The reason, he says, is the desperate state of Peru's economy.

Look around you, at the desperate state people are in.

"You gave us a lecture on the desperate state of this overcrowded world, and passed out."

If so, I was going to be in a desperate state.

Even in his increasingly desperate state he was aware that the risk of infection cut both ways.

She was in a desperate state because of the baby.

The desperate state of affairs has improved somewhat in the last two years.

Consider the desperate current state of the Soviet economy.

Two were found in a desperate state a month after the wreck, the third having succumbed.

Oh, what a desperate state of affairs this awful Earth had produced!