Sentence examples for eleventh-hour effort from inspiring English sources

According to several mathematicians who were active in the I.M.U. at the time, Yau made an eleventh-hour effort to have the congress take place in Hong Kong instead.

But despite the consensus among D.C. stakeholders about the economic value that our stores would bring, some members of the D.C. Council are advancing an eleventh-hour effort to try to undermine our efforts and change the way businesses like Wal-Mart must operate in the city.

People examining the matter say that the effort to defer the audit was part of an effort by Mr. Sullivan to explain away bookkeeping practices that he also tried to justify in a June 24 memo he submitted to the board in an eleventh-hour effort to save his job.

On Thursday a Moscow court upheld the conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, thus dooming the ex-Yukos chief executive's eleventh-hour effort to run for parliament, a move that would have piqued Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The diary focused on eleventh-hour efforts to prevent hostilities, and left its readers with the idea that Northern Democrats, moderate Republicans and Southern Unionists had acted more responsibly in early 1861 than extreme men on either side.

The C.P.P. is crucial to helping the U.S. meet its commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, part of the world's eleventh-hour efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Lawyers for a death row inmate in Texas who was sentenced to death on the basis of testimony from a psychologist who argued he was a risk to the public because he is black are making frantic eleventh-hour efforts to spare him from the execution chamber on Thursday.

Using a voter information app, Walters was focusing her eleventh-hour efforts on getting likely supporters to the polls.

Education advocates Friday hailed the eleventh-hour defeat of controversial efforts to rewrite state rules on teacher evaluations that they said would have weakened initiatives in Los Angeles and elsewhere to improve the quality of public school instructors.

(Predictably, McCain's eleventh-hour bucking of his party has received far more media attention ― and praise ― than Murkowski and Collins' more robust opposition to the repeal efforts).

By the time I checked in with C-SPAN on Wednesday morning, Republican Senator Ted Cruz, of Texas, was into the twenty-first hour of his effort to prevent the Senate from funding Obamacare and keeping the government operational.