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Diving in at the last moment to save Jon Snow?
At the last moment, though, Ninja bailed, claiming illness. Burn!
I chickened out on the collar at the last moment.
I throw in a fig bar at the last moment, too.
The flowers were added at the last moment to remain fresh.
But at the last moment, something shifts: The Nauvoo misses Eros.
Let's not jeopardize this years-long effort at the last moment.
At the last moment, the bid to buy Valegro fell through.
At the last moment, Israel downgraded that further to its deputy ambassador.
A planned acquisition of the company fell through at the last moment.
At the last moment, the other driver swerved to let us pass.
And yet, at the last moment, she had been released into joy.
The day is always saved, at the last moment, by improbable events.
You can't at the last moment shove POTUS out of the way.
We're looking at the last moment in the life of a ship.
But the North pulled out of the meeting at the last moment.
It was a planned suburban community that fell through at the last moment.
However, she said Abarca-Nogueda reneged on the agreement at the last moment.
His late arrival meant that his itinerary was changed at the last moment.
Fernando Hierro, the technical director, stepped in as coach at the last moment.
Current affairs programs criticizing the army are routinely dropped at the last moment.
And just as in the 100, he was caught at the last moment.
When Mitchell grabbed it at the last moment, he took ownership over it.
Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, pulled her from danger at the last moment.
At the last moment Filipina Mary Jane Veloso, also sentenced to death, was spared.
INGRAHAM: ...takes back the deal at the last moment on some seemingly spurious grounds.
This attack on public confidence in election results was thwarted at the last moment.
At the last moment, she found herself walking alone, being abused by the crowd.
At the last moment, it decamped over the guardrail, and our lunatic chase continued.
Practicing that over and over again, and then it getting changed at the last moment.
Some Gambians said they had feared Jammeh might change his mind at the last moment.
There's maybe just enough of that to help avert the crisis at the last moment.
There will be no secret savior coming to snatch it away at the last moment.
Then, at the last moment, Apple bailed, possibly because the mat was prone to overheating.
He repeatedly escapes death and imprisonment, and once is spared hanging at the last moment.
At the last moment, he calls his future in-laws and asks for permission to propose.
Rather, it was late-arriving, off-duty airline employees who needed seats at the last moment.
President Donald Trump came close to retaliating but called off an airstrike at the last moment.
Even if the princess demurs at the last moment, her flirtation with running changes Thai politics.
A meeting had been arranged several years ago, but Berkowitz backed out at the last moment.
However, the government could decide at the last moment to extend the deadline for final offers.
The Toffees hijacked the deal at the last moment, as often happens on transfer deadline day.
The E.U.'s move seemed calculated to pressure lawmakers at the last moment into supporting Mrs.
A man who has waited a lifetime for a woman loses her at the last moment.
AG: There was interest from other spaces, but MUAC in Mexico cancelled at the last moment.
"We originally decided on neon yellow, then we went with green at the last moment," she says.
But then Darius shows up — totally unplanned — at the last moment, and saves her, cutting Jameson instead.
Trump said in a tweet that the meeting's "terms and conditions" were changed at the last moment.
But at the last moment, Gantz nixed the original candidate, putting himself forward for the Speaker's chair.
In 2004, Dean, who was the front-runner, was overtaken at the last moment by then-U.
Kaepernick moved his tryout at the last moment amid a disagreement with the N.F.L. over media access.
And why did they change their route at the last moment, after leaving the town of Sibut?
Are they going to let her run and then at the last moment say you can't run?
He's cut trips short at the last moment, as he did in Singapore last year after meeting Kim.
Putin canceled at the last moment, but was thoughtful enough to send a gift along with his regrets.
She nearly got away with it but was caught at the last moment and forced to pay up.
The ball dived away from the hole at the last moment and settled about a postcard's width away.
That person added that seats were changed at the last moment to accommodate the children per their request.
Instead, she was rejected at the last moment, robbing her of her ability to select between her suitors.
An internet sales tax was originally embedded in that bill, but was pulled out at the last moment.
There is no indication that any of the participants will improve or manage something impressive at the last moment.
The protagonists chase success, coming tantalizingly close to a victory before having it snatched away at the last moment.
"That's subject to change at the last moment, but I think this will be a great choice," he added.
Other reports said the billionaire had second thoughts about Pence and tried to back out at the last moment.
That 85033 summit collapsed at the last moment, but eventually led to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Instead the Treasury Department, possibly at the last moment, merely repeated a list of Russian oligarchs taken from Forbes.
Luke uses the Force, fires the shot that destroys the Death Star at the last moment, saving the Rebellion.
But then Filippo manages to sell a big nugget at the last moment, a leftover from his previous transaction.
And when an American reconnaissance drone was downed, a U.S. counter-strike was called off at the last moment.
But the FDA pulled the plug at the last moment to placate the most resistant segments of the industry.
But with DiCaprio, there's always the sense that someone might swoop in at the last moment and win instead.
Previous attempts failed as would-be buyers backed away at the last moment due to lack of funds, Alrosa said.
India's defence minister Manohar Parrikar was supposed to launch the phone, but did not turn up at the last moment.
She argued that MPs would only be given a vote on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill at the last moment.
Then Michael tried to strangle her in her sleep, but stopped himself at the last moment and asked for forgiveness.
Events that have been organised have usually been cancelled by promoters at the last moment due to threats of violence.
His form vindicates his decision to pull out of the French Open at the last moment because of injury concerns.
He is unpredictable, living outside the realm of rote characterizations, doing what we least expect, and at the last moment.
To anyone buying a hot dog and glancing up at the last moment, it would have seemed a routine play.
At the last moment, they opted for 12-megapixels - a rare step down in an industry fixated on higher numbers.
It was only when he raised his offer by $237 million that he clinched the sale at the last moment.
When it was finally our turn, we slipped into the seats, but at the last moment, I hopped back out.
