The highly inflammatory rhetoric used by government leaders to sell the ill-conceived TARP program was the last straw.
For Shiites I spoke to, the attack on the shrine was simply the last straw.
And it was - a lot of people think it was the last straw for him.
This rise has not been backdated, which has been the last straw for them.
But our correspondent says that the clashes on Tuesday were the last straw for Mr Borisov.
Terrorism was the last straw but it was really technology that destroyed the illusion.
For all the effort many homeowners put into their turf, dead grass may be the last straw.
The last straw seems to have been Canberra's decision in July to issue a visa to Ms. Kadeer.
This outbreak could really be the last straw for a lot of farmers.
Because, for many loyal backbenchers who supported the decision to go to war on Iraq, this is the last straw.
But the BBC's Central Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe says that the clashes on Tuesday were the last straw for Mr Borisov.
That was the last straw for Mr Gross's coalition partners, the Christian Democrats, who threatened to pull out unless he resigned.
She added her accident last year, when she fell on the pavement at Westminster and broke her hip, was "the last straw".
"We skipped through the tracks, the reference to what you do to your own reflection in one song was the last straw!"
The exquisite G4 cube was the last straw: I found myself, against all my better instincts, once again seduced by the Apple charm.
When President Clinton invited Arafat to the White House for direct negotiations on the Middle East, Welsh says, that was the last straw.
Such is the climate U.S. gun manufacturers sometimes must contend with and why Cerberus probably saw this latest event as the last straw.
But the last straw was lack of political support, say Palestinians.
The last straw came when his daughter Emily rang to whine about her privileged life with her newest husband among the irritating people of France.
The last straw appears to have been Saturday's last-minute defeat at Ipswich which left the club 10 points off the play-off zone with seven games to go.
Early this week, the last straw was a bad call by a replacement referee that gave the win to the Green Bay Packers over the Seattle Seahawks.
The last straw came on Sept. 6, when the PLO hijacked four civilian airliners, flying three to Dawson's Field in PLO-controlled northern Jordan and one to Cairo.
And I think for some people this financial crisis is basically the last straw, that we know people want change, we've been seeing that in all the polls.
Pentagon officials simply became weary of such a prolonged, contentious relationship with one reporter, and decided the ground rule violation was the last straw before enacting a ban.
His obstinacy over the customs union was the last straw.
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Doing this with Bioware may, however, be the last straw.
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The last straw came in November when Israel killed six gunmen it said were digging tunnels to launch a raid on Israel, spurring Hamas to respond with a barrage of rockets.
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