Then it was stopped and the leukaemia got aggressive and the transplant was the last resort.
If the last resort of a scoundrel is patriotism, then the next-to-last must surely be name-calling.
Some will be decided in auctions, the last resort of the ICANN process, others possibly in court.
Heart transplants are the last resort for end-stage heart disease, but there aren't enough organs to go around.
Those that fail to perform will face penalties and, in the last resort, the threat of outside intervention.
The use of force against the opposition would probably be the last resort.
In the last resort, she ran a smart campaign and reaped the benefits.
Pharmaceuticals should be the last resort after therapies and behavioral interventions, Pavuluri said.
The council said compulsory redundancies would be the last resort and it would look to cut vacant posts and seek volunteers.
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"The last resort is a military action, " Olmert told "CNN International's Amanpour" in an interview that was shot Sunday and aired Monday.
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The central bank -- supposed to be the lender of the last resort -- became the lender of first and only resort!
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Ms. VALENZUELA: You know, we're going and this is the last resort.
Dumping them all into the public domain would be the last resort.
The federal government, that unwieldy leviathan, should be the last resort.
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Courts still offer a forum of last resort to resolve disputes but given their astronomical cost, they are truly the last resort, and then only for the wealthy.
The concept of limited liability, whereby the shareholders are not liable, in the last resort, for the debts of their company, can be traced back to the Romans.
Mr Neill said the council would try to make some cuts by not filling vacancies, but warned that "in some cases the last resort will be about compulsory redundancies".
Therefore, in my humble opinion, this coup was the only way to go, the last resort (especially when politicions have brought country to the brink of destruction in last 10 years).
Gift cards often get a bad rap as the last resort in holiday shopping, what we supposedly get only when all hope of a carefully considered present has gone out the window.
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But the complicating factor in all this is the Health Minister's statement to the effect that in the last resort, families would wield some sort of veto - but based on what?
And, according to Professor Hyman, this also weakened the power of local union activists like shop stewards, and unions adopted a more "strategic" use of power, where strike were the last resort, not the first course of action.
"As one of the chief architects of the AIG bailout, Secretary Geithner was in a position to do what any lender of the last resort would do -- negotiate concessions from AIG, " he said in a press release.
The Last Resort re-wrote the rules for photographers, placed colour photography in the UK on the map and even now, more than 25 years on it still has the power to shock and amuse all at the same time.
And fearmongering about the dangerous strategic implications of an end to the "territorial integrity" of the Soviet Union continues to be the last resort of those opposed to a policy of favoring the restive republics rather than the ruling Gorbachev clique.
In a region well known for political turmoil, perhaps it has something to do with martial-arts fiction being the last resort of social justice, where wrongs are righted not through law and order seldom useful in the real world but with the arrival of the martial-arts heroes.
But when we look at the murder, rape and starvation still being inflicted on the people of Darfur, we realize that such doctrines remain pure rhetoric unless those with the power to intervene effectively -- by exerting political, economic or, in the last resort, military muscle -- are prepared to take the lead.
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