Environmental groups dismissed a string of last-minute concessions won by cabinet ministers who had doubts about the £9bn project.
He has captivated the nation with a string of last-minute heroics, leaving the public wanting more.
But fans will remember the place fondly, especially for the 1969 Miracle Mets, who rebounded from a string of last-place finishes to win an improbable championship.
Lord Coe, the man umbilically linked with a London Olympics that will begin in just five days' time, insists he is not losing any sleep despite a string of last-minute problems.
For Mr. Obama, the ceremony — held at the Interior Department because the White House is tied up with holiday tours — marked yet another in a string of last-minute, bipartisan legislative triumphs, a surprising turnaround in the wake of the self-described "shellacking" his party took at the polls last month.
Just before Christmas, President Barack Obama celebrated a string of last-minute legislative accomplishments on tax cuts, gays in the military, the nuclear arms pact, the 9/11 responder bill, and food safety.
Now we've moved on to Indiana and North Carolina, the latest "last stands" in a string of last stands that goes all the way back to New Hampshire.
The phrase keeps cropping up, even though the Jets are 8-2 thiseasonon and have had a string of thrilling, last-minute victories.
But where a contemporary show such as 24 has chosen to deal with the war on terror by setting up a string of impossibly last-minute disaster scenarios that can only be foiled if Jack Bauer flicks through his on-the-hoof torture manual, Battlestar has taken a much more elegant and complicated tack.
A string of trips last June cost taxpayers more than $90,000 in total, according to agency receipts the Environmental Integrity Project obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.
