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Sentence Examples York council planners are making a last-ditch attempt to stop an amusement arcade being opened in a city high street. In the meantime I am going to replace my blood with Lucozade as a last-ditch attempt to make it through the week without expiring. Arbitrators have been called in as a last-ditch attempt to avert strike action by hundreds of Yorkshire miners. Not even their spirited last-ditch attempt to corner the gay market can save them. A Lord and Lady are leading a last-ditch attempt to save a 19th century building from demolition. They threw everything they had at the last-ditch rescue effort as Currie struggled to move play more than five yards from their own line. A year ago today, she was undergoing a transatlantic bone marrow transplant in a last-ditch attempt to beat leukaemia. A last-ditch attempt to reverse the move was narrowly defeated after a furious town hall debate. The last-ditch attempt by the so-called Old Guard of the committee now appears to have back-fired. Station staff were so determined to rescue the tortoiseshell cat they even stopped a train in a last-ditch attempt. In a last-ditch attempt to get the ball rolling, we contacted our solicitor in Dublin for advice. Cotswold people are urged to join a last-ditch attempt to save the Alderman Knight special school in Tewkesbury. Some even have to be given morphine in a last-ditch attempt to cure their addiction. She enrolled on the training scheme as a last-ditch attempt to do something with her life. But there is still time for the papers to make last-ditch attempts to rally readers to their causes. Talks began on July 14 between the union and employers in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the pay deal. And she has come to the American capital in a last-ditch attempt to preserve her people's unique way of life. This is our last-ditch attempt to put labels and pictures on cigarette packs which reflect the true cost of smoking. And thanks to Darlene O'Donnell, the manager, who was able to accommodate us in a last-ditch way. Everybody is athletic enough to make that last-ditch tackle or cover that gap when someone is a bit tired. Show More Sentences It is to the German Foreign Minister's credit that he recently sanctioned this last-ditch measure. Unfortunately, this wasn't any bold declaration of reckless, impetuous love, it's a last-ditch attempt to not get deported. He dances through again and is denied only by a last-ditch goal-line clearance. A school headteacher is to go on a mercy mission to Westminster in a last-ditch attempt to save seven of his pupils from deportation. Is Treasury Board trying a last-ditch attempt to persuade PSAC members to accept less than they're owed before the Tribunal reports? About 360 students voted to unionize last March as a last-ditch attempt to pressure the administration over low pay and working conditions. Both are last-ditch measures to disrupt a missile engagement, not to prevent tracking. First, that the regime might use them against rebels or civilians in a last-ditch act of desperation. A last-ditch bid to halt new charges being brought in for a car park at Holland-on-Sea has been thrown out. The Saudi No23, whose name I don't know, hares past him and hooks a last-ditch cross behind the goalkeeper and across the face of goal. They won the games in a photo finish, pulling ahead of the previous year's winners with a gutsy last-ditch surge. By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void. A last-ditch attempt to persuade an Amsterdam court to stop the company's supervisory board from vetoing the sale yesterday came to nothing. A last-ditch bid to provide a skatepark on Rayleigh's King George V playing field is being made by the town council. The future looks bleak but she reckons without teenage daughter Sorrel's last-ditch attempts to save them both. Looks like that last-ditch and blatantly transparent attempt at a smear campaign didn't work at all. This sale of assets seems to me a last-ditch attempt to bail out the government in the short term. Engineering is countenanced only as a desperate last-ditch response to climatic catastrophe. There were last-ditch attempts to negotiate directly with Milosevic through another visit by Richard Holbrooke. Results of an autopsy on the bottlenose whale, which didn't survive a last-ditch rescue operation, were released today. Show More Sentences Wenger meets Samir Nasri today in a last-ditch effort to persuade him to sign a new contract. Or rather, they allow all of these to flourish, instead of forcing us back into the last-ditch defence of tightly defined, monolithic, primordial allegiances. The push for integration was really a last-ditch effort to fight against resource inequality. We have not quite reached this point yet and today, hopefully, if we make a last-ditch effort, we will not miss out on this historic opportunity. Another project was seen as a last-ditch effort to avoid impending labour disputes and an adversarial and antagonistic relationship. President Prodi also wrote to President Bush in a last-ditch effort to persuade the US not to go down the protectionist road. There is no doubt that the compromise we reached on the authorisation chapter represented a last-ditch effort at reaching an agreement. The Supreme Court is expected to rule shortly on a last-ditch effort to appeal the Ontario decision guaranteeing marriage equality. Mr Putin's public crossness may turn out to be a last-ditch negotiating tactic. It was not a moment too soon, for Grant's army had begun to draw up for a last-ditch stand with its back to the miry wastes of Snake Creek. Her parents transferred her to a hospital in Manhattan where last-ditch efforts to treat her were of no avail. Substitute Stephen Hughes had a header cleared off the line after a goalmouth scramble and Pr¨o was deprived by a last-ditch challenge. This is a last-ditch push by these companies