At the last moment, God, satisfied with Abraham's devotion, saves the boy by sending a ram as a substitute sacrifice.
In a few instances, the two sides appeared bound for a court fight, only to resolve it at the last moment.
But even a Rubio surge wouldn't suggest that Republican voters decided to turn at the last moment toward an inclusive politics.
In the House's first attempt at passing it, back in March, moderates shied away from the bill at the last moment.
The incident brought Trump within minutes of launching a strike against Iran, he claimed, before pulling back at the last moment.
The last time was during the Iraq war in 2003, when Colin Powell was forced to cancel at the last moment.
The Chandrayaan 2 should have blasted off on Monday, but was postponed at the last moment for still unexplained technical reasons.
You decide to gun it but, at the last moment, see a police car out of the corner of your eye.
At the last moment, his prey in his trap, his point made, he calmly knocked the ball off to his side.
Kylian Mbappé sends Olivier Giroud on goal with a spectacular back heel, but Giroud's shot is blocked at the last moment.
Mr. Trump himself is yet another wild card, given his track record of upending bipartisan funding agreements at the last moment.
VX nerve agent can be delivered in two compounds that are mixed at the last moment to create a lethal dose.
I'm forgetting Paul's name, but anyway at the last moment, they offered him an editing job and he turned them down.
Could centerfielder Leonys Martin have made that catch if he was playing deeper, or didn't alligator-arm it at the last moment?
That's because an airline has the right to change the equipment it planned to use on a flight at the last moment.
" He explained, "we were not in [EA's] initial plans for FIFA 17 but at the last moment they wanted to include us.
Rumors surfaced today that Kanye nearly walked off set after his stage had been tampered with at the last moment, ET reports.
He imagines that it was the smartest dog of the pack, the one that realized, at the last moment, what was happening.
In recent days, the governor has castigated lawmakers for stuffing millions of dollars in projects into the budget at the last moment.
Britain's foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, agreed to attend at the last moment, on promises that he could lead a session on Yemen.
If not, well then, my team doesn't stand a chance — unless Ned Umber swoops in at the last moment to surprise us all.
Provocations, scuffles and fistfights between his supporters and protesters were such that Mr Trump decided at the last moment to cancel the rally.
It offers the tale of a small community — Bedford Falls — that at the last moment manages to extricate itself from a downward spiral.
Attorneys for MLB and Rogers argued in court that a ban on "Indians" and Chief Wahoo, at the last moment, was not workable.
It's impossible to predict if Iraq's Kurds will blink at the last moment, or if a meaningful compromise formula will emerge in time.
Sensing danger at the last moment, however, Mr. Kojayev stepped back as a colleague picked up the drone, which was sprung with explosives.
Mr. Anaya's campaign is now counting on undecided voters and those voters who are uncertain enough to switch allegiances at the last moment.
" The group encouraged Amazon to lead in the effort to reach zero emissions — not resign itself to "sliding in at the last moment.
Apps and websites can also bring the cheapest tickets to your fingertips, especially if you're looking to see a game at the last moment.
" Urban said she made her decision at the last moment and described it as a "sort of a moment of surrendering my divided thoughts.
Though two of those dragons are locked up, the third was free, and it swept in to save its mother at the last moment.
But at the last moment, when Sansa thinks Arya might possibly want to gut her, Arya flips the blade around, and hands it over.
As the booster lands it shakes the drone ship pretty hard, which can cause the video signal to be lost at the last moment.
Eventually, French authorities caught up with him and put him on trial for dozens of attempted frauds, many thwarted only at the last moment.
If a cutter does not dart sharply at the last moment, it is just a slower fastball that stays in a hitter's bat path.
Members of Caroline's family wanted to avenge the crime with an attack on a Protestant girl, but Caroline sabotaged it at the last moment.
White House aides confirm that Trump has repeatedly walked away from compromises at the last moment because Fox hosts and guests opposed the deals.
And a big chunk of his voters on Tuesday decided on him at the last moment, with many attributing their decisions to the endorsements.
"It was only at the last moment that they quickly notified everyone and told them 'We're about to show this film,'" Mr. Lee said.
Iowans are famous for making up their minds at the last moment -- even as late as the cold night when they gather to caucus.
It is certainly not too late — Ross Perot pulled it off at the last moment — but they need to see reality and move soon.
Throughout the negotiating process, he has suggested that a deal is about to be consummated, only to pull the rug at the last moment.
He was almost traded to Milwaukee last July before a deal for Carlos Gomez was nixed at the last moment by Gomez's faulty physical.
Even though the invitation was extended at the last moment, the source told Gizmodo, Klotz agreed to stay on out of a sense of duty.
Fortunately, at the last moment, Frenchie is able to help save the nun, and everyone rides off into the sunset via his horse and buggy.
But at the last moment, his uber-masculinity and straightness in Korea's Confucian culture are preserved when a feminine Viola materializes from beneath her k.d.
O'Shea's jam-packed schedule speaks of the magnitude and diversity of his new role, which, surprisingly, didn't find him pinning clothes at the last moment.
Pompeo had planned to meet his North Korean counterpart to discuss a second summit last November, but the meeting was postponed at the last moment.
After the surfer completes their run, the shark trains his attention on the wagging foot of another boarder, only to be diverted at the last moment.
She reveals at the last moment that she actually can speak the Valyrian that he's been using to insult her, and has Drogon roast him alive.
But their emergence at the last moment, and Foxconn's decision to hit the brakes in response, raises questions about what might be lurking in Sharp's books.
Trump had threatened to defy the Supreme Court's recent ruling prohibiting inclusion of a citizenship question on the census, but backed off at the last moment.
Krasnodar, one of the fastest-growing cities in Russia's south, was on the proposed host cities list but was removed at the last moment in 2012.
At the last moment he centers, but in the scramble there's no shot — except the one on Pickford that draws a whistle and ends the threat.
