Sentence examples for last-gasp attempt from inspiring English sources

The move marks a last-gasp attempt to keep the Libyan uprising alive.

He was also dispatched on Wednesday to meet with associates of James, a last-gasp attempt that was futile.

Seif, a leading human rights lawyer,had been arrested two days earlier in a last-gasp attempt to restore order.

Juncker makes a remarkable intervention; a seemingly desperate, last-gasp attempt to prevent Greece leaving the eurozone.

On Wednesday night, a last-gasp attempt in the House of Lords to annul the part pushing competitive tendering sadly failed.

A last-gasp attempt to end the N.B.A. lockout faltered Tuesday, all but ensuring that games will be lost to a labor crisis for the second time in league history.

But these last-gasp attempts at destabilization produced a backlash.

After shrugging off a few last-gasp attempts at bringing him down, Sunseri dove across the goal line for an incredible touchdown.

But while Douglas Carswell remains the odds-on favourite to win the Clacton-on-Sea poll triggered by his defection as a Tory MP to Ukip, the prime minister's last gasp attempt to woo voters away from Nigel Farage's party seems to have swayed some of them.

It purports to be an extensively-researched expose on an intellectual movement rooted in the economist James McGill Buchanan's (to quote the promotional blurb) "last gasp attempt to preserve the white elite's power in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education". It fails to engage Buchanan's ideas or even represent them accurately.

So it made perfect sense that George H.W. would be the establishment's last gasp attempt at stopping Reagan in 1980.