Sentence examples similar to a last ditch step from inspiring English sources

And it threatened to undercut a last-ditch step that the News Corporation took on Monday, when it withdrew promises it had made to satisfy antitrust concerns about the deal, most notably that Sky News, the target company's 24-hour news channel, would be spun off.

BRISTOL, UNITED KINGDOM--A last ditch plan to save the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) has failed.

In a last ditch attempt to appease the protesters, Saleh announced yesterday that he would step down in 2013 and that his son Ahmed would not succeed him.

Only the glamorous head of BBC Films Christine Langan saved him, with a last ditch appeal to Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux who was standing at the top of the red carpet steps.

As a "last ditch effort," he tried to live as a male but without medical intervention.

It was a last ditch effort.

Typically, couples come into therapy as a "last ditch" effort.

It felt like a last ditch effort to be honest.

"A last ditch effort to try when everything else has failed - a hail Mary".

In a truly engaged society, protesting individual votes is only a last ditch effort.

On June 17 , 2008 in a last ditch effort to save Randy Forbes's H. Res.