His shot was headed for the open left side of the net, but defender Cristian Gamboa got his shin in the way at the last moment.
Trump tweeted in June that he had called off a military strike at the last moment after U.S. officials said Iran shot down an American drone.
After Iran downed a U.S drone earlier this year, Trump nearly approved a military strike on the country — only to back off at the last moment.
It's an endlessly entertaining work precisely because of how artfully it navigates painterly conventions, raising certain formal expectations only to dodge them at the last moment.
That buzzy, dread-filled vibe the past few episodes built up threatens to explode throughout the hour but always calms down again at the last moment.
Gove teamed up with Johnson during the 20153 Brexit campaign only to pull his support for Johnson's subsequent leadership bid at the last moment and run himself.
Eve and Villanelle nearly run away together to start a new life, but at the last moment, Eve rejects Villanelle and Villanelle shoots Eve, possibly killing her.
Which is also why it would be delightfully masochistic for the show to pull the rug out from under us at the last moment in Season 8.
Gove teamed up with Johnson during the 2016 Brexit campaign only to pull his support for Johnson's subsequent leadership bid at the last moment and run himself.
At the last moment, four United personnel needed to be ferried from Chicago to Louisville and the ground staff dutifully asked for volunteers to cede their seats.
Abdeslam is believed to have planned to blow himself up along with the other attackers in Paris last November, but then backed out at the last moment.
The deal almost collapsed this weekend with the club's administrator blaming Ken Anderson, its previous owner, for scuppering it at the last moment (Mr Anderson denies this).
Given that the last meeting of the foreign secretaries, three years ago, was called off at the last moment, this was seen as a good enough development.
Mark Hemsley, president of Cboe Europe, which trades over 20 percent of Swiss shares, said the EU could end up extending permission to Switzerland at the last moment.
Kathy Bates also turned up, as a bizarrely adorned local townie, while Wes Bentley appeared at the last moment as a leader of an outlandish local woodland cult.
Di Maio said the joint program the two groups are drawing up is "almost completed," and called on the League not to pull out at the last moment.
Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners during the 231 referendum, scuppered Johnson's 22005 leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners during the 2016 referendum, scuppered Johnson's 22005 leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
The car begins to merge right into another lane without signaling, but is forced to abort at the last moment as a speeding car nearly causes a collision.
But the CFDA had planned to televise the evening (that idea fell through at the last moment), and it is still talking about doing so in the future.
The segment was changed at the last moment, he contended, to a debate with Fox host Eric Bolling over a poll regarding race relations unfavorable to President Obama.
Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners during the 2016 referendum, scuppered Johnson's 20153 leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners during the 2016 referendum, scuppered Johnson's 2016 leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
First the Dutch defender chases down Son and breaks up a shot at the last moment, then he clears a cross by Kane that could have been trouble.
Mr. Pompeo claimed that the Russians had talked Mr. Maduro at the last moment out of boarding a plane and fleeing the country, and hinted at military intervention.
On four occasions, he was—like the young Dostoyevsky, in 1849—subject to mock executions, taken out to be shot only to be "reprieved" at the last moment.
At the last moment, it leveled out again and began another climb, looking for all the world as though it were being piloted by a hopelessly indecisive hijacker.
Gove teamed up with Boris Johnson during the 2016 Brexit campaign only to pull his support for Johnson's subsequent leadership bid at the last moment and run himself.
Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners during the 231 referendum, scuppered Johnson's 231 leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
He teamed up with Johnson during the 2016 Brexit campaign only to scupper Johnson's subsequent leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
TV: All season long, it felt like the noose was really tightening around Philip and Elizabeth, but you always figured out how to pull back at the last moment.
At the last moment he switched from Mr Zuma's ex-wife and preferred candidate (since he assumed she would protect him from prosecution) to Mr Ramaphosa, ensuring his victory.
Syria's government has been largely obstructing U.N. attempts to reach civilian populations in other besieged zones — rejecting requests, blocking convoys at the last moment or issuing only conditional approvals.
Then, at the last moment, one more senator decided that the rushed and secretive process — a process decried even by Republicans who still voted to support it — was unacceptable.
Spain had victory snatched away at the last moment, denied a cathartic moment by its nearest neighbor, and yet there was no bitterness, no sorrow: only admiration, and awe.
The records obtained by BuzzFeed News indicate Bloomberg LP slow-walked discussions about the records, including canceling a meeting at the last moment and missing a phone call entirely.
The scientists helped the city government come up with an eradication plan to get rid of the parakeets in 2016, but at the last moment, officials canceled the plans.
Video footage of the accident, obtained by TMZ, shows Hunt's black SUV attempting to drive through an intersection and being t-boned by another vehicle at the last moment.
Just exactly how many members of Parliament will cross the aisle is the great unknown with many of the undecideds deciding which way to vote at the last moment.
He said they braced for Zelensky to announce the investigations in September, until the assistance money was ultimately released at the last moment and the presidential statement was averted.
But at the last moment when they would be able to add the song, Lehman said he woke up to the studio version of the song in his inbox.
So, apparently, was Rihanna, who dropped out at the last moment and could have been the agent of change, given her red carpet history (and recent Fenty x Puma show).
Huawei started the year with ambitious plans to enter the US market with a partnership with AT&T, which was only thwarted by the US government at the last moment.
Negotiations are ongoing and could still be delayed or collapse at the last moment, the people said, adding that both companies had a great interest in getting a deal done.
John McCain's status as a war hero to speculation about running as a third-party candidate and a Border Patrol union backing out of the visit at the last moment.
Ben may have (somewhat uncomfortably) agreed, but he was spared at the last moment when another contestant, Mandi, swooped in to score a little more pre-rose time with Ben.
He looks ready to take off—the defense starts swarming; Smith's left foot touches the line of scrimmage—until at the last moment he backpedals, cocks his arm, and throws.
"I think looking at him, Democrats would and should be insulted that he thinks he can come into their party at the last moment and run for president," she said.
