Sentence examples for last ditch with from inspiring English sources

Milton Friedman would call them the "least bad tax," while Karl Marx called George's ideas "capitalist's last ditch" with a hint of friendly contempt.

1.27am BST 20 mins The US are streeeeeeetched as Gonzalez has to make a last ditch tackle with Fabian Johnson caught in possession.

Doctors' union the British Medical Association BMAA) entered into last ditch talks with the NHS on 9 February to avert a strike, but long-running negotiations over the new contract appear to have it an impasse.

The game then ended in chaos after a thrilling last ditch Leeds attack, with Ganson booed off the field by the furious home fans in a crowd of 17,264.

They cannot complain that the Lisbon treaty creates a putative European superstate so threatening that it must be resisted in the last ditch and then, with their next breath, denounce the EU for its pusillanimity in appointing relative lightweights to its top jobs.

Full of continental testosterone I rushed to a sex shop in a last ditch attempt to connect with whatever remained of my inner diepe keel.

I want to make a last ditch attempt to work with him because he's almost 25 – and once he has his birthday – he won't be eligible anymore".

Conservationists and scientists have held talks in Kenya this week to come up with a last ditch plan to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction.

Sackey finally brings him down before it is worked wide and Armitage is forced to save England with a last ditch tackle.

Only the glamorous head of BBC Films Christine Langan saved him, with a last ditch appeal to Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux who was standing at the top of the red carpet steps.

As all but the most gullible no longer have faith in the European politicians to resolve the increasingly deadly sovereign debt crisis among the PIIGS nations in the Eurozone, the last ditch hope is now resting with the European Central Bank.