Injecting air into the abdomen is a painful, archaic, last-ditch way to battle tuberculosis when medications are scarce or can no longer help.
The new ad is a last-ditch way to take advantage of a few of the Clinton barbs that, had Obama chosen her, we'd be seeing in a constant loop until November.
Yet for better or worse, it has served as a last- or first-ditch way for issues that politicians aren't yet ready to touch — whether the tax rebellion of the 1970s (Prop 13) or medical marijuana in the 1990s (Prop 215) — to win a hearing and a vote and then go on to change the political conversation across the country.
The White House announced that President Bush would meet on Sunday with the leaders of Britain and Spain, his staunchest allies in demanding that Saddam Hussein disarm, to determine if there is any last-ditch way to bring the United Nations together on an ultimatum to Iraq.
To put the matter in perspective, an outdated newspaper feature that treated women as sex objects has been ditched way after its sell-by date.
Meanwhile, President Obama, in his press conference Wednesday, extended a metaphor about cars and ditches way too far — it had to do with the economy, and towing — and said, by way of describing how hard it was to convey his empathy for ordinary Americans, "Nobody's filming me reading those letters".
The immune system's overreaction, says Reichert, is "kind of a last-ditch way of handling something...
A new study suggests the idea, seen as a last-ditch way to deal with runaway climate change, could cut rainfall in the tropics by 30%.
Sometimes, though, they are forced to follow him straight into a ditch, the way they did against Buffalo on Monday, when his six turnovers — five interceptions and a fumble — nearly cost the Cowboys the game.
Goldman had been prodding the exchange to ditch the way it matched buyers and sellers of stocks through human floor traders for years and move to an automated, computerized marketplace.
It's certainly not about ditching the way that theatre has been toured and delivered over hundreds of years, but rather about seeing the artistic possibilities of digital platforms and extending reach, capacity and audiences.
