At first, it doesn't seem necessary to be on guard against people who are equally desperate for rescue, but threats to life crop up without notice.

Chip would be desperate to keep his father alive, Peggy equally desperate to kill her father-in-law while she had the chance.

Often the fields had already been turned over by others in equally desperate circumstances, and we returned home with empty baskets.

All that was left of the Keeper was an equally desperate need for survival.

They have reacted in equally desperate ways.

A few years ago, Russians seemed desperate to hear the message of freedom, and their Government equally desperate to block it.

But Blade and his companions had an equally desperate need to keep that alarm from being given.

They had also put together an equally desperate escape plan.

And each has just one subject - the desperate search for a mate in a city of equally desperate strangers.

I founded an organisation to offer help to suicidal or equally desperate people.