Each one carries the same message: good things happen when all kinds of people come together in desperate circumstances.

Amid these dramatic appeals came a number of genuine claims from persons who, for one reason or another, found themselves in desperate circumstances.

He described him as an exceptional soldier, one of the 'rare breeds who act with unhesitating courage in the most desperate circumstances'.

Finally, to finish on some wishful thinking; in what appears to be desperate circumstances, hope must play its part.

She would not have ruled out intervening, even in the most desperate circumstances.