This situation takes place in the same time frame but has Bostian lost, confusing Frankford Junction with the curve before it and realizing his mistake only at the last moment.
"I was told that I had to run so I was like, 'Okay, I can't disgrace myself today," said Ugen, who was drafted into the team at the last moment.
At the onset of the second visit, guards led him to the visiting room but at the last moment he said he didn't want to go through with the visit.
At the last moment, Mr. Cuomo decided not to run because of a budget impasse in the New York State Legislature — or at least that was the reason he gave.
At the last moment, under pressure from his collaborators, he withheld fifteen thousand reports that were most likely to contain details about Afghan informants, until they could be carefully analyzed.
At the last moment, Gordon-Hagerty's agency managed to rush through an unorthodox paperwork maneuver: It published a formal notice of its intent to issue a contract for Jason later.
"New Hampshire should have been won last time, except we had a lot of people come in at the last moment, which was a rather strange situation," Trump told journalists.
Those plans sometimes change at the last moment, but postings at the gate will provide passengers with the most current information about what aircraft will be used on their flights.
LeMahieu realized the error of their ways and left the bag at the last moment, but Arenado threw to him instead of Descalso, allowing Maeda to safely take the base.
On-call shifts require employees to be prepared for a shift they may or not actually be working, with the knowledge that they could be called off at the last moment.
He turned them back on again at the last moment and hovered a few centimeters above the ground, so that when they failed completely, he wouldn't have too far to fall.
The vice president was chosen at the last moment, and it was used a bargaining chip to get the presidency and a way to provide a consolation prize to the losers.
Several students and a school director, who all requested anonymity, said they had been ordered to return to class or had their trips to the field canceled at the last moment.
The Welshman looked set to complete a move to Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning earlier this summer, however Madrid club president Florentino Perez pulled the plug at the last moment.
"The strikes, I think, are on hold at the moment," Stavridis said, referring to reports that the White House had called off a military strike on Iran at the last moment.
It also was the most-protracted: Mr. Li missed several deadlines to complete the purchase and had to turn to Elliott at the last moment after potential business partners pulled out.
When the pressure ultimately becomes impossible to oppose, he relents, but at the last moment, decides to scale a cliff for a guillemot egg that he can sell to a collector.
Even with all of that, passage of the bill only came at the last moment, aided by a legal deadline demanding that lawmakers either address the program or let it die.
Before Sun's initial hearing at FINA, the organization replaced two officials — an Australian and an American — at the last moment, raising concerns about the process that eventually failed to punish Sun.
Most alarming, however, is the reported back story about just how Grenell came to be pitched at the last moment into this job for which he is all but utterly unqualified.
"His release saved our transition and the situation at the last moment ... We were in a very difficult moment in Tunisia which really threatened Tunisian democracy," Karoui's spokesman Hatem Mliki said.
When it turned out that Mr Timothy had inserted the dementia tax into the manifesto at the last moment without consulting anyone, even loyal Tories began to worry about her leadership style.
But Mr. Heikal said he first realized an Egyptian coup was in the works only at the last moment, when he ran into Nasser at the home of an Egyptian Army general.
The youngest Stark daughter had a triumphant victory as she leapt in the air the killed the Night King at the last moment, as purported hero Jon Snow...hid behind a rock.
It's also possible the company might change its mind at the last moment, like it did with the aborted Surface Mini debut in 2014, and this whole rumor ends up being meaningless.
Helicopters loaded with special operations forces swooped in on a vehicle carrying al-Qaduli, but at the last moment something happened that caused them to decide to fire on the vehicle instead.
However, if they are done in—I'm talking droopy-eyed, nearly falling forward before they jolt awake at the last moment flagging—then do the right thing and make a swift exit.
And Keenan, that doesn't mean that this was not thoroughly discussed with several people from both companies and that it was decided at the last moment for the reasons that I explained.
Its problems did not end there as an anticipated order for A803 superjumbos worth $16 billion failed to materialize at the last moment, forcing it into further talks to finalize a deal.
He wanted to tell the Big Boss how badly he had been treated and that he deserved better, but at the last moment he decided against it, whispering a quick " aber" (fine).
Streep suggested it might work if her character, Louise, pushed Thelma out of the car at the last moment, saving at least the life of the one friend who hadn't committed murder.
For a time it looked like it might clear the goal post, but at the last moment it dipped right behind Thibaut Courtois's hand and into the top corner of the net.
For example, if someone unreliable offers to cover your shift at work (because you do very much need time off this month!), don't be surprised if they bail at the last moment.
In June, Trump tweeted that U.S. forces were "cocked and loaded" before he called off a strike against Iran at the last moment in response to the downing of an American drone.
Journalists were told at the last moment that such questions were also off-limits on the red carpet, where the young actors conspicuously kept their distance from each other before the screening.
As CNN's Maeve Reston and Kate Sullivan report, Iowans are famous for making up their minds at the last moment -- even as late as the cold night when they gather to caucus.
Last year's royal ranks were marked by several unexpected and notable absences, including Princess Charlene, who stayed home at the last moment to care for her then-4-month-old daughter Princess Gabriella.
Even if on a balcony spilling several generations of relations, the moment captured included Francesco's 18-month-old brother Stefano and 5-year-old cousin Sasha crashing the photo at the last moment.
As it turns out, Harris wisely half-assed his challenge at the last moment, and he merely bounced a few feet out of bounds instead of ending up in a full-body cast.
But note the high gloss, like a candy apple's: At the last moment, the meatballs are anointed with a glaze of salty and sweet held in perfect suspension, neither flavor dominating the other.
Some approached the big jumps at full speed, only to pull up at the last moment because snow made it impossible to see or the wind socks on the jumps were completely stiffened.
Drivers sometimes change their minds at the last moment, and too often I've had to stop abruptly or jump off my bike when a driver suddenly decides to turn in front of me.
