Sentence examples for last-ditch application from inspiring English sources

Chan and Sukumaran's Indonesian lawyers plan a last-ditch application for judicial review this week.

The Virgin tycoon prevented FirstGroup from taking over the London-Glasgow route with a last-ditch application for a judicial review, forcing the Department for Transport (DfT) to postpone a contract signing due on Wednesday morning.

Later the Judicial Office announced Mrs Flynn was renewing her last-ditch application at an oral hearing in open court on Monday before Lord Justice Pill.

If it comes to pass, we can surely expect plenty of last-ditch passport applications and searches for British grandparents.

Isa Muaza, who has refused food for 100 days and is said to be near death, was flown out of the country on Friday morning after last-ditch legal applications failed but was returned to Britain on Saturday after the Nigerian authorities apparently refused the plane permission to land.

If May orders his extradition, albeit with a string of fresh undertakings about his treatment by the Americans, McKinnon's legal team is expected to launch a last-ditch challenge with an application for judicial review.

[C4.] An Effort to Save a Cancer Drug ImClone and Bristol-Myers Squibb have begun a last-ditch effort to salvage their application for approval of the cancer drug Erbitux, which the Food and Drug Administration declined to even review in December.

The Palestinians see the membership application as a last-ditch attempt to preserve the two-state solution in the face of ever-encroaching Israeli settlements, as well as a desperate move to shake up the negotiations that they feel have achieved little after 20 years of American oversight.

TO STOP U.N. APPLICATION President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine said that last-ditch American and international efforts to prevent the Palestinians from applying for membership in the United Nations this month were "too late".

Charles Denson, a Coney Island historian, faxed an application to the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday, in a last-ditch effort to have the roller coaster declared a landmark.

But it wouldn't be until a decade later, in a last-ditch effort to bring this discovery to the public, that these peptides would find commercial application through 3-D Matrix, a startup co-founded by Zhang and other MIT scientists.