to entrench themselves in a changing energy market. His lunging blocks and last-ditch tackles were emblematic of the collective US resistance. More disciplined, heroic and last-ditch defending. He announced two last-ditch initiatives to avert doom. One wonders what they wanted to achieve, apart from a last-ditch struggle of pointless resistance that could have no effect on the process in progress. Subsequently, the meeting in Camp David in the summer of 2000 and the last-ditch attempts to find a negotiated solution at Taba in January 2001 also failed to bring a lasting peace. A third way in which human rights figure prominently in Argentina's defense in the Aguas Argentinas arbitration is the Government's last-ditch defense of necessity. Finally in June 2010, in a last-ditch concession, management agreed to appoint a champion to watch out for the interests of English translators but decided that the champion would be at the TR-5 level. Show More Sentences In that connection, the Special Rapporteur appeared to have been inundated with allegations emanating from pro-insurgent groups in a last-ditch attempt to derail the national reconciliation process. The intervention of the Danish Prime Minister during the last forty-eight hours to manage the debates even though he was not prepared to do so was a last-ditch desperate measure. The last-ditch United Nations summit in 2005 was also unable to avoid this fate, so to speak, since the chapter on disarmament and non-proliferation was removed from the final document. I was one of 32 Members of this Parliament who took a private legal action before the French courts last year in a last-ditch attempt to get more tickets for fans across Europe. Put aside the last-ditch defense of the Bush tax rates for the few. But critics said it was a last-ditch effort by Mahuad to stay in power, and that abandoning the sucre would devastate many Ecuadoreans' sucre-based savings. Her husband, Ethan, books them a vacation retreat in a last-ditch effort to repair their relationship. By 5pm that day, after Mayday calls went unanswered, they were forced to abandon ship, torching the wheelhouse as a last-ditch smoke signal and praying it would be seen. At a meeting in South Africa tomorrow, campaigners trying to protect the gorillas will make a last-ditch attempt to persuade Congolese government ministers to intervene. Maloney had another opportunity when he rounded the keeper but miskicked and then minutes later was denied again, this time by a last-ditch David McLaren blocking tackle. But the company is understood to have held a last-ditch meeting with the Competition Commission to argue its case thought to include a carve-up of a 479-store portfolio. Greece is in last-ditch talks with its international creditors on what reforms it is to implement to get new funding from the creditors to avoid bankruptcy. They are using our money around this campaign because I believe this is their last-ditch effort to stop members in decertifying. As a last-ditch effort, they hired a stripper. We found an early willow flycatcher for 104, and sped back across the river to The Yards Park for a last-ditch effort at house finches. A last-ditch effort to salvage trade negotiations has failed. He sent flowers in a last-ditch effort to keep her from leaving. He said senior Conservative politicians have spoken out against the European Arrest Warrant and he made an unsuccessful last-ditch appeal for their help. Is that some kind of last-ditch picturesque archaism? As the clock ticked down, Daniel intercepted a last-ditch Brazilian attack and fired towards an open goal only to see Malwee's reserve keeper, Bage, rush off the bench and kick the ball away. Show More Sentences It came down to a last-ditch attempt from Sunderland as they went for a long three-point shot to level the scores, but missed. But despite a massive and manful last-ditch effort, the Chinese could not find the equaliser as the suddenly refreshed Colombians slammed the door shut. In a last-ditch effort, he sent her the necklace. The PSAC has been negotiating with Parks Canada since October 2003 and began Conciliation Board hearings today as the last-ditch effort to come to a settlement. Special legislation ought to be a last-ditch effort. So as we approach the deadline, you will see consumers ramping up and making a last-ditch effort to make those improvements and to get the second audit done, so they can collect their rebate. Certainly, despite the lucklessness of Coventry's last-ditch defeat to Ipswich Town on Monday night, there were more than just rumblings of discontent at Highfield Road. A last-ditch attempt to secure a compromise between DUP leader and First Minister Peter Robinson and Sinn Fein Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness failed. A BAND of eco-warriors spent six hours chained to a JCB digger yesterday in a last-ditch effort to save 200 mature trees from a Tesco development. Nothing came of this last-ditch overture and Lehman went under in the fall of 2008, very nearly taking the financialised infrastructure of global capitalism with it. It wasn't all gloom for The Fugue's trainer John Gosden, who staged a Haydock 1-2 with Pomology and Sultanina just before Belle D'Or's last-ditch Sandown win. Examples from Classical Literature The valorous retreat of the French and their last-ditch stand on the Marne compelled admiration. I knew then that he had already bought forty thousand, and that this was the last-ditch stand. They were, however, potentially so capable of making things worse that they would not be tried save as last-ditch measures. He's been the people's golden boy, their last-ditch hope for peace. A FIXBY woman is sparing no expense in a last-ditch effort to find her beloved Siamese cat. The score that day at the Millennium Stadium was 26-25, with Wales' last-ditch efforts to secure a late, kickable penalty for Gavin Henson in vain. 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