This month, Ms. Palin issued a last-minute statement of opposition to a ballot measure that would have provided added protections for salmon from potential contamination from mining, an action seen as crucial to its defeat.
In a last-minute statement before the deadline, Morsi again rejected the military's intervention, saying abiding by his electoral legitimacy was the only way to prevent violence.
But the very enormity of the attack, which killed 20 young Israelis, may have provided the shock that Israel and the Palestinians needed to draw back from the brink of all-out war.Mr Sharon's restraint was purchased, literally at the last minute, by a public statement from Yasser Arafat, on the morning of June 2nd.
China may be getting the hint: Mr. Hu approved, at the last minute, language in a joint statement criticizing North Korea for secretly building a uranium enrichment facility.
The documentary had been re-edited at the last minute to insert a firmer statement of regret and intention to investigate than the Corporation had initially given.
"It is a shame that Csatáry, a convicted … and totally unrepentant Holocaust perpetrator who was finally indicted in his homeland for his crimes, ultimately eluded justice and punishment at the very last minute," Zuroff said in a statement.
A statement attached to the document on the Virgin website outlines how the document was sent to a select few media companies including Virgin and the BBC, and how Branson decided to overlook the embargo in light of fears external pressure could lead to a last minute retraction of the UN's statement.
Mr. McGreevey, in his last-minute opposition statement Thursday had already blamed Republicans in the Legislature for burying the bill under a mountain of pork-barrel projects.
When a leading figure in the Burger Boys was charged with the murder of Corey Wayne Allen, another leading Burger Boy who had fallen out with the gang, key witnesses retracted statements at the last minute for fear of reprisals.
Sadly, even Jewish center-left organizations such as J Street and Americans for Peace Now published statements at the last minute that represented the resolutions were part of the larger boycott, divestment, and sanction movement directed towards Israel as a whole and labeled it "a distraction" reminiscent of "global anti-Semitism".
