Sentence examples for in its last throes from inspiring English sources

For instance, he has said it was wrong for him to have declared that the insurgency was in its last throes when it clearly wasn't.

Mr. Cheney on Thursday reiterated his view that the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes".

Like a marriage in its last throes, the euro appears to be falling apart before our eyes.

This is a far cry from the "regime in its last throes" image we get in the mainstream press.

On a crowded stage, with scripts in hand, cast members played out a story set in an English town whose shipbuilding industry was in its last throes.

Even boredom seems to be in its last throes: designers in Japan have found a way to make our train trips perpetually fun-filled.

To visit Kempton Park on a Monday afternoon, or Folkestone on a Tuesday, is to watch the British betting ring in what may be its last throes.

No sooner was the word allowed than Vice-President Dick Cheney announced that the insurgency had entered its "last throes".

Wonderland, though, gives us sentences as declamatory and bathetic as "our Empire of Shopping is in its last twitching throes.

The Open Championship is in its final throes and it's getting pretty tense at St Andrews.

It is the same spiel they used when the NoTW was in its final throes.