Sentence examples for a last measure. from inspiring English sources

In the past, layoffs were a last measure for companies that were truly struggling.

And as a last measure, there are labels on the beds for the consumer, offering guidelines and warnings".

"The military will only intervene as a last measure – to prevent the collapse of the state itself," said Shimy.

"As a last measure, depending on your contract, you may have a late payment charge clause, which can be used as a reminder to the payer that you are keen to avoid going down this route.

"We did go to this IV as kind of a last measure, because we know that people do get sleepy and may not be as responsive, and we know how hard that is for the family to see," she said.

On Monday, he took a last measure of satisfaction by defying a request of the K.G.B. agent who had escorted him on the plane from Moscow to East Berlin.

(G G G G A A A A). Play the last measure the same way you have played the first two.

At Portsmouth, solemn music was played as chief petty officers, around a black‐draped barrel in a coffin, sipped their last measure.

Nevertheless, when Secretary of State William H. Seward suggested that the president wait for a Union victory before issuing the proclamation, lest it seem "the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help," Lincoln agreed.

Is she a sadly deluded victim or a fighter snatching at one last measure of happiness?

But his secretary of state, William Seward, cautioned that to issue it at this time of "our repeated reverses" would simply fuel the charge that it was "the last measure of an exhausted government, a cry for help".