When those pumps failed, they switched to seawater in a last-ditch attempt to keep temperatures down.
The couple had decided to make a last-ditch attempt to save their stormy marriage during a family Christmas at their home.
In a last-ditch attempt to stop the bill from becoming law, conservative opponents filed a legal challenge after lawmakers approved it.
The MPA which represents a number of movie studios including Warner, Disney and Fox, launched the legal action as a last-ditch attempt to close down Newzbin 2.
In a last-ditch attempt to avert a stoppage, the writers and their employers were prodded by a federal mediator to meet for another round of negotiations on Sunday.
American and Canadian trade officials, however, are significantly less impressed with the working group's assessment, and see it as a last-ditch attempt to vindicate an unfair trade barrier.
Britain plans to mount a last-ditch attempt to revise the EU bonus cap at a meeting of finance ministers on Tuesday with chancellor George Osborne trying to gather opposition to the proposal.
Instead, in late 2008, in the terminal stages of the collapsing 2007 nuclear freeze deal, the U.S. made a last-ditch attempt to woo North Korea by taking it off the U.S. list of terror sponsoring states.
With their backs to the wall, the seriously fractured Democratic Party (PD), and Silvio Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party (PDL) decided to bury their ideological differences and will now try to co-operate in a last-ditch attempt to remedy a social and economic crisis that threatened to get out of hand after an indecisive February election.
This week brought a far worse humiliation: both parties have had to abandon their chosen candidates in a last-ditch attempt to bar the way on December 6th to a real outsider, Hugo Chavez, a former army colonel, best known until this year as the leader of a military coup that did not quite succeed in 1992.
On the one hand, the fourth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad came as the US wages a seemingly last-ditch attempt to defeat the insurgency in Iraq.
Mr Griffiths said a last-ditch attempt was being made to try to prevent him from being deported later, with a request for a judicial review.
Facing a likely go-ahead decision from the U.S. Government, the study is a last ditch attempt to drum up opposition to a no-brainer, market-approved project.
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As it is, he is enjoying a last-ditch attempt by his Eurosceptic allies to get it blocked by their country's constitutional court.
Some see it as a last-ditch attempt by Turkey's old guard to cling to power.
Because of various injuries he sustained over the course of the year, he had no choice but to enter the California International Marathon on Dec. 4 in a last-ditch attempt at a qualifying time.
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