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"last-gasp" Definitions
  1. done or achieved at the last possible moment
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It has started to look more like a last gasp.
They are, in effect, the last gasp of white hegemony.
But Europe is a long way off from its last gasp.
A last gasp of the way life was in the past.
That really felt like the last gasp of the music industry.
And it may represent the last gasp of a passing era.
Trump's maniacal obsession with undoing of Obama's legacy- - the last gasp.
His refusal to denounce white supremacists in Charlottesville -- the last gasp.
This last-gasp effort to derail the nomination will fall flat.
It's a last gasp, before you suck up the broth within.
"Suburbicon" feels like a last gasp of some kind of middle.
A last-gasp shot from the Volunteers' Jordan Bone bounced away.
Last-gasp playoff dashes are hard to win on weary legs.
Holland said on Wednesday the job cuts were a "last-gasp measure".
But it could also be the last gasp for the pod boom.
The state claimed to meet every need from first to last gasp.
But it seems clear now that that effort was a last gasp.
Which brings us to 2016 and what may be TNA's last gasp.
One last gasp for Mexico, but Allison is up to the task.
The last gasp of net neutrality was heard around the world on Dec.
The internet is offering one last gasp in its fight for net neutrality.
Never. Enough to wring out one last gasp of enjoyment from the madhouse?
We're in the last gasp of summer (here are some recipes for that).
His demonization of Black Lives Matter and the Women's March -- the last gasp.
The color is the gift of achiote, like a last gasp of sunset.
Then we caught the last gasp of great New York gay night life.
So it&aposs the last gasp in many ways of that old political establishment.
Many in Germany see the plans as a last-gasp effort to remain independent.
The dragging incident appears not to have been its apex but its last gasp.
The term "fake news" and the attacks on the free press -- the last gasp.
The Republicans' last-gasp effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act hit major obstacles.
During a desperate last-gasp attempt at survival in the 2016 Republican primary, Sen.
The opposition Pheu Thai party gathered separately in Bangkok before sunset for last-gasp campaigning.
"This is the last gasp of the white uneducated," the 70-year-old comedian adds.
It seems like the last gasp of a tired meme, but look a little closer.
"After the initial drawdown, the S&P 500 can have a meaningful last gasp rally."
In a dissent in May, Justice Clarence Thomas said it was "on its last gasp."
Their proposal was the last gasp of Republican efforts to undo the Affordable Care Act.
"It's that last gasp of beauty before death," said one man seeking to preserve them.
As a survivor of the bloody crackdown in Beijing, he had witnessed the party's last gasp.
This would push their chips into the middle for the last gasp of the Romo Era.
These last-gasp changes do not necessarily represent the most important alterations to the original deal.
Moore had the good luck to play Bond during the last gasp of the Cold War.
Maybe it's a last gasp for permanence and tactility, as all of our media becomes ephemeral.
The labor law is his last-gasp attempt to do so before national elections next April.
After a decade in the weeds, that sound has been having a comeback — a last gasp?
The last-gasp bid to secure a pardon for Snowden is seen as unlikely to succeed.
At the last gasp, a long-awaited WX [Washington] dispatch: Conflict in the South China Sea.
It didn't feel like the last gasp of people partying or anything; it was almost sacred.
Many on the left think Trump's win was an aberration -- the last gasp of angry white voters.
It's the climax of the film, one last gasp at a truce that they know can't happen.
But that last-gasp offer has failed to break the impasse, leading to talk of an election.
Mark Teixeira answered with a last-gasp, game-winning grand slam on Wednesday, but Thursday brought finality.
Rising for a last gasp, the fans implored Manning for one of his patented fourth-quarter comebacks.
Brady had one last gasp left, but the Giants thwarted two long, desperation passes to Randy Moss.
The Guardian said: "Coughing and spluttering - May's British dream turns into nightmare", while the i said: "Last gasp".
Now this was probably the last gasp for the #NeverTrump movement, but still, it's not a good look.
