Sentence examples for last ditch move from inspiring English sources

Company insiders said that by last summer, Carey and James Murdoch proposed selling the newspapers as a last ditch move to get the Sky bid through.

In what some industry observers characterized as a last ditch move, SGI officially changed its name this April from Silicon Graphics Inc. to SGI.

It's a bold, last ditch move for the network, which Viacom recently announced will become the Paramount Network by the end of the year, but the move is pointed and important.

How will Hillary Clinton feel when she snaps out of this period of magical thinking and realizes that her last ditch moves were seen by many Americans as a tragic assault on a reinvigorated democratic process, which is involving a record number of voters across the nation, and as giving ammunition to the GOP machine for their attempts to tear apart the Democratic candidate?

The demotion for Davis last month was a last-ditch move for an established and likable player who was batting.161 after 55 frustrating games.

IT WAS a last-ditch move by a desperate politician.

Last-ditch move "Milosevic has a habit of agreeing to principles and he then tries to work back on the details," Mr Shea said.

"Sesame Street" was failing miserably with test groups when someone, as a last-ditch move, thought of blending real people with puppets.

You know, tinker with the format a little, which is usually a last-ditch move to try and keep it interesting.

Ministers have been forced into the last-ditch move only a fortnight before the Games because they are concerned that G4S cannot guarantee it will be able to supply the 13,700 guards it was contracted to deliver.

Meanwhile, Labour has made a last-ditch move to encourage Liberal Democrats gathering for their spring conference in Gateshead to overturn the party's stance on the bill and endorse calls for the plans to be dropped.