Still, some in Chicago were caught off guard by the last gasp from Old Man Winter.
Italy needed a last gasp strike from Marco Verratti to secure a 1-1 draw in Holland.
There were busts, above all the Great Depression, but these represented the last gasp of the old order.
Are they right to think the latest Balkan war is, in effect, the last gasp of pan-Slav nationalism?
The Orange had one last gasp, using an 8-0 run to 65-59 on a pair of baskets by Tyson-Thomas.
The government spokesman called the attacks an "easy way to make an impression" by groups who were "breathing their last gasp".
Two men holding their respective team's fortunes in their grasp, united in the last gasp of the last game of the season.
It represented both a preview of what was to come and the last gasp of traditional mainstream movie-making in one glorious concoction.
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However, it is more like the last gasp of a dying behemoth and it is the poor that will suffer the most.
This is done by having produced that last gasp rally when the reluctant bulls can no longer stand being out of the market.
Any time weather is damp and warm from spring thaw to the last gasp of summer mold spores can be circulating in the trillions.
"It comes out at sort of this strange time in the company's product evolution, the last gasp of the DOS line and Windows 98, " Davis said.
This is supposed to be a zombie season for the Nets one last gasp in the Garden State before a soft artisanal opening at the Barc on Flatbush.
Syracuse had one last gasp, using an 8-0 run to 65-59 with six minutes left on a pair of baskets by Carmen Tyson-Thomas, who finished with 18 points.
This agreement, perhaps the last gasp of Kenneth Starr's Whitewater investigation, enabled Mrs Clinton to avoid a trial that might have damaged her hopes of running for a Senate seat in New York.
This action amounted to a raw abuse of power, a last gasp by an Obama administration able and determined to appease gay activists - a key political constituency - before the setbacks of November's elections made doing so vastly more difficult.
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What brought Europe to war was not the great alliance blocks, nor the Europe-wide arms race (one aspect of the story that is curiously neglected here), but the last gasp of the old Eastern Question, which had plagued European diplomacy for a century.
But his performance can also be read as the last gasp of the old regime, which can be well and truly buried if its opponents, from the Brotherhood to the Nasserists and liberals, can form a coalition capable of providing effective and legitimate government.
Chicago did have one last gasp to send it to overtime, but Belinelli missed a 3 with 7.8 seconds left, and after the rebound went out of bounds off the Pacers, West came up with a steal and made two free throws to seal the win.
The first is what seems to have inspired Len McCluskey, the General Secretary of the country's biggest union, Unite, to describe Labour's economic policy as "a victory for discredited Blairism... the last gasp of neo liberalism" which was dragging the party into "the swamp of bond market orthodoxy".
Senator John McCain, the Republicans' 2008 candidate, and Sarah Palin, his running-mate, voiced similar misgivings: better to have helped the rebels clinch their victory when they appeared to be on a roll than come to their defence when they were at their last gasp on the edge of defeat.
The last-gasp finish for last season's 30-goal top scorer Holt - his third strike in five days - was one of the few moments of quality in a game that looked to be heading for a stalemate.
Wales rescued an incredible last-gasp 31-24 win against Scotland in their last championship game in Cardiff.
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Messi netted at the start of injury time after an initial block by Forster but Barca could not repeat the last-gasp heroics of Celtic's visit to the Nou Camp last month, when Vilanova's team snatched a 2-1 victory.
Friday's last-gasp 21-20 semi-final victory at Harlequins was the Falcons' third win in a row.
Rangers could even have snatched a last-gasp victory when midfielder Steven Davis struck the post.
Sean St Ledger put the Republic 2-1 ahead on 87 minutes before Alberto Gilardino's last-gasp equaliser.
And Bristol held on for the vital win when Myler's last-gasp drop-goal drifted wide of the posts.
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