How To Use Once and for all In A Sentence

  • Richard comes across Mel in a bar and drags her outside to demand his credit cards back and frighten her off once and for all.
  • Much of this branch of your argument proceeds from unstated assumptions about the content of the ‘once and for all’ rule.
  • It was before we learnt once and for all that the financial edifice erected over the past two decades was rotten at the core. Times, Sunday Times
  • Together, they are close to finding a way to vaporise the nasties once and for all.
  • The tone of her voice was designed to stamp on this topic of conversation once and for all.
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  • He proved once and for all he's not a fluke, that he's willing to bust his striated glutes in the gym.
  • Nobody seems interested in destroying, once and for all, the vicious circle in which this "vagary" of international fraud entraps us. January 2006
  • Such a get-up might de-throne me once and for all, or at the very least earn a few "graceless" points with the neighbor who thinks I'm so stuffy, so reine-like. French Word-A-Day:
  • If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty.
  • The vision of what we're trying to get is go out and give the hornets nest a few whacks and get them all out in the open and have it out with them once and for all.
  • Tuesday should settle once and for all one of the dirtiest political battles of all time. The Sun
  • I'm sure Max is writing in good faith here, so let's address this tiresome argument once and for all.
  • Both men become embroiled in a chilling conspiracy designed to destroy the power of the andat once and for all. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
  • It's time to wipe the floor with those twerps once and for all.
  • And tonight party backbenchers and Peers will decide if it is time to kill off the battered Premier once and for all. The Sun
  • What we need is to find alternate sources of energy and slowly end our dependance on oil once and for all. Obama energy plan would open up Gulf drilling, could win GOP support
  • It is formed from the term race, which prudery permits, and it expresses once and for all that for which the instinct exists -- not the individual at all, but the race which is to come after him. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
  • Has some modernist thinker sat in a college, chuckling as he invents this ludicrous caricature in order to discredit postmodernism once and for all?
  • Have you summoned the ancient golden strength, to bind me to you once and for all time?
  • But, as a matter of fact, they cannot say sayonara to boats once and for all.
  • We may find out once and for all when this week's groomsmen don them for one ceremony. The Sun
  • Why not once and for all protect gays from discrimination in the workplace?
  • Perhaps I had better tell you once and for all that I refused to go into the turnip and vegetable marrow business.
  • Does not this show, once and for all, that this style of singing (which still has numerous admirers) is instrumental, is unvocal, unsuited to the human voice, and should be abandoned forever? Chopin and Other Musical Essays
  • In 1874 Georg Cantor worked out a system of degrees of infinity that solved the problem once and for all and greatly increased mathematicians' understanding of infinity and set theory.
  • He therefore refused to recognize the Anglo-Portuguese treaty and summoned an international conference to Berlin to settle the African question once and for all.
  • What she would give to punch him on the nose, and flatten once and for all his insulting, devilish assumptions.
  • This independent research provides the hard evidence that explodes the myth once and for all that supermarkets have farmers in an armlock.
  • The old charisma is back and all those rumours of flab injections can be scotched once and for all - until the next time.
  • Our children will never have equal opportunity unless, once and for all, we close the ever-widening achievement gap.
  • And it was at this very moment I resolved to kill her - liquidate her once and for all so that she could never become a challenge to me.
  • You are entering a challenging time of quarrels and conflict that nevertheless will offer you the chance to put an end to a tricky situation once and for all.
  • One of the huge social and biological changes wrought by the invention of the oral contraceptive, the Pill, is that once and for all it divided sex from the act of fertilisation, of conceiving a baby.
  • Its stated goal was to determine once and for all what the master painted and which pictures should be relegated to students, followers, and modern pasticheurs.
  • The tone of her voice was designed to stamp on this topic of conversation once and for all.
  • It is about time the council dealt with this widespread contamination once and for all.
  • Pumping out the water is not a long-term solution, and the project's ultimate aim is to channel the subterranean water away once and for all.
  • The aim of the Scottish anatomist in this showpiece dissection was to prove once and for all that only the lymphatic vessels - in this case, those known as the lacteals in the intestines - and not the veins were capable of absorbing fats.
