How To Use Last-ditch In A Sentence
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The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
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Everybody is athletic enough to make that last-ditch tackle or cover that gap when someone is a bit tired.
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Specialist rescue units were called in a last-ditch effort to save him.
The Sun
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LightSquared Inc. may seek to exchange its wireless airwave licenses for similar ones operated by the U.S. Department of Defense in a last-ditch effort to revive its mobile broadband service, according to people familiar with the company's plans.
Falcone's Plan B: Swapping Airwaves
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This change of course is a last-ditch bid to wrest that influence back.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is thought to be considering a last-ditch diplomatic effort to curb construction before January.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many likened the incident to the "Day of Camels" clashes in Tahrir Square on Feb. 2, when allegedly paid "baltagiya," or thugs—some of whom rode horses and camels—marauded through an antiregime rally in a last-ditch effort to violently break up demonstrations without using official force.
Cairo Clashes Show Backlash
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Obama, his own self, can be found careening around the country like an over-caffeinated Chihuahua engaged in a last-ditch effort to sell the bill to what you might call his hesitant posse.
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Arbitrators have been called in as a last-ditch attempt to avert strike action by hundreds of Yorkshire miners.
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My husband invited me to a marriage ministry at our church as a last-ditch effort to reconcile our relationship.
Christianity Today
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She enrolled on the training scheme as a last-ditch attempt to do something with her life.
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By default, Giacometti's figures are read, even today, as symbols of the existential condition of humanity, a last-ditch stand before the void.
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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.
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But there is still time for the papers to make last-ditch attempts to rally readers to their causes.
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Dark and saturnine, he is a strong screen presence with natural brooding ability, and he holds things steady when a last-ditch attempt to end on a thrill causes the film to falter.
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Others are the kind of lumpen proletariat that autocracies scoop up in a last-ditch effort to survive: convicted violent criminals, poorly educated young unemployed men, and no small number of sadists, sycophants, and psychopaths.
Larry Diamond: Mubarak Must Go
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It was very much a last-ditch effort for me.
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His two last-ditch clearances were vital.
The Sun
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Talks began on July 14 between the union and employers in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the pay deal.
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It's perfect for a last-ditch attempt at seduction.
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The smear campaigns were shown to be just that - the last-ditch effort of desperate individuals to throw the vote.
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Only a last-ditch tackle by Song prevented Raul from scoring.
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Engineering is countenanced only as a desperate last-ditch response to climatic catastrophe.
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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.
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A year ago today, she was undergoing a transatlantic bone marrow transplant in a last-ditch attempt to beat leukaemia.
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Gunners made a last-ditch bid to keep the France ace.
The Sun
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a last-ditch attempt
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As part of his budget cuts, the government is expected to remove a 150 million kina educational subsidy that lowered school fees, introduced by the Morauta government in a last-ditch effort to shore up its electoral chances.
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
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Obviously a last-ditch attempt to prove his loyalty to the club.
The Sun
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The UN General Secretary flew in in a last-ditch effort to save the talks.
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His appointment was a last-ditch effort to rescue the failing school, which was facing closure.
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
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A last-ditch attempt to persuade an Amsterdam court to stop the company's supervisory board from vetoing the sale yesterday came to nothing.
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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.
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And she has come to the American capital in a last-ditch attempt to preserve her people's unique way of life.
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The gods of the world are having trouble keeping the demons at bay, and so they come up with a last-ditch scheme - to resurrect a dead hero.
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The company has phoned round small shareholders over the past few weeks in a last-ditch attempt to drum up sufficient support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cotswold people are urged to join a last-ditch attempt to save the Alderman Knight special school in Tewkesbury.
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It remains to be seen if last-ditch attempts to sway the vote gain any support.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a last-ditch attempt to get the ball rolling, we contacted our solicitor in Dublin for advice.
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The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
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Because last week a last-ditch attempt to save the centre failed.
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Researchers hope to make a last-ditch effort to stabilize the Yangtze ecosystem and prevent further extinctions.
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He dances through again and is denied only by a last-ditch goal-line clearance.
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 30 ft long wire mesh fence - similar to those used at tennis courts - is a last-ditch attempt to end more than five years of harassment from a gang of youths.
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From the perspective of later developments, the Enlightened Despotism of the eighteenth century seems like a last-ditch attempt to match the personal rule of hereditary princes to the needs of the modern state.
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A last-ditch rebel attempt to end the siege last month ended in failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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A last-ditch attempt to reverse the move was narrowly defeated after a furious town hall debate.
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The play, written by Rattigan in 1963, takes place on an autumn evening in 1934 as Gregor Antonescu ( Frank Langella ), a finagler on the brink of economic collapse and arrest, visits the Greenwich Village apartment of his son, Basil (Adam Driver), for one last-ditch, furtive business meeting to save his own hide.
A Drama of Vice and Men
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Station staff were so determined to rescue the tortoiseshell cat they even stopped a train in a last-ditch attempt.
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Last-ditch efforts to avert war in the second week of March were to no avail.
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About 360 students voted to unionize last March as a last-ditch attempt to pressure the administration over low pay and working conditions.
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The possibility of a last-ditch on the part of the enemy should not be lightly dismissed.
