Would she, in short, have been likely to take desperate measures against him?

I asked him why and he said it was desperate measures.

It was a desperate measure, yet Model saw no other course.

It was, instead, a last and desperate measure to bring an end to war.

"For those of us who came in late, how go the desperate measures, really?"

We are facing times of action and perhaps desperate measures.

The ship is one of four sent as a last desperate measure.

Looks like a desperate measure to get it ready for Christmas.

Going public had been a desperate measure on Rome's part.

Still, the man's plight seemed to call for desperate measures.

By the time Robert reached his majority, desperate measures were called for.

"A lot of people have been driven to desperate measures to get around," he said.

But by 1613 even more desperate measures were in contemplation.

He knew that this called for urgent and desperate measures.

So she opted for desperate measures to get him to change his image.

So they had tried desperate measures, such as colonization of near space.

They're pretty desperate measures, but the situation calls for them."

Inside the emergency room John decides on a desperate measure.

He even tried the desperate measure of getting drunk to make himself sleep, but that did not work either.

I find it hard to believe that she hated the world enough to think of such desperate measures.

No need to explain how often being around Richard ended in such "desperate measures."

What he did say was, "Let us hope, gentlemen, that we never have the need for such desperate measures."

Sometimes desperate measures were required to keep body and sanity together.

In an economy near collapse, people may take desperate measures against such a wealthy local.

"The fact that he has failed to involve me may drive him to more desperate measures."