Sentence examples for eleventh-hour attempt from inspiring English sources

An eleventh-hour attempt by ministers to mitigate the effect of the government's council tax reforms on the poorest households carries "considerable dangers", a leading thinktank has warned.

The U.S. envoys who arrived in Israel on Wednesday were dispatched in what State Department officials characterized as an eleventh-hour attempt to cut a deal that might avert a showdown at the United Nations.

Another wave of panic crested on the eve of the 1936 election — an eleventh-hour attempt to seize on public anxiety about the Social Security payroll tax, slated to take effect on January 1 , 1937

Labour have failed in an eleventh-hour attempt to get compensation for people who bought ID cards as MPs approved legislation to scrap them.

have told reporters they won't support an eleventh-hour attempt to tack on caps on carbon-dioxide emissions, the heat-trapping chemical linked to global warming even though the move would win over some Democrats and move the bill to the full Senate floor.

The committee's vote is an eleventh-hour attempt by Democrats to force a debate on war authorization before lawmakers adjourn for the year.

Exasperated by eleventh-hour attempts to save themselves, Baroness Jay, New Labour's Madame Guillotine, accuses them of 'clinging to the furniture'.

Dr Mark Porter, chair of the BMA, said a letter sent by Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of NHS England, to all hospitals last week, in which he said hospitals which became very busy could consider re-calling striking doctors, had been interpreted as an eleventh hour attempt to "thwart" industrial action.

In an eleventh hour attempt to save its business following the Supreme Court's ruling that it was illegal, Aereo changed its tune and claimed to be a cable provider in a court filing last month.

MPs insisted on a meaningful vote and dismissed Ministers' eleventh hour attempts to buy off the rebels.

With one possible eleventh-hour exception, attempts to find alternative angles of attack have not shown conspicuous success.