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Sentence Examples At least once or twice, most of us have procrastinated until the eleventh hour and then we rush to meet an obligation or responsibility. Megson and his advisers only discovered Imerman was involved at the eleventh hour. But at the eleventh hour, anxious to complete, I resorted to transferring a photograph of a bitterroot bloom to fabric. Even if, like Harold Wilson in 1974-76, he had already decided to step down, he would be ill-advised to announce this before the eleventh hour. You do not want to be left hunting for a decent Stilton or Vacherin at the eleventh hour. A week ago a national rail strike was called off at the eleventh hour when the management backed down over pensions. A few years ago, the property was almost sold but the sale fell through at the eleventh hour. The company came close to being bought up by a larger rival last year, but the deal fell through at the eleventh hour. A ball detent on the magazine follower proved to be the fix at the eleventh hour. I join him in thanking the French Presidency of the Council, which endeavoured to find a compromise at the eleventh hour. On the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, we will remember. Failure to participate in tournaments of such magnitude at the eleventh hour, he added, would be costly as the organisers demand heavy fines for inconveniencing them. Accounts vary as to whether Kerry was able to secure a guarantee from Fabius not to break ranks in the eleventh hour of talks. At the eleventh hour the door was left slightly ajar once more. At the eleventh hour, I realized that something that all the commentators had referred to as if it were a fait accompli was actually very much up in the air. As the debt talks were lurching into the eleventh hour, McConnell proposed a way out of the problem. And at the eleventh hour, Peggy Olson saves the company by landing an account with topaz Pantyhose. Once again, the Iranians made an apparent nuclear deal with the West, only to wriggle away at the eleventh hour yesterday. This happened because we received information at the eleventh hour about certain irregularities in the accounts. Meanwhile the work-to-rule by ward clerks which was due to begin at University College Hospital Galway yesterday morning was suspended at the eleventh hour. Show More Sentences In fact Kennedy and Khrushchev did bend the bars just enough to reach out to each other at the eleventh hour. And comedy The Neighbors, which received an eleventh hour reprieve, is now headed to Fridays. Twelve months ago, theatregoers were denied the delights of Oriel quad's annual allotment of classic drama when Marlowe's Edward II was shelved at the eleventh hour. It was literally at the eleventh hour that we achieved the result that all desired. It is hard to see why it has appeared at the eleventh hour of the debate on this bill. We were at the eleventh hour, the industry was about to go into a serious crisis, and the government decided to act. Perhaps people taking this lull in the movement of the hurricane to come in and try and find gasoline at this, the eleventh hour of these mandatory evacuations. That of course is not to detract from the overriding objective at hand, to do everything we can to try to avert war at the eleventh hour. It belongs properly in the hands of Congress not the hands of bureaucrats in the eleventh hour of an administration. A contract signed with a printer at the eleventh hour will allow the newspaper to continue to appear for the time being. Indisputably, the challenge at the eleventh hour is to ensure the simultaneous opening of all polling stations in all electoral districts. Today, and at the eleventh hour, the Commission have advised me, albeit indirectly, of its difficulties. But the point that we made earlier is that this bill is actually a rewrite, because we had Supplementary Order Paper 107 lodged yesterday at the eleventh hour. But at the eleventh hour Gazprom withdrew its interest, leaving no bidder at all. The government has delayed until the eleventh hour and now seeks to quickly rush through this bill. We hope that at the eleventh hour, this excellent service can now be saved. Why does my colleague think this matter has been left until the eleventh hour? Otherwise this would not be happening at the eleventh hour and they would have done it properly and made the proper changes. Eleventh hour mediation services are important because deadline bargaining, or at least eleventh hour bargaining on key issues, is the norm in traditional bargaining practices. At the eleventh hour, his life was spared. Show More Sentences Hopefully next time it won't be in the eleventh hour. We are served these satisfying illusions — that we, the audience, get to help make the records we will be compelled to buy, that average shmoes can toil away for years and be rewarded for it in the eleventh hour, etc. Iceland