  • ‘The church must repudiate once and for all the unchristian formula of male superiority-female inferiority,’ wrote Sheila D. Collins.
  • After years of broken promises, public fears must be allayed once and for all.
  • Our intention is to destroy their offensive capability once and for all.
  • He will explain it fully once and for all.
  • I'll set this straight once and for all: dress shoes don't necessarily require laces.
  • We need to settle this once and for all.
  • Under the command of Admiral Firmus Piett from the Star Dreadnought Executor, the Imperial fleet engaged the Rebels in an effort to annihilate them once and for all.
  • All supply people dreamed of a way to balance the books once and for all-without all that trading and shuffling.
  • Could I make an appointment to see her at the Education Office to sort out the dinner money debts once and for all - hopefully.
  • He taught his loyal subjects saying, "People of Benares wholesomeness begins with giving up the five unwholesome actions once and for all.
  • In a tremulous state of dissatisfaction with himself — that any such grisly thought should have dared to obtrude itself upon him in this way — he got up and lit the lamp — re-read this disconcerting item in as cold and reprobative way as he could achieve, feeling that in so doing he was putting anything at which it hinted far from him once and for all. An American Tragedy
  • He was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
  • Now he has to finish his father's work and put the kibosh on this gooey alien scum once and for all!
  • There is need to end the problem of housing allowance arrears once and for all.
  • Proving, once and for all, that there are those who can be uncheered with a balloon. Times, Sunday Times
  • I like you very well, though you are slow and a muddler; but I want you to understand, once and for all, that I did not come to the Solomons to get married. Chapter 20
  • You just proved to me once and for all how incredibly clueless you really are!
  • I had to destroy, once and for all, the vicious circle of poverty and economic stagnation.
  • Didn't he ask himself if there was a single event that could be explained save on the assumption of a moral faculty in man, so that on the basis of it, "the tendency of mankind toward the good" could be _explained_, once and for all time? The Antichrist
  • And, amidst the towering peaks of the Worldspine, a dragon has freed itself from bondage and plots to free all of dragonkind from humanity's yoke once and for all. The King of the Crags by Stephen Deas
  • Have yourself frozen by cryonics, a near death experience that should settle once and for all any doubts about the afterlife.
  • Hopefully the second wireless should turn up next week so we can either prove or disprove our theory and get things sorted once and for all.
  • He probably foresaw, as indeed time has shown, that ancestral worship would prove to be an insuperable obstacle to many inquirers, if they were called upon to discard it once and for all; at the same time, he must have known that an invocation to spirits, coupled with the hope of obtaining some benefit therefrom, is _worship_ pure and simple, and cannot be explained away as an unmeaning ceremony. China and the Manchus
  • It is hoped that the symbolic gestures will end the feud once and for all. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is hoped that the symbolic gestures will end the feud once and for all. Times, Sunday Times
  • Welcome to our new regular feature, Fight Test, in which our regular writers square off against each other to decide once and for all whether the cultural artifacts of our day are boons or abominations.
  • He will explain it fully once and for all.
  • We have to resolve this matter once and for all.
  • That year was, indeed, the climacterical year of the world; and decided once and for all the fortunes of the Westward Ho!
  • I'm warning you once and for all.
  • The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all.
  • So Comstockery remains alive and well, and until the Congress is motivated to renounce Comstockery once and for all, I fear that women will pay a disproportionate share of the price, with the dark shadow of Anthony Comstock hanging over our health-related speech on critical topics such as abortion. Comstock Act Still On The Books
  • It was before we learnt once and for all that the financial edifice erected over the past two decades was rotten at the core. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jesus Christ was offered as a sacrifice for our sins, once and for all, to do away with sin for all those who will believe in Him.
  • If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty.
  • Kittigrew is in the thick of it as he determines to kill the pirate and end his reign of terror once and for all, but it's safe to say that he has no idea what he's getting himself into.
  • Holidaymakers are a fickle lot, and the next time they might just stay away once and for all.
  • News of the Prince's relationship with Mabel, a tall, leggy, attractive blonde, effectively squashed those rumours once and for all.