There was little explanation about the reason for the change, and it's still not entirely clear why The Wing decided to scrap the in-house childcare service in Brooklyn at the last moment.
Competitors — many of whom were in Hawaii for another top big-wave contest that had been scheduled for Wednesday but was canceled at the last moment because of lagging surf — hustled to Northern California.
Taxis also serve as potential getaway vehicles—once, NOE told me, he got snitched out by one taxi driver who called the police only to be whisked away at the last moment by another.
"These deals can be like clasping a handful of sand at the beach, it looks like you've got it in your grasp but at the last moment it slips through your fingers," he added.
The Senate Judiciary Committee was on track to barrel through the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh when, at the last moment, Arizona Senator Jeff Flake upset the applecart...or did he?
In fact, there's one note just before the title Widows hits, which we put in at the last moment just to let people know that there might be the possibility of music appearing somewhere.
Longtime China critics in the United States have pushed the president to hold out against what they see as China's tough negotiating style, including changing the terms of a deal at the last moment.
MICHAEL GOVE, 51 - "Tested in battle" Gove, one of the highest-profile Brexit campaigners during the 2016 referendum, scuppered Johnson's 2016 leadership bid by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself.
Six months earlier, the United States had intervened in the bitter Cuban war of independence that had been dragging on since 1895, plucking its hard-won victory (in Cubans' eyes) at the last moment.
Deadlines can drive dealmaking Lawmakers -- and specifically the top Appropriations members in both chambers -- have wriggled out of impossible negotiations before, generally managing to pull proverbial rabbits out of their hats at the last moment.
It always seems to creep up at the last moment, and unless your mom is Kris Jenner, what she wants is most likely a total mystery (and most likely not an $11,000 Chanel surf board).
Her career began at age 191945, when Miller was nearly struck by a speeding car in New York City before being pulled to safety at the last moment by Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue.
"It wasn't possible to change the wedding date at the last moment, so I curtailed spending," says Dashrath Jagtap, whose daughter got married this week in a small village in the western state of Maharashtra.
TRUMP: We thought that was gone, we thought those lines were going to be gone, so something happened at the last moment where Obamacare got approved, and all of that was thrown out the window.
The first baseman climbed up on the ledge and snared a Keon Broxton foul ball at the last moment, the kind of snare that had Rizzo smiling at the sublimeness of his own fielding artistry.
When Barclaycard pulled out at the last moment in 2015, the event was forced to downscale and ended up in a much smaller venue with a sort of "sexual harassment in the workplace seminar vibe".
"We were looking for something different ... and at the last moment, we saw this place," said Andrea Legaspi, a Spanish law student attracted by the chance to get some kind of feel of prison life.
So at the last moment, with encouragement from her children, Stéphanie offered Baby and Nepal a royal reprieve and a place to live — in her brother's backyard — on a mountaintop above the Principality of Monaco.
As a cooperator, Flynn was slated to testify against Kian at trial, but those plans fell apart at the last moment after a public and heated falling-out between Flynn's new lawyers and the prosecutors.
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) - The British people will harshly judge any prime minister who lets down Gibraltar at the last moment in Britain's negotiations to leave the European Union, the chief minister of "the Rock" has told Reuters.
Outside, just as Niko has left Eve standing alone and distraught, Villanelle approaches her love interest from behind, and gets so close you think they might finally meet again — only to withdraw at the last moment.
The chaos on Wednesday, when Tory MPs were first told that they wouldn't be whipped and then, at the last moment, that they would, sending them scurrying hither and thither, was a moment of high farce.
Related: Hillary Clinton Is Already Talking About November, But Sanders Lives to Fight Another Day "Our strategy and our exponential growth came in at the last moment," the campaign's state director, Dulce Saenz, told VICE News.
But he took it several steps further than most, getting into Twitter fights with the candidate and holding out the promise that he would recruit a candidate at the last moment around whom conservatives could rally.
"Harvest weather has been terrible with repeated rain in the four largest producers France, Germany, Britain and Poland, and we are likely to see crop sizes reduced at the last moment," one German rapeseed trader said.
They broke that promise at the last moment, and a jostling scrimmage of reporters and camera crews was confined to a dais at the back of the hall where it became a handy target for derision.
I could see situations in which the dog brings Daryl perilously close to danger time and again, only for the writers to pull them both out of trouble at the last moment to joyous celebration from viewers.
Even if you're shopping online (and, to be honest, is there any other way to shop?) it's hard not to get emotionally invested in certain items that, inevitably, get pulled from your grasp at the last moment.
Just this week Brit&Co, a digital media brand catering to young women, began laying off a majority of its staff after an M&A deal failed to come together at the last moment, according to Recode.
A producer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Mike DiCenzo, took to Twitter following last night's show, and explained the emotional way it all came together, including how Taylor Swift stepped in at the last moment.
The decision on whether the Kerimov family, or Polyus itself, will sell shares will be taken "at the last moment", he said, adding that the company met investment funds in London last week to discuss its plans.
DJ Khaled was due to headline the last night of Wireless Festival in Finsbury Park, London, yesterday, but a "scheduling conflict," revealed by organizers at the last moment, prevented him from getting out of the swimming pool.
The story ends differently in different versions; in some Iphigenia dies, in some she lives, and in some she is swapped out at the last moment for another deer, which dies in her stead as she survives.
Men and women walk up to each other on the street, stretch their arms out for hugs and their faces forward for kisses, only to jump back at the last moment and bump their feet together instead.
Lucrative corporate accounts are owned by the big carriers, and business travelers avoid the cheaper airlines, often choosing to pay premium prices at the last moment to get seats on the flights that best fit their schedules.
The son of a peasant farmer was something of an accidental president, thrown into the race at the last moment by the disqualification on a technicality of millionaire businessman Khairat al-Shater, by far the group's preferred choice.
In doing so he rejected the rival proposals put forward by Johnson, with whom he teamed up during their Brexit campaign only to pull his support for Johnson's 2016 leadership bid at the last moment and run himself.
