We had to wait until you were all the way under; sometimes people make a last-minute effort to start down again.
Despite several last-minute efforts by the Senate to salvage part of the program, it finally fell.
"I think there is a problem with this kind of last-minute legislative effort to score political points."
So, a last-minute effort to shift public attention could have some impact.
In foreign policy, he has not even had programs to rescue with last-minute efforts.
It had become public last October, when a last-minute effort to keep the museum open failed.
He is concerned as well that any last-minute effort to compromise may also mean a weakened environmental law.
But that did not happen, and Council leaders are undertaking a last-minute effort to urge the public to vote no.
New York made a last-minute effort to get him by actually offering more money than the 49ers, but it was too late.
That outburst led to a last-minute effort to rescue a deal.
