Sentence examples for a final gambit from inspiring English sources

ATHENS — Greece offered to make painful spending cuts and hike taxes Thursday in a final gambit to win one more bailout from Europe before the country descends into bankruptcy.

The fact that the recent US/EU sanctions have avoided targeting Assad can be seen as a final gambit and opportunity for the Syrian president to prove his relevance, but I am not optimistic.

In an Oct. 27 story in the Journal headlined "As a Final Gambit, Parties are Trying to Damp Turnout," the piece attempts to make the case that both parties were trying to convince voters to stay home on Election Day.

He changes midway from shooting on digital to film, insults the finance provider who arrives to supervise the bloated budget and as his final gambit hires an actor so violent as to be virtually unemployable.

As his final gambit, Mr. Chen insisted on a national referendum on whether the island should seek to join the United Nations under the name of Taiwan, instead of its legal name, the Republic of China.

That loneliness underpinned his final gambit, the I'm the True Victim Here.

His final gambit was to try to topple Mr Harper's minority government just weeks after the election by forming a disparate and stillborn coalition with the separatist Bloc Québécois and the leftist New Democratic Party (NDP).

With 10 minutes left Hamid had to make the save of the game, blocking Saborio's goal bound shot at point blank range after the ball had been nudged to the striker on the edge of the six yard box, then Kreis made his final gambit, bringing off Salcedo for Devon Sandoval, the team's leading scorer in the competition.

She does offer to let him speak to the manager, but he tries one final gambit.

The officials said they did not know whether the Cuban request had been just an opening gambit or a final position.

You never know". Some unions have charged that Bloomberg's budget, proposed last Friday, serves more as an opening negotiating gambit than a final word on how many jobs and programs the city will cut.