"Any reader of this court's opinions should think that the doctrine is on its last gasp," he wrote.
Sanders needs a win in California to bring a last gasp of momentum and success to his candidacy.
Last gasp Democrats are still pushing the idea that witnesses can be moved quickly through the trial. Rep.
It's a last gasp, and unlikely to work, as Houser and Bordoff wrote in a detailed recent analysis.
One would probably have to give this round to the military, but I believe this is their last gasp.
Made by one of the oldest car makers in history, this particular model was a last gasp for relevancy.
Is that the last gasp of that or is it ... because nothing's getting done, like, nothing is getting passed.
After winning the penultimate sprint, Viviani knew gold was his, barring a last-gasp attack by Cavendish or Hansen.
In the face of stupidity and the last gasp of white supremacy, the name of the game is obstruction.
Allen was fouled on a drive and missed two free throws with five seconds remaining in Arizona's last gasp.
Instead, we did it as a last gasp of keeping this economic recovery going by making it completely deficit based.
The iridescence of its gold veneer is a last gasp for a burial style three thousand years in the making.
She was tired and anxious and it was easy to miss, particularly in the evening blast of last-gasp sunlight.
A two-run shot by Rizzo in the ninth and a last-gasp run by Cleveland closed out the contest.
The Good Friday Agreement wasn't the last gasp of Republicanism; more like the deep rasping of a wounded beast recuperating.
Will it flood the nation's prisons with fresh bodies, or are we seeing the last gasp of a failed policy?
This was supposed to be Sheldon Silver's final act, a last-gasp gambit to avoid surrendering to prison on Oct.
It was a last-gasp effort by the vice president's forces to save him from defeat, critics in Monrovia said.
Undeterred, I had one more idea for where to look for the trophy, although I considered it a last gasp.
"It's like the last gasp of broadcasting in the top Emmy race," said veteran awards watcher Tom O'Neil, founder of goldderby.com.
If Auer deference is truly at its "last gasp," to quote Justice Thomas, the Havis case could be its dying breath.
Minnesota's last-gasp drive was snuffed out when Croft was sacked on fourth-and-73 from the Minnesota 20-yard line.
"Citizen Kane" (1941) reveals a crucial detail in the last minute; whodunnits keep audiences guessing until a last gasp-inducing denouement .
"This overreaching, last-gasp Obama administration regulation goes far beyond what the law permits," Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine (R) said.
A last-gasp goal by Giorgos Tzavelas allowed host Greece to escape with a 1-1 draw against Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Still, the $150 dongle ($150!!!) for a phone that reportedly sold fewer than 90,000 units may not be Essential's last gasp.
Sanders made a tactical mistake in dismissing Biden's last-minute Dallas endorsements as the last gasp of a failing Washington establishment.
But it's still got the luscious creamy factor, which in this last gasp of winter, may be exactly what you need.
Passengers who have barely had time for a last gasp of air before submerging are trapped, unable to see or breathe.
His mouth opens involuntarily—some delayed response of the nervous system, no doubt, but I take it as a last gasp.
The US and Turkey are both members of NATO, but their alliance is in tatters -- indeed, close to its last gasp.
George Saunders, the author of Lincoln in the Bardo, sees Trump-Penceism as this last gasp of the bad old days.
But the unusually competitive election that brought him to power may have been less an affirmation of democracy than its last gasp.
The setback on Monday night triggered a last-gasp effort by the president and top aides to keep the legislation from dying.
The Warriors' last gasp was a open 3-pointer at the top of the key by Draymond Green that drew back iron.
Their time is rapidly fading, and these utterly ridiculous claims attempting to diminish Dr. Carson's legacy are just about their last gasp.
In the dying minutes of that game, the U.S. down 2-1, there was no last-gasp goal to save the day.
Butter beans, cannellini beans or borlotti (cranberry) beans, sold in their beautiful pods, represent the last-gasp transition into the new season.
