Sentence examples for make a final stand from inspiring English sources

Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, the Ethiopian leader, appealed to the armed forces over the weekend to make a final stand.

They had resolved to make a final stand in the parliament, when Erdoğan appeared on a live broadcast at 12.37am on a reporter's iPhone, exhorting the people to defend democracy.

There has been considerable speculation about how hard Islamic State fighters would resist: Would the militants make a final stand in the villages or pull back to Mosul to fight another day?

PURSUING A FLEEING FOE -- One of the main objectives of American military strategists was to prevent retreating Republican Guard units from reaching Baghdad, where they could regroup and make a final stand.

She wanted to make a final stand with the man who had given her so much heartache, the man who had told her, six months after her confession, what a whore she had been to sleep with the Commerce Department mail-room man.

Rejecting the advice of various advisers, including the elder of his two surviving sons his second son had been killed in the war Mussolini refused to consider flying out of the country, and he made for the Valtellina, intending perhaps to make a final stand in the mountains; but only a handful of men could be found to follow him.

Reports from Libya indicated that Colonel Muammar Qaddafi had been killed, as forces from the new ruling authorities took full control of Sirte, the colonel's home town where fighters loyal to the old regime were making a final stand.

In 1998, after the mysterious death and ignominious truck-tyre cremation of Pol Pot, the last Khmer Rouge cadres, under 'Brother number five', the one-legged general Ta Mok, made a final stand at an ancient temple complex called Prasat Preah Vihar.

The 24th made a final stand in the Battle of Taejon, where it was almost completely destroyed but delaying North Korean forces until July 20.

They made a final stand in the Battle of Taejon, where they were almost completely destroyed, but their resistance kept the North Koreans from advancing until July 20.

During this time heavy fighting occurred around Chochiwon, Chonan, and Pyongtaek before the 24th Infantry Division made a final stand at Taejon.