Sentence examples for last ditch on from inspiring English sources

Although she doesn't know how to trump up an issue, she will fight to the last ditch on a real one.

"Democrats will fight to the last ditch on that," Baker said.

To say this was my last ditch effort on finding a doctor who would work with me on what I wanted to do with my life and manage my disease is an understatement.

The better bet is that martial law is something like a last ditch effort on the part of Mr Suthep's sponsors.

Then Horgan, with Lewis Moody again in attendance at the last ditch, latched on to an overhead pass and stretched over to score in the right corner with less than two minutes left.

Buttler changed the course of the match just as Mike Hussey disposed of Pakistan's hopes with his last ditch assault on Saeed Ajmal in the semi-final last time around: Ajmal is regarded as the leading one-day bowler in the business.

The presence of 30,000 or so American GIs in the South moving up to China's borders obviously alarms the PLA, while Seoul wonders what it would do with the DPRK's 1.2m-man army and the possibility of "last ditch" attacks on its territory.

It feels like a last ditch attempt on the part of the former to tap into the latter's allure by osmosis, much as hard-pressed students have been known to sleep with unread books by their beds the night before an exam, in the hope that the wisdom contained therein might somehow seep into their brain.

Rory McIlroy made a valiant, last ditch effort on Sunday, shooting four-under par 66 at the U.S. Open, but unless the course at Chambers Bay gets the better of the remaining leaders he'll finish outside of the top-5.

Washington is now taking part in a last ditch round of talks on Iran's nuclear program.

It is seen by many in Pakistan as Zardari's last ditch effort to hang on to his office, after an 18-month presidency with many political mishaps.