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Its last-ditch delaying tactic was to ask to see my boarding pass.
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In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat, he resigned from the leadership.
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The battle has been portrayed as a last-ditch stand by Scottish patriots sacrificing themselves in the cause of freedom.
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His switch should be confirmed this morning - despite a last-ditch effort by the champs to keep him last night.
The Sun
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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.
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The auction is a last-ditch attempt to salvage the heavily loss-making steelworks.
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Only a last-ditch tackle by Song prevented Raul from scoring.
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York council planners are making a last-ditch attempt to stop an amusement arcade being opened in a city high street.
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The lost novel was rewritten in a few days, thanks to the daily fanfold printouts that I made as a last-ditch backup.
Rainy Days and Mondays
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They believe there is a war between right and wrong, faith and falsehood, civilisation and barbarity and that all tactics are justified in the last-ditch struggle to defend what they believe in.
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As a last-ditch effort they initiate very unpredictable movements, fluttering their wings irregularly so that they tumble around in the sky, making them a difficult target to catch.
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He is understood to have offered his creditors a repayment plan in a last-ditch attempt to stave off bankruptcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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A last-ditch bid to provide a skatepark on Rayleigh's King George V playing field is being made by the town council.
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Unfortunately, this wasn't any bold declaration of reckless, impetuous love, it's a last-ditch attempt to not get deported.
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In a last-ditch effort to avoid a lifetime of medication, his psychiatrist prescribes sport: not just any sport, but the boofy, collar-bone-busting game of rugby league.
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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.
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Matt Lauer and co. have gone through Internet abbreviations and have provided subtitles so that we can all rest easy, remain unalarmed, and not have to stock up on heavy things at the Home Depot in a last-ditch effort to beat away the young.
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The UN General Secretary flew in in a last-ditch effort to save the talks.
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Not even their spirited last-ditch attempt to corner the gay market can save them.
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He is understood to have offered his creditors a repayment plan in a last-ditch attempt to stave off bankruptcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is just a last-ditch attempt to stop us leaving the EU.
The Sun
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They met in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences.
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Tories fail to halt pedestrian plan A last-ditch attempt to delay the introduction of pedestrianisation in Darlington town centre was defeated.
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Proponents say geoengineering should at least be considered, if only as a last-ditch tactic.
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In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat, he resigned from the leadership.
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The last-ditch attempt by the so-called Old Guard of the committee now appears to have back-fired.
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
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A last-ditch bid to halt new charges being brought in for a car park at Holland-on-Sea has been thrown out.
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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.
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A last-ditch effort to save a £36m UK project that is developing a revolutionary treatment for cystic fibrosis is to be launched.
Cystic fibrosis cure under threat from £6m cash crisis
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They were expected to renew the duel last night at a meeting called in a last-ditch effort to resurrect the ceasefire.
Times, Sunday Times
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The possibility of a last-ditch on the part of the enemy should not be lightly dismissed.
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Given the number of last-ditch Zionists that President Obama has surrounded himself with, Rahm Immanuel being the most influential, is it any wonder that Obama would appoint someone like Ross to be “special adviser” on Iran.
Wonk Room » Keep Your Friends Close, And Dennis Ross Closer
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Looks like that last-ditch and blatantly transparent attempt at a smear campaign didn't work at all.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Chronicle joined the lengthening list of imperiled newspapers as its owner set out to purge the payroll and slash other expenses in a last-ditch effort to rever ...
San Francisco Chronicle In Danger Of Closing
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This woman had gone to see her ex-husband in a last-ditch attempt to ‘give it another go’.
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Some even have to be given morphine in a last-ditch attempt to cure their addiction.
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He is thought to be considering a last-ditch diplomatic effort to curb construction before January.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tens of thousands of motorists have also been bombarding MPs in a last-ditch attempt to scupper the increase.
The Sun
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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.
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The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
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In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat, he resigned from the leadership.
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She underwent a heart transplant in a last-ditch attempt to save her.
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Second, the last-ditch attempts to save Bangkok by opening the flood gates to inundate surrounding areas reflect a certain entitled mentality among the Thai elite.
Yingluck's First Test
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Tens of thousands of motorists have also been bombarding MPs in a last-ditch attempt to scupper the increase.
The Sun
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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.
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The last-ditch effort to bridge the gap between richer and poorer nations failed amid recriminations on both sides of the wealth divide.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Made some crucial last-ditch tackles.
The Sun
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She underwent a heart transplant in a last-ditch attempt to save her.
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Quinn, her husband and her friends are in no doubt that Blunkett's hand was in the revelation, as part of a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save the relationship by provoking her husband to end the marriage.
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International leaders will meet at the annual Munich security conference tomorrow in what appears to be a last-ditch effort to resurrect the process.
Times, Sunday Times
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They met in a last-ditch attempt to resolve their differences.
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A Lord and Lady are leading a last-ditch attempt to save a 19th century building from demolition.
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At length, in spite of his antagonist's agility, the bear managed to get his "holt," and puss, wrapped in his strong arms, was practically whipped; not without protest -- she was a "last-ditch" warrior.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters
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So finally, in a last-ditch attempt to salvage the exercise as a whole, the following workshop activity was developed.
