Until the last moment, Mr Barnier had insisted the new proposals would include some form of a ban.
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As has become the norm in America, the negotiation seems set to continue right up until the last moment.
The sites of polling stations were kept secret until the last moment.
It will continue absolutely until the last moment when it is necessary to part in order for two parties to go into two campaigns on separate manifestos.
And when the market has been as strong as this one, up 20 percent since the start of 2012, lots of tax payers are waiting until the last moment to sell.
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Expectations are that Republicans and Democrats eventually will strike some kind of debt-ceiling agreement to avoid default, although it may not happen until the last moment due to the political posturing.
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With the debt-ceiling crisis, however, the willingness to wait until the last moment removed any chance of learning and, more to the point, there was never much of a commitment to learning on the part of many of the principal actors: over and over again we were informed that such thoughtful exploration was out of the question because of prior campaign pledges made to constituents.
Yesterday I met with the bereaved family of Taylor Anderson, who unfortunately passed away, but who took care of children until the very last moment following the Great East Japan Earthquake.
He waits until the last possible moment, and then he springs the trap.
Kieron Dyer will be given "until the last possible moment" to prove his fitness before Sven-Goran Eriksson names his final squad.
You want to postpone the decision until the last possible moment.
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Half the money provided in 1996's three-year programme was not allocated until this September, the last possible moment.
The Yankees nearly did that with A-Rod in 2007 until Hank Steinbrenner stepped in at the last moment with a crazy 10-year deal.
Yeah, well according to the New York Times last summer they were about to score a big deal with Comcast to do precisely this, that is until Ramsay pulled the plug at the last moment because he was convinced TiVo wasn't getting paid enough money or given enough control over the service.
At the moment the trust fund that pays for hospital and nursing home care has enough money to last until the year 2019.
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