Sentence examples similar to to last ditch from inspiring English sources

I want to put a stop to last-ditch judicial reviews, unfounded asylum claims and disruption of removals.

Pakistan sensed the end but they still had to get past Anderson, a man used to last-ditch survival.

A high rate of fire was especially crucial to last-ditch, close-quarters defense, and, with handguns as well as shoulder arms, this meant automatic loading.

Both sides said Wednesday that the failure of the Democratic bill would lead to last-ditch negotiations that could still yield a deal.

The arm-twisting that has been under way for weeks has given way to last-ditch persuasion, with the voting by secret ballot to begin on Friday.

That was a big moral victory for President F.W. de Klerk and a blow to last-ditch defenders of the system.

After weeks of division between Germany and France, the new blueprint began to emerge on Thursday when the two countries brokered a deal under which all 16 nations that use the single currency agreed to last-ditch refinancing for Greece if it was unable to raise borrowing on the financial markets.

Oncologists like to joke about cardiology envy: While heart specialists now routinely prescribe drugs that stop disease before it starts, cancer specialists must resort to last-ditch heroics.

"Hindsight is always twenty twenty," might be the retort to Hawkes' last ditch attempt to make sense of life.

The Conservatives fought Elections Canada to the last ditch, repeatedly challenging it in the courts.

Collins would defend his regiment's role to the last ditch.