters bemoaned drunken shepherds on their sprees, others despaired of their inability to rise above the squalor of shepherding to become thrifty yeomen farmers, even squatters.
There is no possibility of any final resolution to attenuate the sinister character of this lesson in despair.
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