It was a last-ditch effort to transform Florida Wonderland into something much bigger.

The military placed Sharif under house arrest, but in a last-ditch effort Sharif privately ordered Karachi air traffic controllers to redirect Musharraf's flight to India.

The Auxiliary-SS ( SS mannschaft ) was an organization that arose in 1945 as a last-ditch effort to keep concentration camps running.

Scientists assert that asexual reproduction in the wild is rare, and probably a last-ditch effort to reproduce when a mate is not present.

He then mounted a last-ditch effort to revive the defence of England.

Tengai orders Buster and Reana to head for space, while he makes a last-ditch effort and attempt to stall the Stone-Like, just as Gai did.

A last-ditch effort by southerners to table the entire bill was defeated by 94 – 78, and then the entire bill was approved 85 – 80.

Kennett's supporters urged the Liberal Party to force a vote of ' no confidence ' on the floor of the parliament in a last-ditch effort to force Savage, Davies and Ingram to support the Liberal government ; however with the Liberal Party divided on Kennett's future role, Kennett resigned as Leader of the Liberal Party and from Parliament, saying he wished to have no further involvement in politics.

By the time of the third book in the series, Thrawn has nearly defeated the New Republic, but they claim victory in a last-ditch effort, and Thrawn is killed by his own bodyguard, shattering the Empire's unity.

Doriana, as a last-ditch effort to save Thrawn, throws a toggle switch on Thrawn's command chair, causing the droid fighters to stop attacking the Vagaari and instead perform suicide runs against the Outbound Flight and to drop a radiation weapon into the hulled Dreadnaught vessels.

Bull had been working on a last-ditch effort to launch a Canadian flag into orbit in time for the Canadian Centennial, but nothing came of this plan.

A last-ditch effort by the Confederates to stop Samuel Curtis ' march to Helena.

In 1994, Doc made a last-ditch effort to keep the mill running.

Lorenzo considered selling Eastern's profitable Latin American routes to AA as part of a Chapter 11 reorganization of Eastern in early 1989, but backed out in a last-ditch effort to rebuild the MIA hub.

The rank of the Guardians has weakened as well ; while there were originally twelve of them as Head Guardians, there are now six of them, after Ganthet and Sayd left Oa, and one Guardian died after a battle with Superman-Prime-this Guardian willfully " detonated " himself in an unsuccessful, last-ditch effort to destroy the insane Kryptonian ( who wished to destroy the Universe in his own right ).

He suddenly bolts, though, in a last-ditch effort to run away.

" PEP is really a last-ditch effort to get a message out if the president cannot get to the media.

In a last-ditch effort to save the studio, Essanay joined in a four-way merger orchestrated by Chicago distributor George Kleine in 1918.

Quite commonly, blind bids are allowed only if the bidding team is at least 100 points behind, and in many cases, whether a minimum point spread is required, these risky bids are typically made by a team with a large deficit as a last-ditch effort ; blind bids made in this situation are typically called " trailing blind bids ".

After an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to lure Red Grange to Rochester ( he instead signed with the Chicago Bears ), the team suspended operations after the 1925 NFL season ; by this point, the team had been losing money ( to the point where Lyons ' house had been foreclosed upon because of his dumping of virtually all his assets into the team ) and had been a traveling team for two seasons ( 1920 and 1925 ).

Tangwai regarded the arrest of Yu as a signal of complete suppression and decided to make a last-ditch effort by holding radical demonstrations on the street, resulting in the escalating conflict between the conservative KMT and Tangwai.

Most imperial historians have argued that the East India Company was drawn reluctantly into political and military conflict in India, only taking an interest in territorial power and revenue as a last-ditch effort to protect its trading activities.

Coogan has suggested that Reginald Dunne, who had the confidence of both Michael Collins and Rory O ' Connor, undertook the shooting as a last-ditch effort to provoke the British Government into retaliating, thereby uniting both sides of the Nationalists.

With the effective crippling of her best striking arm, Japan was increasingly forced to rely on land-based kamikaze suicide aircraft in a last-ditch effort to stave off total U. S. naval and air supremacy.

The East Tennessee Land Company, unable to pay the interest on its million-dollar loan, attempted a last-ditch stock sale to raise money to pay off the loan, but the sale failed.

The conflict also led to an increased interest in the close defense capabilities of naval ships, including Close-in weapon systems ( CIWS ) as a last-ditch defense against incoming missiles.

After failing to be able to return to her home planet she is hunting the children of Earth in a last-ditch attempt to resolve her hunger.

On 22 June 1966, Sukarno made the Nawaksara speech in front of MPRS session, an unsuccessful last-ditch attempt to defend himself and his guided democracy system.

During the war against the Shivans, a last-ditch attack in subspace saves the planet from destruction, but at the cost of collapsing the FTL node that allows access to the system.

After being freed from captivity by France Five and his robot assistant Margarine, Professor Burgonde initiates a top-secret program in France Five's system as a last-ditch effort to save them.

For last-ditch emergencies SAC has alternate command posts on KC-135 jet tankers.

These wards failed, and a last-ditch ritual caused thorns to thrust through the skin of the blood elves.

In a final confrontation with a traitor at the institute ( the X-Men's teammate Xorn, posing as Magneto ) Jean fully realizes and assumes complete control of the powers of the Phoenix Force, but is killed in a last-ditch lethal attack by Xorn.

A last-ditch attempt, known as " Operation Bodenplatte ", to win air superiority on 1 January 1945 failed.

Poznań fell to the Red Army ( assisted by Polish volunteers ) on 23 February 1945 following the Battle of Poznań, in which the German army conducted a last-ditch defence in line with Hitler's designation of the city as a Festung.

In a last-ditch attempt to win the war, Skynet sends a cybernetic assassin called a Terminator back through time to murder Connor's mother Sarah before he is born, thereby preventing Connor's existence and the success of his future rebellion.

In late 1944, the German army launched a last-ditch offensive across Belgium, Luxembourg, and northeastern France, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, nominally led by German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt.

The Allies only recognized this after several heavy setbacks, and the Germans were able to hold the region until they launched their last-ditch offensive on the Western Front into the Ardennes.

Although the commissioner did not know it, this move foiled Ponzi's last-ditch plan to " borrow " funds from the bank vaults after all other efforts to obtain funds failed.

He was given command of the right wing in the Battle of the Colline Gate when the remaining Marian adherents and the surviving Samnites marched on Rome in a last-ditch bid to oust Sulla from Rome.

Schimmelpenninck made a last-ditch attempt to have the treaty referred to a plebiscite, but he was ignored.

As a last-ditch attempt to get new monetary reforms approved, Louis XVI convoked the Estates-General on 8 August 1788, setting the date of their opening at 1 May 1789.

Tang Shengzhi devised a two-stage defense: a defense of the outlying suburbs followed by a last-ditch defense of the city walls and gates.

The " walking wounded ", including Hansan, are called back to duty for a last-ditch defense of the town.