And then, if the authorities are right, their yearning for the good life drove them to a desperate step.

When her son dies she takes a desperate step.

He glanced at Fizz's alert face and took a desperate step.

Ivan managed a single desperate step before his brother and the boulder buried him.

He told himself, over and over again, that stark necessity was driving him to take this desperate step.

He shot a glance at Stahlmaske and took another desperate step in his hurried plan.

And why would a mortal man take the desperate step of attempting to ambush a god?

He took a desperate step, trusting in his assumed character to avert suspicion.

"This seems to me to be a desperate step, and I don't think it bodes well."

However, if what you tell me of Ardneh is true, we may have to take the most desperate steps, and quickly.