" Instead, Schmidt's worried that his life is turning into a rom-com, except Reagan's the heroine of the story, swooping in to steal Cece away at the last moment before her wedding, and he's the "Bridgette Wilson-Sampras.
As far as unanswerable sports questions go, few make for such good fodder as the what-if: the trade that fell through at the last moment, the fluke error that set off a chain reaction of multigenerational futility.
He lost in his short-lived bid to repeal and replace Obamacare, demanding a rushed vote on a much-derided bill, only to back down at the last moment when it was clear he didn't have the votes.
These are the areas where the Obama administration's deadlines-driven strategy failed almost totally to provide Afghan forces, which it helped rushed in at the last moment before withdrawal, with anything like an adequate post-withdrawal mission capability.
A disciplinary procedure, which could eventually end in fines, had already been averted at the last moment in December when Italy cut its original 2.4% deficit target for this year to 2.04%, with the agreement of the Commission.
In its original form, amended only at the last moment, the resolution would have described the "Buraq Wall" as an integral part of al-Aqsa; in other words it would have set aside any Jewish claim to the wall.
"Unless 'Vote Leave' can find more believable messages for those sitting on the fence, the large number making their final decision at the last moment could tip the scales in favor of Remain," Opinium managing director James Endersby said.
"Yesterday we were ready to leave and then at the last moment they said the flight was cancelled without any explanation," the 62-year-old man, who declined to give his last name, said by telephone from his hotel.
Z. Kelsey), with the benefit of hindsight, turned out to be little more than a device to bring Andre (Trai Byers) to a near-death experience, then conveniently provide an appropriate heart donor at the last moment, after Jeff committed suicide.
Four other countries — Belgium, Hungary, Georgia and Montenegro — had only "at the last moment" announced that they too were expelling Russian diplomats over the Skripal affair, and Moscow reserved the right to take retaliatory action against them too, it said.
Earlier this year the heads of the CIA, FBI, and NSA all warned US citizens against using Huawei's products, while AT&T pulled a planned launch for the company's Mate 10 Pro flagship phone at the last moment following political pressure.
Four other countries -- Belgium, Hungary, Georgia and Montenegro -- had only "at the last moment" announced that they too were expelling Russian diplomats over the Skripal affair, and Moscow reserved the right to take retaliatory action against them too, it said.
And, watching the highlights, you can see Verstappen baiting Raikkonen several times as he tries to pass, closing the door at the last moment and forcing the Fin to jerk on his steering wheel in order to avoid a crash.
Take a look at where the independent expenditure arm of the National Republican Congressional Committee is going on the air at the last moment in its bid to protect the G.O.P.'s 23-seat House majority: South Carolina's First District.
The president has always walked away at the last moment from committing to preserving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, but on Friday, FAIR, an anti-immigration group, warned him again that it would be a mistake.
The two countries have also been on the brink of conflict at times, including after Trump said in June that he called off a military strike at the last moment after the U.S. accused Iran of shooting down an American drone.
Not just because a plan to unveil the collection in Hong Kong had to be rethought at the last moment because of the intense demonstrations, but because he was once again opening himself up to the judgment of the shopping world.
In Iraq there is makhlama, a folding together of coarsely minced lamb, onions gone translucent and just starting to sweat, and eggs cracked at the last moment, given a moment to set, then pierced so the yolks spill and mingle.
Lucy, Charlie Brown's nemesis, would succeed over and over again in convincing Charlie Brown to kick a football that she was holding — and, at the last moment, Lucy would always pull the football away leaving Charlie Brown lying on the ground.
Commentary: National security in an 'alt-facts' world Many in Israel feel that for Netanyahu, whose ability to pull himself out of delicate situations at the last moment has earned him the nickname "the magician," the game may be up.
In the Battle Beyond the Wall, Jon and his raiders were saved by Daenerys on her dragon, and in the Battle of the Bastards, they had the Knights of the Vale coming in to save the day at the last moment.
Mursi was elected to power in 2012 in Egypt's first free presidential election, having been thrown into the race at the last moment by the disqualification on a technicality of millionaire businessman Khairat al-Shater, by far the Brotherhood's preferred choice.
We know the big game will be won at the last moment, that the guy will realize he loves the girl and run to stop her from getting on the plane, that the psycho serial killer isn't really dead the first time.
Springsteen and Prince mutually held each other in high regard, in one of Prince's last interviews with The View he spoke on how he admired Springsteen's ability to lead his band on a dime to perform new material at the last moment.
They were prepping for block-walking and figuring out the correct voting location for the hundreds of voters whose location had been switched, at the last moment, in what has become a standard yet subtle mode of voter suppression across the state.
I also knew from talking to fellow Gaza residents who had missed out on scholarship opportunities or were prevented from obtaining necessary medical care that Israel could always bar me from leaving at the last moment without offering any reason at all.
Whether it's FEMA, the Congressional Budget Office or an outside consultant, they should compare the costs of creating and maintaining those caches, with the premium price paid to the private sector to supply those resources and that equipment at the last moment.
He never did, however, and was rescued from embarrassment only by being cast at the last moment as Lorenzo in the 2004 film of "The Merchant of Venice," which starred Al Pacino, a role that altered the arc of his professional life.
He dove off the top of the Cell onto a prone Kevin Owens, who was draped unconscious across a table, only for Owens to be pulled away at the last moment by his kayfabe estranged (and real life best) friend Sami Zayn.
WHILE FILMING "THE NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET," the director Wes Craven felt that Freddy Kruger's original costume of just fingernail extensions and a striped sweater wasn't scary enough, so he decided to permanently melt Robert Englund's face at the last moment for effect.
Widely considered one of the greatest riders in the history of equestrian sports, Steinkraus made all six United States Olympic teams from 1952 through 1972, missing only the 1964 Games in Tokyo when his horse pulled up lame at the last moment.
