But while the Giants fought gallantly, Sydney were irresistible in front of a 31,966-strong crowd and Franklin's 50-metre set shot from the boundary in the dying minutes steered his side home.
Mr Clinton, on his first visit to Mexico as president, responded gallantly.
At the battle of Gettysburg, he gallantly held Little Round Top for the Union forces.
The AU has gallantly tried to enforce a previous ceasefire agreement that was agreed upon in 2004, but its efforts have been blighted by a lack of equipment, money and manpower.
In any case, he was no longer prepared to take sole responsibility for deciding such matters; instead there should be a "collegial model of leadership" with Anglican leaders from around the world deciding which meetings were worthwhile.Despite all this, the archbishop gallantly insisted, reports of the global club's death were exaggerated.
But a long season of festivities begins next week with a fleet review off Spithead involving 35 navies including, gallantly, those of France and Spain.
Mrs Clinton is hosting a fund-raiser for her in San Francisco, and Mr Clinton gallantly promises to come to California to support her in October.Even without the Clinton scandal, though, Ms Boxer would be in trouble.
Yet that is what the Communists object to.The Communists say they have permitted talks with the IAEA merely to allow the government to fail more gallantly in its efforts to push the deal through; but fail it will.
Television crews were soon roaming the West End, where the two London car bombs had been discovered, interviewing after-work boozers (who gallantly affirmed that they would continue boozing), as if they were plucky secretaries struggling to work amid the rubble of 1940.
Colonel Qaddafi gallantly offered to house the continent's parliament, but since he does not allow one for Libya, this was turned down.
A few fought gallantly for him, squirting machinegun fire vainly at the American armoured vehicles moving slowly across the bridges of the Tigris.
