Desperate

Desperately

In a desperate manner without regard to danger or safety recklessly extremely as the troops fought desperately...

Desperation

The act of despairing or becoming desperate a giving up of hope...

Desperate debt

Desperate debt, a hopeless debt; an irrecoverable obligation....

Without hope given to despair hopeless...

the name of a town and a battle fought there in World War II 1940 when 330000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England...

Dunkirk

the name of a town and a battle fought there in World War II 1940 when 330000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk in a desperate retreat under enemy fire Most of the forces were safely evacuated to England...

Declaration of London, 1909

Declaration of London, 1909. A suggested International agreement to settle doubts concerning inter alia the application of the doctrines of contraband, neutral destination and continuous voyage. A list of three classes of goods was made: (1) absolute contraband or munitions of war; (2) conditionally contraband, or foodstuffs, forage, money, railway materials, fuel, lubricants, barbed wire and optical instruments; (3) not contraband, or any raw textile materials, rubber, hides, metallic ores, earths. Eleven countries signed the convention. With a prescience justified by the developments of science and the uncontrollable nature of a desperate war, the House of Lords refused to ratify it. In practice the declaration was followed by Great Britain and other belligerents with increasing alterations until it was formally, and finally abandoned by this country in April, 1916. A modified list of Articles absolutely or conditionally contraband was issued shortly after. See Hall or Lawrence on In...

Exannual roll

Exannual roll. In the old way of exhibiting sheriff's accounts, the illeviable fines and desperate debts were transcribed into this roll, which was yearly read, to see what might be recovered, Jac. Law Dict...

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