I hoard pits until the last gasp of the season, and then I grab my hammer and head outside to the concrete.
Through the weekend, French BATT Coop nonprofit will present 'Till the Last Gasp', A Graphzine History 222-225,  which sounds absolutely spectacular.
"We are fighting back," Ms. Weisz said, insisting that Orange County's resistance was not the last gasp of a withering political movement.
Now, an Italian utility is in charge of what may be Europe's last-gasp bid to remain a player in the sector.
But a last-gasp attempt to approve the deal on Martin Luther King's Birthday — Mr. Christie's last full day as governor — failed.
She planned to hit the rim for the second free throw, with the hopes of a rebound and a last-gasp shot.
The Soviet Union won the 1972 Olympic match with a last gasp basket after a controversial decision to replay the last three seconds.
It was hardly such smooth sailing for the Belgians, who suffered a huge scare in their last-gasp 3-2 win over Japan.
For the CGT this was a mobilising moment, a sort of last gasp for a movement nostalgic for glorious victories of the past.
Cassidy and Graham were the main authors of a last-gasp effort to repeal ObamaCare in the fall, just ahead of the Sept.
While some of Trump opponents have pushed the "conscience clause" as a last gasp to prevent him from becoming the party's official nominee.
I felt more constricted there, but you realize that the free-floating socialization is the last gasp of that kind of democratic [experience].
Everybody Loves Raymond isn't just the last gasp of a dying TV genre or a bitter swan song for the traditional family sitcom.
What are the kinds of things that seem promising as fail-safes to make sure that some last gasp of humanity keeps going?
The U.K. government's minister responsible for Brexit is meeting the European Union's chief negotiator in Brussels to continue last gasp talks this morning.
To many people, the red hat symbolizes that desperation, the last gasp of a white America of the past, not of the future.
Further announcements are expected as soon as this weekend as Deutsche Bank makes a last-gasp bid to reverse a decade of decline.
It would be unfortunate if the Canada-European Union agreement turned out to be the last gasp of an era of expanding trade.
Critics of Trump's fiscal approach argue the tax cut was the last gasp of the baby boom attempting to direct money to itself.
Trump, who was elected as a Republican, will make what the theory describes as "disjunctive" politics: the last gasp of the incumbent era.
This isn't the first time the Republican candidates have attempted to make a last-gasp effort at stopping the reality-show business mogul.
The report, entitled "Last Gasp: The coal companies making Europe sick", was co-authored by Greenpeace, the Sandbag climate think-tank and other environmentalists.
Today, what we're experiencing here in North Carolina is a last-gasp, reactionary attempt to maintain a status quo that rotted away decades ago.
On the other hand, the case may yet turn out to be a last gasp for the application of blasphemy laws in western Europe.
Iceland also qualified in second after a last-gasp goal in their 2-1 win over Austria dramatically changed the outcome of the group.
The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA over the weekend, following more than a year of tense trilateral negotiations.
Despite a last gasp from Columbus in the second period Thursday, the Penguins dispatched the Blue Jackets, whose only win came in Game 4.
One thing he hasn't lost is the shine—the ability to peer into the minds of others, including frightened souls at their last gasp.
Oil market sentiment was lifted by Sunday's last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
"It was the last gasp of conservative Scotland," said David Torrance, an author and journalist, who is a respected political commentator and also gay.
That's what 2017 represents for me: a last gasp by Trump and the bigoted, sexist, nationalist and greedy forces that propelled him to power.
Tatum missed a tying 3-point attempt with 2.6 seconds left, and Leonard blocked Walker's last-gasp 21-point attempt just before time expired.
She scored the winner by outjumping Australia's star forward, Sam Kerr, for a cross at the back post off a last-gasp corner kick.
We all know September is back-to-school time, but this late-January repeat after the last gasp of winter holidays needs a name.
At the time, it looked like the last gasp of what had been months of botched efforts by House Democrats to nail the President.