powers up The other AIDS epidemic Ocean's eleventh hour? We are now in the eleventh hour and we have to ensure we have a very strong voice for making that diversion stay put, before anything else happens, until we get a proper environment impact assessment. Yet, despite entrenched positions, in the eleventh hour, Marco Ferrari, the able Swiss Chair of the Main Committee, was able to broker agreement to acknowledge both climate change and variability. If it was not the eleventh hour as some of our predecessors in the debate eloquently suggested, it is at least the witching hour and it is quite clear that all honest people and all MPs should be home in bed at this hour. Even now at this eleventh hour I would appeal to the Turkish Cypriot authorities to accept the United Nations proposals without further prevarication or quibble. Even at the eleventh hour, the campaign keeps us guessing. But at the eleventh hour Mr Lukashenka made peace with the Kremlin. Sadly, the turn toward pathos at the eleventh hour feels unearned. It is missing the point and I hope even that at the eleventh hour you will recognise a good idea when you see it, withdraw your resolution and support ours. Here we are, at the eleventh hour, and the pumps are ready to be primed to dump water into the Sheyenne River and into this country's water courses. This week we learned the Prime Minister has finally, at the eleventh hour, begun to call NATO countries to ask for much needed assistance for our troops. It was from one senator who thought he would raise it third reading, at the eleventh hour, as another way to stall this bill and to stall any form of democratic reform. We are now debating this matter at the eleventh hour, and the government finds it necessary to present and pass this legislation in the speediest manner possible. First, we must not leave things in the lap of the Gods, we must not take decisions at the eleventh hour, because we could bring the European Union to what may well be an explosive situation. Others claim that the disagreement is not a failure for Europe because agreements on the financial perspectives are always achieved at the eleventh hour. The debate on forests and forestry gave rise to very considerable tensions between countries of the North and South for the duration of the Conference and the weak final compromise was only reached at the eleventh hour. Much like medicine was able to cure the afflictions of old age of the intestinal canal only in the nick of time, again at the eleventh hour voices are raised to cure and update the sewer networks. Could the government explain what motivated this eleventh hour change, unbeknownst to Bombardier, to the requirements set out in the call for tenders? Show More Sentences Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of the First World War on Monday, November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m.: the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. What sort of contribution can we make at this eleventh hour? Hi George, trust you to turn up at the eleventh hour! Where, as in the case of cod, it is already the eleventh hour, we must take every measure possible: cut the number of days at sea, step up controls and impose the use of larger-meshed nets. The firm says inappropriate text messages to Democratic and undecided voters were used in the eleventh hour to intentionally confuse and suppress voter turnout. If she repented, though at the eleventh hour, it was not too late. She won an Emmy in 1963 for an episode of The eleventh Hour. Examples from Classical Literature And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. I only hope he doesn't want me to write another article at the eleventh hour. No man in your position has a right to fly out like this at the eleventh hour. In the eleventh hour she came to me to make terms for your pardon. The nerve he had been living on had suddenly snapped at the eleventh hour. As the eleventh hour struck, he entered with a swaggering air, attended by two of the most dissolute and reckless of his boon companions. Perhaps even I may move her so far yet, though it is the eleventh hour, and she upon the very brink of ruin. The Siwashes had waited on the white people until the eleventh hour, and then departed. At the eleventh hour I and threescore followers will cross the nullah. I feel now like a man who has redeemed a failing reputation and shed luster upon a dimmed escutcheon, by a single just deed done at the eleventh hour. It was only at the eleventh hour that our positions were inverted by the wholly unexpected selection of Raffles for the English team in the Second Test Match. The draughtsman who had been already appointed to accompany it has lost heart, and withdrawn at the eleventh hour, and Walter is to fill his place. If any guest failed at the eleventh hour, Todd was asked to dine. Find more words! 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