I am sorry for individuals and families in desperate circumstances.
It wouldn't be right to take advantage of her simply because they'd been thrown together in what were, after all, desperate circumstances.
Working mothers - then and now - have found a variety of ways to care for their children under desperate circumstances.
Her manners alone must be enough to drive him away in less desperate circumstances; she had none to speak of.
He'd have to be dead not to appreciate it, however desperate his circumstances.
The desperate circumstances in the camp influenced his pictures of that time.
Escaping without free hands was possible only under exceptional and desperate circumstances.
Then again, who's to say what we would do under desperate circumstances?
Only a man in desperate circumstances would go that far.
And under the desperate game-closing circumstances of this case, what else could the officials believe?