  • She's decided to write her memoirs to set the record straight once and for all.
  • This would have settled once and for all the imbalances in the pair's often testy relationship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Why not put an end, once and for all, to the scandal of our mutual recriminations? Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
  • “By illuminating so clearly the racial content of the secession persuasion, the commissioners would seem to have laid to rest, once and for all, any notion that slavery had nothing to do with the coming of the Civil War,” Dew wries. Disunion lobbyists important to secession movement
  • Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont all provided, in their early constitutions, that the legislature had no power to attaint any person of treason.29 The federal Constitution radically restricted this king of crimes: it defined its content, once and for all, and hedged in treason trials with procedural safeguards. A History of American Law
  • If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty.
  • With a string of sell-out dates for her Re-invention Tour, Madonna has shown the world once and for all that she is no longer a mere Material Girl.
  • For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. Aeschylus 
  • There is a steel determination between both panel of players to lift Carlow to new levels and silence the critics once and for all.
  • The ridiculously defiant title ambitiously pits her -- not a typo -- against the music, suggesting a final showdown in which Britney suits up to, once and for all, eliminate that colossal aural evil by turning it on itself. Archive 2003-10-01
  • That year was, indeed, the climacterical year of the world; and decided once and for all the fortunes of the European nations, and of the whole continent of America. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
  • Our intention is to destroy their offensive capability once and for all.
  • More importantly, Emperor Henry had also agreed to send an army to help throw the Normans, once and for all, out of Apulia.
  • To his credit, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons provided Ashley Judd a space, on globalgrind.com, to squash any so-called hip-hop beef, a term I wish we hip-hop heads would discard once and for all. Kevin Powell: Ashley Judd and Hip-Hop Culture
  • Our intention is to destroy their offensive capability once and for all.
  • This would have settled once and for all the imbalances in the pair's often testy relationship. Times, Sunday Times
  • The essential feature of this measure is that it abolished once and for all the vague doctrine of repugnancy to the principles of English law as a source of invalidity of any colonial Act…
  • In economic work, we must abandon once and for all the ideal of self-sufficiency, which is a characteristic of the natural economy. Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
  • Why not simply take the hint and turn his back on the village once and for all?
  • Further legislation may eventually be needed to take this tronc nonsense off the menu once and for all. Archive 2008-06-01
  • I wish all of these half-educated enemedia filth would go on Celebrity Jeopardy like Wolf Blitzer so we could dispose once and for all of the notion that they are any smarter than your average unemployed Alaskan housewife. The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
  • Borody's clinic, at the Center for Digestive Diseases in New South Wales, acknowledges that using a nasojejunal tube - which goes in through the nose, down the throat and into the stomach - is not the most attractive method, but argues it is the most reliable way of killing the C.difficile bug and its spores once and for all. FOXNews.com
  • But we don't shrink from a fight here at MTV News so we're endeavoring to settle the argument once and for all. Who Is The Greatest Badass Of All Time? MTV News’ Search Begins! » MTV Movies Blog
  • Real practice was going to expose their triviality once and for all.
  • Now this could be an opportune time to have a look at our own railway lines and get a few facts or fallacies cleared up once and for all.
  • Moreover, this would silence once and for all those gabblers who had undertaken to criticise him for what they called his inhumanity in banishing this only son when he was only trying to bring up that child in the way he should go. Kennedy Square
  • The tone of her voice was designed to stamp on this topic of conversation once and for all.
  • The prosecution must conduct a fair, thorough probe of the scandal under any circumstances with a firm resolution to root out the corrupt ties between politics and business once and for all.
  • 47 That afternoon he and Jo went on a final recce of the house to convince each other once and for all that it was ready. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
  • The threat had hung like a sword over his head for years and he wanted to confront it once and for all.
  • I want to hear what kind of folderol they think they've got, so I can clear it up once and for all. Devil's Waltz
  • Isn't ‘let's end this foolishness once and for all’ the sort of thing you're meant to say while hefting a rather large sword?
  • Racist attitude had to be rubbished once and for all.
