"It's a desperate act, but what alternative did he have?"

It was a desperate act by a man who meant to earn his pay.

"It is the desperate act of two men who have no credible explanation for what they did," she said.

What addiction could lead a parent to that kind of desperate act?

Whatever has driven you to this desperate act, I need to know about it.

Because of her desperate act, the boundary to this empire had lost its power and failed.

To him, it sounded like a desperate act born of guilt.

"It was the police and your uncle who drove her to the desperate act."

I think he realized that tackling him was a desperate act.

One of the men commits a desperate act during the film.