Bury's tangled web of finances—which included a complicated mortgage on the club's ground and a scheme by a former chairman that involved selling the club's car-parking spaces for £10,000 ($12,200) each—caused a potential buyer to balk at the last moment.
"I believe that at the last moment we will come to an agreement, like in the game of basketball," Iglesias said, an apparent reference to a World Cup semi-final on Friday when Spain came from behind to beat Australia in double overtime.
FBI officials had been expected to brief a group of House lawmakers on counterintelligence issues related to Iran on Wednesday in a separate closed-door session but those plans also changed at the last moment, according to two sources familiar with the planning.
The State Department also postponed Wednesday's classified hearing on the administration's Iran strategy at the last moment as criticism continues to mount from Capitol Hill on the Trump administration's legal rationale for its strike against Iran's top military commander earlier this month.
Mr. Trump, who likes to leave his options open and make his decisions at the last moment, was coy about whether he would go through with his threat to tear up the Iran agreement by the deadline he set for next month.
The Jerusalem city planning committee, which was reported to be acting at the behest of the national government, canceled at the last moment a scheduled vote on permits for 618 new housing units in the predominantly Palestinian eastern section of the city.
But a budget bill pushed through by Yatsenyuk at five in the morning was stuffed at the last moment with odd items, such as nearly a million dollars for a music festival, or inflated sums for toilet paper at a government ministry.
In June, Trump said after Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. drone that the United States had readied a series of strikes against the country, but he called the action off at the last moment because it would cause too many casualties.
"Really the euro should have gained yesterday but this announcement of a Brainard speech right at the last moment before the blackout period for the Fed has made people nervous," said Richard Benson, co-head of portfolio management at currency fund Millennium Global in London.
Gove, who scuppered the 2016 leadership bid of former foreign minister Boris Johnson by withdrawing his support at the last moment to run himself, said he would seek a further delay to Brexit if efforts to renegotiate the deal were close to a breakthrough.
The meeting is not canceled, but the North Koreans shocked Washington and Seoul when they announced at the last moment that talks with South Korea, scheduled for Wednesday, were "indefinitely" postponed because of long-planned military exercises between the United States and South Korea.
But on the first day of the Games, the list of who would represent Russia in Rio was not necessarily final, as a new court ruling made it possible for seven more Russian athletes to be added to competition schedules at the last moment.
But if you get over to the right and wait your turn in a crowded highway exit lane, rather than cutting in at the last moment, that teaches me that there's a sense of fairness and equality, and that people feel embedded in the group.
Not simply because he had appeared, at the last moment, to stop a header from Roberto Firmino that would have drawn Liverpool even, but because he had produced a performance of precision and poise, control and concentration, to keep the visitors' forward line at bay.
With two outs, Carlos Santana — who had lined a solo homer off starter Jordan Montgomery in the second inning — worked the count full and lined a fastball down the right-field line that at the last moment sliced just wide of the foul pole.
She did disclose that the Trump administration refused to verify the tax return until hours before airtime Tuesday and that her team had taped an entirely different show, in case the White House proved the document to be a forgery at the last moment.
Ms Powell-Chandler was dropped into this unpromising constituency at the last moment: she didn't know the place well, having grown up as a country girl in neighbouring Worcestershire, and had to interrupt campaigning to get married ("Weddings are too big a sunk cost to cancel").
You may not really know until the credits roll, because this man is famous for shocking his audiences right at the last moment: He produced Wayward Pines on FOX, itself a trippy blend of Twin Peaks and Lost with a killer twist ending to season 1.
The first thing anyone says about Spider-Man is that it makes you feel like Spider-Man, which is to say it captures the vertiginous thrill of leaping off a tall building, only to catch yourself at the last moment with a web slung from the wrist.
We've explored many others over the years: failure to contact hard-to-reach voters, question order effects, problematic interviewers or bad interviewing devices, failure to determine who is really going to vote and who isn't, undecideds deciding, "decided" voters switching at the last moment, and many others.
Ohio State 62, Michigan 39 COLUMBUS, Ohio — There are no more original "Peanuts" comic strips, but every autumn there is a new version of the old chestnut where Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown to kick, only to pull it away at the last moment.
"New Hampshire should have been won last time, except we had a lot of people come in at the last moment, which was a rather strange situation -- thousands and thousands of people coming in from locations unknown, but I knew where their location was," he told reporters.
Trump said he decided in June to pull back a military strike against Iran at the last moment because it would have killed many civilians and was not proportionate to avenge the downing of a US drone over the Gulf of Oman by the Islamic Republic.
Kimmitt, who has decades of experience in both the government and private sector, said in a "Squawk Box " interview that it appears Trump tends to make quick decisions "at the last moment," but said there is a small chance a breakthrough deal is worked out during the meeting.
At the last moment, Bostian activated the emergency brake, but it was too late: The 98-ton locomotive and the seven cars and the 313 terrified passengers were now traveling on their own momentum, free from the rails, lurching rightward into the earth and forward into the surrounding darkness.
On Eid al-Adha, Syria's children laugh again The ceasefire's start coincides with the beginning of Eid al-Adha -- a holiday that commemorates when Ibrahim (Abraham in the Old Testament) prepares to sacrifice his son as God commanded, but God intervenes and stops him at the last moment.
It's a space that Microsoft's competitors in both software (Android) and hardware (Lenovo and Asus) have started to flirt with, and it only makes sense that Microsoft might wow us with a tease for a future it's kept meaning to deliver and then scuttling at the last moment.
She resolved that ultimate question at the last moment, arriving at the final rehearsal with new lyrics for the narrator character of Hermes, which explain that if we continue to sing Orpheus's song, an unfinished ode that emphasizes the essential humanity within us all, the world might still change.
The coach's comments come a day after White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders blamed the Eagles organization for the whole debacle — accusing the NFL organization for acting with bad faith in attempting to reschedule the ceremony at the last moment, and pulling a "political stunt" intended to embarrass the President.