  • I hope that some young investigaor out there in cyberspace will take this opportunity to destroy the Darwinian myth once and for all by exposing Darwin's most cherished example as nothing but intraspecific variation. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Dismantle, annihilate and devastate the whole swelling, putrescent edifice of surfing once and for all.
  • It was he who put the kybosh on welfare "as we know it," who carried the deregulation of almost everything to absurd extremes, who rode "free trade" and other nostrums of global capitalism for all they are worth, and who, with a few well timed "humanitarian interventions," dispatched "the Vietnam syndrome" once and for all. Andrew Levine: Two Reaganite Presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
  • Others have been nothing short of bloodbaths, where age-old rivalries and enmities were brought out to be settled once and for all!
  • His mind fixed only on the dark deed at hand and fulfilling his mission once and for all!
  • In the third century A.D., a gaggle of plenipotent rabbis held a symposium to settle the matter once and for all. The Fruit Hunters
  • Once and for all, these were shown to be systems comparable with our Galaxy and right outside it.
  • Fitzpiers did not stay more than an hour, but that time had apparently advanced his sentiments towards Grace, once and for all, from a vaguely liquescent to an organic shape. The Woodlanders
  • In 1912, Aubrey J. Kempner completed a 1909 effort by A. Wieferich to establish once and for all that every integer can be expressed as a sum of nine cubes.
  • And it will sweep away, once and for all, the web of distortion and deceit that poisons this debate.
  • The Government keeps thrashing around for that magic bullet, desperate to eliminate this crisis once and for all.
  • He will explain it fully once and for all.
  • This foreshadowed the sacrifice that Jesus made as the perfect Lamb of God to settle the requirement of blood for life once and for all.
  • Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.
  • If you insist, we shall rigidly enforce that provision, in the courts if necessary which would ruin your career once and for all.
  • ( "To put an end to amnesty once and for all ... it is time to 'regularize' the status of John Latest Articles
  • 47 That afternoon he and Jo went on a final recce of the house to convince each other once and for all that it was ready. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
  • Christianity, Islam, and all other god-based mythologies need to disappear once and for all, be banished from the face of the earth. Think Progress » Catholic League: Church Abuse Scandal Is A Crisis Of ‘Homosexuality,’ Not ‘Pedophilia’
  • There is a growing desire for those issues to be dealt with once and for all and to remove discrimination against people on the grounds of their creed.
  • I was hoping today to write about quantum gravity, after once and for all explaining the mysteries of quantum mechanics in the previous post.
  • This would have settled once and for all the imbalances in the pair's often testy relationship. Times, Sunday Times
  • That should be a good barometer of whether it's really time for us to strike camp once and for all.
  • What the AAUW is trying to tell us all, once and for all, is that education is not a zero-sum game. Archive 2008-05-01
  • She has been practising voraciously over the winter, and is determined to nail once and for all any accusation that she is a fair weather golfer.
  • It's a travesty, a mockery of our Constitutional system, and they will not rest until this hideous distortion of all that is good and decent has been ended once and for all.
  • If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty.
  • Hanish Mein, the current leader has set plans into motion: an assassin sent south to kill Leodan; an unknown people summoned from the north, the Numreks, who are giants with giant beasts to overthrow the Akarans once and for all. “Acacia” by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
  • We are confident that when this motion comes before the Council for debate, that it will be carried and these obstructive bollards will be removed once and for all.
  • Tuesday should settle once and for all one of the dirtiest political battles of all time. The Sun
  • If I understand Dispensational theology (and that may not even be possible, given the inherent contradictions and outright nonsense with which such premillennial claptrap is imbued), the coming of the "anti-Christ" should be a good thing, since it presages The Rapture, wherein the Righteous are bodily ascended into heaven, leaving the rest of us heathens and unbelievers to live in peace, once and for all. Discourse.net: New Low For McCain Campaign: Obama == The Anti-Christ
  • By the time I had recovered, at the end of the 1980s, I think my link with music had begun to crumble once and for all.