But from late November until the last gasp at the end of December, we all are bombarded with richness and excess at every turn.
U.S. authorities see Germany's largest bank as "troubled," and its political establishment is on its last gasp after subjecting Europe to stagnation and uncontrolled immigration.
New Jersey's last gasp was a second goal by Palmieri (five goals in three games) with 3:31 left, but Crosby scored an empty-netter.
ThinkProgress predicted that this was the last gasp of a dead-ender, and that Santorum's failed campaign marked the end of the war on pornography.
It was odd and false, perhaps a recognition that the last gasp of the cowboy gimmick in wrestling had no real room left for reinvention.
The relative moderation of the Roberts Court is likely the last gasp of the previous partisan order rather than a signal that it will continue.
Serbia had earlier upset second-ranked Australia 73-71 while Anna Cruz hit a last gasp buzzer beater to lift Spain over Turkey 64-62.
With the offer's March 11 deadline looming and a two-thirds majority required, Schelling's move appeared to be a last-gasp attempt to sway creditors.
Donald Trump's victory might be the last gasp of white supremacy, or it might be a renewal of the rot that has always plagued America.
Parents who once provided for their children are resorting to last-gasp measures: We have seen women at the border selling their hair for cash.
And beneath that is another, more universal question: Is this the twilight of idols, the last gasp of Great White Men dominating art and life?
It would be the last gasp of a dying regime, one determined to kill as many of its enemies as possible before the end came.
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She has been rehabilitating ever since, and made it to Washington to protest the Republican tax bill in a furious last gasp before voting began.
Convinced that Irons has been victimized by a racist justice system, she has given money and time toward a last-gasp bid for his release.
Texas moved to the West Virginia 27-yard line on a last-gasp drive but Buechele's pass in the end zone was incomplete as time expired.
Aleshin, however, pushed his way back in with about 30 minutes to go only to get knocked out again to set up the last-gasp drama.
It began as a last gasp of colonialism, a plot by Britain and France, working with Israel, to reclaim the Suez Canal, recently nationalized by Egypt.
ISPs are engaged in a last gasp effort to scuttle California's looming net neutrality law, including a zero hour request for employees to lend a hand.
The final result was far more emphatic than it may have appeared in the last-gasp votes that played into the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Trump "may be the last gasp of a dying policy regime of Reagan conservatism that started to end with the election of Obama," according to Enos.
In one last gasp, Nevada had the ball on the Ohio 26 on the following possession but Strong tossed four straight incompletions to end the threat.
One day, about 4 billion or 5 billion years from now, the sun will burn through its last gasp of hydrogen and start burning helium instead.
And underneath my funny little anecdote about communism's last gasp was a great story, and a real one, about the resilience of hostility to the American project.
An election some feared would be the last gasp for Turkish democracy has instead emboldened the opposition and stoked belief that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is vulnerable.
The British prime minister on Thursday struck a last-gasp agreement to leave the European Union, hours before the start of a crucial summit of European leaders.
Iowa had one last gasp when the Hawkeyes sliced the lead to 91-89 on Jok's free throws with a little more than three minutes to go.
"This is their last gasp from trying to prevent him from being confirmed," Cornyn told CBS News's "Face the Nation," about Democratic threats to filibuster Gorsuch's nomination.
House Republicans' last-gasp probes Democrats may have won control of the House, but Republicans still have about six weeks before they officially turn over the gavel.
The beauty intrinsic to these maps is the byproduct of an entirely different mode of production, the last gasp of an antiquated way of representing the world.
This is the story of Election Day in 213, from the last gasp campaign events, to the heady (for Clinton) early hours and glorious (for Trump) evening.
They're the last gasp of Generation X's dominance over pro wrestling, from The Rock, Steve Austin, and Triple H down to John Cena, Randy Orton, and Edge.
From my perspective as a delegate from Michigan, the convention hall appears well-organized and on message, aside from a minor last gasp from the Never Trumpers.
