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.
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 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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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".
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.
These options have now been ruled out for Thames Valley but, in future, mergers and takeovers should not be regarded as the last resort: it may well be the best and quickest solution for an ailing university to be absorbed by another with successful courses, high standards, good management and a strong image.
We were the purchasers of last resort, we were the importers of last resort, we would stimulate our economies and our American consumers would buy stuff around the world.
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For a lot of authors, self-publishing is going from the option of last resort to the option of first resort.
For Labour, shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said the European Central Bank (ECB) should be the lender of last resort for the eurozone and "does need to be delivering more fire power".
The plan must still be approved by Congress, but after the dust clears the Fed will not only serve as the lender of last resort to the ailing mortgage buyers but will also have a consultative role in their regulation.
The communication difficulties between the UK Treasury, the FSA and the Bank of England during the Northern Rock crisis in 2007 illustrated some of the problems that can occur when there is incomplete co-ordination between the lender of last resort and the bank supervisor.
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The necessary steps would also involve full "mutualisation" of eurozone sovereign debt, the pooling of sovereign liabilities, which would permit the European Central Bank to be the lender of last resort to the currency union - and give the eurozone the kind of protection against the risk of default that the UK and the US have.
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