"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The peasants, desperate for food, stormed the granary, but the Party members defended it by opening fire, killing and wounding the villagers.
- The 1970s saw considerable migration from Telana, as desperate peasants went in search of work.
- The guerrillas offered desperate peasants utopian solutions, and promised easy victories.
- Rising food prices, the loss of public and church lands, and the loss of feudal common rights pushed many desperate peasants to banditry.
- It is the path followed by hundreds of thousands of desperate peasants every year.
- As desperate peasants uproot trees, leaving many areas almost completely denuded, what little remains of the region's topsoil goes out to sea.
- But in recent weeks there have been eight attempted "invasions" of local towns by desperate peasants.
- Peru's Government then blocked that move out of fear of driving unemployed and desperate peasants into the ranks of the Shining Path.
- You would think from the Western news reports that Kabul is populated only by desperate peasants, many of them warlike, and government bureaucrats and soldiers.
- Mostly desperate peasants, fighting for their children's lives.
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