Sentence examples for last minute efforts from inspiring English sources

It is further argued that this race consists of last minute efforts and tailor-made packages designed by governments and their agencies to temporarily improve their country's otherwise inferior profile.

Last minute efforts to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) and appeal directly to undecided voters are all-important right now.

Despite last minute efforts by the animal right's group PETA to halt the move based on concerns for Flocke and Rasputin's well-being, the two bears arrived safely in France on 22 April 2010.

He's attempting a last minute effort to keep the city's only professional sports franchise.

It was a last minute effort and it worked.

Standing next to each other, side by side, Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov made a last minute effort to sway the FIDE elections their way.

Americans have responded in typical fashion by voting as many Republicans into office as possible, hoping that a last minute effort to appear more church-going will appeal to the now cold-blooded Christ(s).

Just before the final version of the research plan was released last summer, for example, senior Commerce Department officials shaping the document threatened to resign over last-minute efforts by senior administration officials to adjust wording, several scientists and officials involved in the dispute said.

Last-minute efforts to merge the two amendments were rejected.

Underdog London defeated Paris, and Blair's last-minute efforts were said to have won the day.

Last-minute efforts were made to tone down the resolution, which had already been revised over several weeks.