One of those routes involved driving a large truck just under the size of an 18-wheeler over a 2ft-deep ditch measuring 12ft across – and there were two of them in a row.
The battery was surrounded by a ditch measuring 100 feet wide on the flanks.
Erasing my hard drive, long considered a last-ditch measure, was becoming more and more appealing with each passing virus scan.
Forcing losses on bank depositors is a last-ditch measure taken by bankrupt governments when all other measures have been exhausted.
Mr. Browne said the use of British ground troops in the fighting was ordered "in extremis," suggesting that the deployment of forces from the British base at Basra was a last-ditch measure to save Iraqi troops.
[C2.] Veto Promised on Bankruptcy Bill Congressional efforts to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy system appeared all but doomed when the White House said that President Clinton would veto a last-ditch measure that sailed through the House.
Many believe that Assad was on the point of defeat after fighting the rebels there for 18 months, and that he used chemical weapons as a last-ditch measure.
Congressional efforts to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy system appeared all but doomed today when the White House said that President Clinton would veto a last-ditch measure that sailed through the House.
The report also said that as a last-ditch measure, Congress could impose a tariff on all Chinese products, "designed to raise 150 percent of all U.S. losses from Chinese" thefts.
At one point, he ignores an order that he is told comes directly from Prime Minister Naoto Kan to stop injecting seawater into one of the reactors, a last-ditch measure taken by plant workers to try to cool it.
The Iranian position is nuanced, but suggests that there may, at the very least, be a slim opening for some behind-the-scenes diplomacy, and who knows — perhaps even a stand-down position for Assad as a last-ditch measure to forestall a military attack by the United States and France.