  • How the 'Obama puppy' can help end animal homelessness yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'How the \'Obama puppy\' can help end animal homelessness '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: It won\'t happen overnight, but if we vow always to do two simple things-adopt animals from shelters or rescue groups rather than buy them from breeders or pet shops and get our animals spayed or neutered-then together, yes, we can end animal homelessness once and for all. ' How the 'Obama puppy' can help end animal homelessness
  • I refuse to vote for the Chi-town slickster that can't get enough delegates to win and end the primary race once and for all. Clinton makes case at DNC
  • Our friendship has been strained lately, but I was also hoping that maybe tonight things could be smoothed over once and for all.
  • You've clearly beaten precarité ( "precariousness") once and for all! Tom Guarriello: Une Erreur Terrible
  • When frustrations have occurred, it's well worth getting to the source so that you can handle it once and for all.
  • If we act fast, we can once and for all prevent wild animals in Britain from suffering terrible cruelty.
  • Tensions are running high as William seeks to prove himself a champion and a true knight once and for all.
  • ‘This whole episode has been shrouded in a veil of secrecy since the start and there is an onus on us to bring a finality to it once and for all,’ he added.
  • This should cure your hangover once and for all, leaving you with a calming sensation of insobriety and joylessness.
  • A few years ago, Waitrose magazine conducted a Serious Survey of chefs and food critics, aimed at establishing once and for all, Britain's favourite canape – you may well mock, but these are important issues – and the results, according to contemporary "news" reports, came as a bit of a shock. How to cook perfect cheese straws
  • Our intention is to destroy their offensive capability once and for all.
  • I had to exorcise, once and for all, that gnawing unease.
  • This, then, was the secret of the unwillingness of the authorities to encourage the search for gold, and it is after all due to the fact that the search was ultimately successful beyond all precedent, that Australia has been for so many years relieved of the curse of convictism, and has ceased once and for all to be a depot for the scoundrelism of Britain -- "Hurrah for the bright red gold! Getting Gold: a practical treatise for prospectors, miners and students
  • Tuesday should settle once and for all one of the dirtiest political battles of all time. The Sun
  • A bout of jaundice took the edge off my stamina once and for all and I realised then that human bodies are not like vintage motor cars.
  • I'm trying to hold back a whole raft of feelings, but they keep bobbing and pitching to the surface, threatening to break loose and shoot the rapids once and for all.
  • The change spread especially quickly in the affluent 1920s and in the era of resurgent prosperity during and after the Second World War, when the lingering specter of the Great Depression was banished once and for all.
  • The expedition was a great success and once and for all proved that there was no inland sea but plenty of land suitable for pastoral development.
  • The teacher has warned the student once and for all.
  • This was payback time. I've proved once and for all I can become champion.
  • They should have a computerised land registry, so that for once and for all, the disputes are a thing of the past.
  • Once and for all, will you switch off that television!
  • It is our intention that the plans that are already backed up by $120-million, the plans that are being worked out now will have the effect of once and for all stopping broadscale clearing, that's our goal.
  • Borody's clinic, at the Center for Digestive Diseases in New South Wales, acknowledges that using a nasojejunal tube - which goes in through the nose, down the throat and into the stomach - is not the most attractive method, but argues it is the most reliable way of killing the C.difficile bug and its spores once and for all. FOXNews.com
  • However we use the revenues, we should resolve the indefensible perversities of national energy policy once and for all, starting with the elimination of federal subsidies for Big Oil. William S. Becker: Big Oil's Political Ploy
  • Perhaps," he began with some hope, "when I say farewell to rakery once and for all, I may make something fine yet. Nancy Stair A Novel
  • After all, surely this organisation could put the matter to rest once and for all.
  • Let's settle this matter once and for all.
  • He can lie all he wants to and try to "backpedal" all he wants, but it is too late, he cannot undo what he has done; he has once and for all, pulled down his pants in front of the entire country, squatted on the hallowed 9/11/01 Ground Zero site and taken a huge PUBLIC DUMP UPON Latest Articles
  • Let's keep our roads safe and tighten motoring law to rid our roads of these death traps once and for all.
  • Let's hope that this discreditable affair ends the anomalous featherbedded status of the arrogant, biased, venal, and wasteful BBC for once and for all. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • What the connection is we can only hazard a guess at but it confirms all our worst suspicions about anything-core outfits once and for all.

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