With hopes dimming that Kaiba would survive, doctors tried the medical equivalent of a "Hail Mary" pass.
But if a merger looks like a Hail Mary attempt to save a dying company--run.
Can there be a stronger admission of failure than to launch such a desperate Hail Mary?
But fans never stopped identifying him as the ultimate college player, Heisman Trophy winner, Hail Mary man.
"The Hail Mary portion is the wholesale reform of Medicare, " said Aaron, an economist who has not endorsed either candidate's plan.
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At first and 35, you may be tempted to go for a "Hail Mary" and make up yardage all at once.
"Metastatic breast cancer was always a 'Hail Mary, '" says Michael King , a sell-side biotech analyst at Bank of America Securities .
They moved the ball, but had only enough time for a "Hail Mary" pass that bounced away in the Giants end zone.
Watson's par, after the Hail Mary from the trees, ended the day.
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He led the congregation in two beloved prayers the Our Father and the Hail Mary took a moment of silence and struck a meek tone.
The defense's game plan may last well into April, but without a successful Hail Mary pass, it will come up short of preventing a conviction.
Speyer just committed the financial equivalent of a Hail Mary pass.
Even so, I mean, is there a sense that they're - that they've - are they about to throw a "Hail Mary" pass on the campaign?
The inevitable comparison to a huge ocean liner congers up images of draconian measures a monetary policy Hail Mary likely to accelerate inflation internally and debase the currency externally.
Junk shot might sound like a Hail Mary, but the technique has worked in clogging onshore blowouts so that they can then be smothered with weighted mud.
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While Samsung failed in a Hail Mary bid to have the suit dismissed, it successfully argued that a few devices should escape the clutches of a full-fledged ban.
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MS. PSAKI: Well, first, I mean, just to reiterate, these Jeep ads that the Romney team have been running are a Hail Mary pass by the Romney team.
The state's finances are such a mess that in late 2007 Governor Corzine proposed the political "Hail Mary" of mortgaging New Jersey's toll roads in return for a guaranteed revenue stream.
On the game's final play, Brady dodged one more Giants lineman before lofting a Hail Mary into a mass of New England and New York hands and helmets in the end zone.
With the whole enterprise near collapse and in desperate need of a Hail Mary play, Dodge finagles to secure the services of Carter Rutherford (the bland John Krasinski), an Ivy League star with real marquee value.
In choosing to throw a Hail Mary pass to General Petraeus, the President has chosen a commander who understands counterinsurgency, who helped to design the current Afghan strategy, and who knows how to lead and motivate soldiers.
He did manage his bold stroke telling viewers that they should write or wire the Republican National Committee with their opinion of whether he should remain on the ticket but the network cut off this Hail Mary pass in mid-flight.
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Deportivo was losing 2-1 at the time and, with the clock ticking away, everyone expected a long, looping Hail Mary type whack into the Madrid box, hoping for a deflection or a header or even a deflected header to equalize: in those situations, you can't really be picky.
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Research in Motion on the other hand has invested heavily developing its soon to be released Blackberry 10 OS. Early reviews are favorable, and its likely Research in Motion wants to bring this to market for a hail Mary pass rather than throw in the towel now.
Turning at this relatively late date to some kind of Hail Mary of bombast and this is the speech you would get would make for a painful double confession: that the economic game has been lost, and that this is all they can think to replace it with.
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