And one day, about 4 billion or 5 billion years from now, the sun will burn through its last gasp of hydrogen and start burning helium instead.
Giacinti, the forward thrown on for a defender, wins a last-gasp corner, and they loft a ball toward Bonansea at the back post — and she scores!
Mr. Michel made an impassioned, last-gasp speech to Parliament and asked his left-wing opponents to forge a new alliance that would keep him in office.
In a call with business leaders in which he urged them to build ventilators, he is said to have joked the project be codenamed "Operation Last Gasp".
The 1920s were the last gasp for the firm, under the blingier designer Dagobert Peche, whose mirrors and cruets were as florid as his predecessors' were straitlaced.
The Patriots' last gasp on Saturday began when a Titans punt was downed inside the New England 1-yard line with 15 seconds left in the game.
It was a last-gasp rescue effort: The British government had assumed control of the company in a 1975 bailout, and the company was almost bankrupt again.
One of them, in a wee tartan skirt, strikes cricked and awkward poses, then gets it in the neck, mouthing the word "fashion" at the last gasp.
York later missed a pair and guard George King gave the Buffaloes a last gasp with a 893-pointer with two seconds left to make it 80-78.
"My hope is that Baca's conviction was the last gasp of the old guard," says Sharon Dolovich, a prison-law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Margin debt had surged by $603 billion in January to a new record of $665.7 billion, the last gasp of the phenomenal Trump rally that ended January 26.
However, Ramaphosa now must deal with the Zuma faction's last-gasp dose of venom, injected into the body politic at the 2017 party conference that ended Zuma's reign.
This feels like a black swan event to me, an unlikely concatenation of circumstances that offers a last gasp to forces in American life that are inexorably fading.
The architect of the candidate's last-gasp attempt to bring the country down with him is Steve Bannon, the former head of a fabulist, far-right website — Breitbart.
The 21942s were the last gasp for the firm, under the blingier designer Dagobert Peche, whose mirrors and cruets were as florid as his predecessors' were strait-laced.
Toni Kroos's curving, precision-guided free kick gave Germany a last-gasp 2-1 victory over Sweden and new hope in round-robin play at the World Cup.
A short distance beyond the toe of Italy's boot, Europe is making what may be its last-gasp bid to remain a player in the global solar sector.
The ASTP was the last gasp of the Nixon-era attempt to establish détente between the West and the Soviet Union before the Cold War became chilly again.
Broader global markets rallied on Thursday, boosted by both the likely UK election result and reports a last-gasp trade deal had averted new U.S. tariffs on China.
In another era — ancient Rome, perhaps, or 18th-century France — such profligacy might have been interpreted as the last gasp of a blinkered privileged class before the revolution.
Osweiler added an errant pass in the fourth that Chargers safety Dwight Lowery corralled to stall any legitimate hopes for a last-gasp rally by the Texans (22004-216).
But as the end neared in March, he launched a last-gasp verbal assault on everything from the billionaire businessman's hiring practices to, yup, the size of his hands.
Rather, he was summoned to Washington as the last gasp of a Republican-led House Judiciary Committee hellbent on performing its own preoccupation with perceived political bias against conservatives.
Investors continue to closely watch global trade developments, after the U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to revamp NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico.
Then Margaret Thatcher arrived, and with her, [Mark] Leonard said, 'there was a last gasp of this old identity — an ethnic, exclusively white and backward-looking version of Englishness.
" The New Republic's longtime literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, a professional lowerer of the boom, said it was "the worst, last gasp of Reaganite, grasping, materialistic, narcissistic, banal self-absorption.
Its finale, "Alone," gets the gist of Andrew's last gasp right: On July 23, 1997, eight days after killing Versace, Cunanan put a gun in his mouth and fired.
Naturally, there's no context for any of it; a touchdown in a fourth-quarter blowout nets the same reaction as a last-gasp drive to win the Super Bowl.