Al Horford and Jeff Teague are, of course, both aware that they were dangled in trade rumors—or, in marriage terms, that they were in the preliminary stages of divorce proceedings—but, at the last moment, everyone involved realized the freezing-cold reality of trying to punch through this life alone.
She told Yahoo News last year that a meeting had been scheduled between Mr. Trump and Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of the Russian central bank and an ally of President Vladimir V. Putin, before the event last year, but that the White House had canceled at the last moment.
They are escaping hate and persecution Many of the migrants said they joined the caravan at the last moment, having seen a message on social media or local news story in Honduras that inspired them to leave behind a homeland where they had long ago given up on having a future.
"The fact that this announcement comes just weeks before Deckers' 2017 contested Annual Meeting further underscores the clear contempt the incumbent directors have towards the corporate governance process – once again doing as little as possible, at the slowest pace possible, and at the last moment possible," Marcato said in a statement.
But history shows that exhibition diplomacy can be fraught; in 2012 a show at the British Museum (BM) about the haj almost fell apart when the Turkish government refused at the last moment to allow loans from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, forcing the BM to scrabble around elsewhere to fill the gaps.
Since "the people" have numbers on their side, their failure to get everything they want can be explained only by the cunning of the elites, who fix everything behind the scenes, or the machinations of traitors who claim to be on the side of the people but sell out at the last moment.
His rejection of the figure seemed to confirm the concerns of Democratic leaders who had questioned whether they could trust senior White House officials to broker any compromise that could then be rejected by a president who has often shifted his position at the last moment, especially when it comes to immigration.
After all, Obama and his allies were prepared to launch airstrikes after Assad's 2013 sarin gas attack on Ghouta, only to back down at the last moment after Russia brokered a deal for Assad to give up most of his chemical weapons stockpiles (although Monday's attack shows he obviously didn't give all of them away).
"If I get through, which I am sure I will actually, to the final two against Mr Johnson, this is what I will say to him: 'Mr Johnson, whatever you do, dont pull out'," said environment minister Michael Gove, who scuppered Johnsons 2016 leadership bid by pulling his support at the last moment to run himself.
Not only has Bridgegate enveloped him once again, his last week has been eerily reminiscent of July, when it looked like he was first in line to be Donald Trump's pick for vice president—only to have that role snatched away from him at the last moment, thanks to Paul Manafort lying about a broken plane.
AMONG campaigners for human rights and liberty of conscience, there was a moment of grim satisfaction as America, at the last moment and against some expectations, acknowledged what many see as self-evident: Islamic State (IS) (also known by its Arabic acronym, Daesh) is perpetrating genocide against the religious minorities of Iraq, including the region's ancient Christian communities.
The larger-than-planned-for force (three brigades) needed for the south had to be cobbled together at the last moment; there was only patchy understanding of the place they would be going to and little time to analyse the risks; and Basra was a long way from Baghdad, where all the post-invasion decisions would be made.
In the third inning, it was good enough to strike out Seager twice: first by starting at his hip and then darting over to the inside corner at the last moment (this strike went uncalled, but it was one), then by starting at the bottom of the zone and skidding toward the dirt as Seager whiffed.
The verdict in Ms. Hijazi's case was originally scheduled to be heard on March 23, but it was postponed at the last moment until last Sunday, raising the possibility that Mr. Sisi might have accepted the warm White House embrace in exchange for a prisoner who was about to be freed by the court system anyway.
"If I get through, which I am sure I will actually, to the final two against Mr Johnson, this is what I will say to him: 'Mr Johnson, whatever you do, don't pull out'," said environment minister Michael Gove, who scuppered Johnson's 2016 leadership bid by pulling his support at the last moment to run himself.
A similar round of talks, also involving Choe, had been due to take place in the United States in March, but the North Korean delegation was denied U.S. visas at the last moment after the killing of the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un at the international airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, an assassination U.S. officials blamed squarely on Pyongyang.
Eschewing at the last moment the traditional walk across the South Lawn to Marine One, the presidential helicopter that typically ferries them to their plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Trump called once again for a separate motorcade, arriving on her own and boarding Air Force One ahead of her husband and out of sight of the press.
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President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE canceled his off-the-record meeting with The New York Times, scheduled for Tuesday, claiming the paper made a rule-change at the last moment.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers were placed on duty in hopes of avoiding a replay of the violence that unfolded this month in Charlottesville, Va. But at the last moment, both events seemed uncertain — a "No to Marxism in America" rally in Berkeley was denied a permit by the city and a "Freedom Rally" in San Francisco was canceled by its organizer, who cited fears of violence.
Democrats in the House and Senate urged restraint from the Trump administration after reports late Thursday indicated that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE had approved a military strike on Iranian forces before calling it off at the last moment. Sen.
The visit — initially expected to be a short meet-and-greet but turned at the last moment into a formal lunch — was a chance for the two men to also discuss Yemen, where a civil war has pitted Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels against a Saudi-led coalition of mostly Sunni Arab countries with American support, and where the United States is stepping up a campaign against Al Qaeda.
"It will be a travesty of justice if, having moved so far in such a short time, the United Nations finds itself at the last moment unable to accept the principle of accountability, the avoidance of which has motivated the long years of total denial, and if it is similarly unable to embrace the principle of respect for the rights of victims to compensation as opposed to charitable payments," he wrote to Mr. Eliasson on Oct. 5.
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At times, City was unplayable: Riyad Mahrez, dancing between Ben Chilwell and Caglar Soyuncu, offering both a bite at the ball, only to slip it away at the last moment, and teeing up Gabriel Jesus for a chance he missed; Kevin de Bruyne, the most complete attacking player in the Premier League, bursting past Soyuncu, leaving him sprawled on the ground, and providing the perfect cross — the sort of cross they might teach at school — so that Jesus could make amends.

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