Washington State's last-gasp effort ended when Keisean Lucier-South delivered a blind-side hit on Gordon to force the Cougars' fourth second-half fumble inside the final minute.
An error by the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris handed Sweden's Ola Toivonen a last-gasp goal to secure a 2-1 win in their World Cup qualifier in Stockholm.
The world champion tried to dive down the outside of the Red Bull at the final chicane in a last-gasp move near the end of the penultimate lap.
The Pittsburgh Pirates' recent eight-game losing streak severely hurt their chances to stay afloat in the National League wild-card race, but the club might have one last gasp.
Against Spain, Portugal had only 39 percent of the ball yet managed a 3-3 draw thanks to a Ronaldo hat-trick which included a brilliant last-gasp free kick.
Patty Mills and Rudy Gay missed 210-pointers on San Antonio's last-gasp possession, and Davis finished off the Spurs with two more free throws with 3.4 seconds to play.
Lacy Clay, a Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, called the interview so far a waste of time, saying it amounted to the "last gasp" of the Republican majority.
The last gasp of the defense team's attacks landed with one final accusation in front of the jury: that Gates had cheated on his wife several times over the years.
The last-gasp goal secured Iceland second place in Group F, level on five points with Hungary, who drew 3-103 with Portugal in an action-packed encounter in Lyon.
For the last few years, Sunderland has flirted with relegation almost habitually, firing and hiring managers while locked into an apparently unbreakable cycle of despair followed by last-gasp rescue.
Then last year, he stepped it up again, heading the points table until the championship was famously snatched from his grasp at the last gasp... and on a tie-break.
Last season, a clash between Newcastle and Sunderland in mid-March was billed as a last-gasp, must-win match, before the two sides played out a 1-1 draw.
The rules were issued last year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a last gasp of consumer financial protection before President Trump appointed Mick Mulvaney as its new chief.
Martens' last-gasp penalty earned them a 2-1 victory and a ticket to the quarter-finals for the first time where they will play Italy in Valenciennes on Saturday.
In Vienna in the early 19003s, a last gasp of artisanal furniture and homewares emerged from a new kind of workshop, in which artists and craftsmen worked side by side.
There is surely no better way to commemorate two decades of Wenger than with a desperate, last-gasp 1-0 win over a no-nonsense team from post-industrial Lancashire.
It looked like a last gasp of the old system when, in 2013, the transitional authorities passed a rule allowing fines or prison terms for journalists who criticize the government.
The pitched battle over impeachment is the last-gasp struggle of a generation that has dominated American politics, media and culture for more than half a century — the baby boomers.
Like the Dowell version, which had much-contested designs by Yolanda Sonnabend, it is set in the 1890s, but Mr. Scarlett's production suggests a last gasp of European regal splendor.
The Book of Weirdo: A Retrospective of R. Crumb's Legendary Humor Comics Anthology by Jon B. Cooke (Last Gasp, May 2019) is available from Amazon and other booksellers for $28. 
He points to the Ronald Reagan's now-iconic 1984 re-election commercial, "Morning in America," as the the last gasp of that kind earnest use of Americana to sell a narrative.
For a company that emerged from bankruptcy in 210.65 and had a market capitalization of around $251 million on Monday, it was a last gasp at being relevant — and it worked.
Woods attempted to leap into the embrace of his teammates after the New South Wales Blues scored a last gasp try to win the third State of Origin match in Sydney.
Tuesday's roll call, in which Clinton officially became Democrats' nominee, was the last gasp of the Sanders presidential campaign, although he and his supporters have said their revolution will go on.
This racial violence, even as it worsens, is the last gasp of the Old White America, going down with a fight by desperately embracing a reality-TV host peddling past greatness.
KABUL (Reuters) - Heavy gunfire rang out in celebration in Kabul after Afghanistan's cricket team secured a last-gasp victory over Zimbabwe on Wednesday to win a one-day series in Sharjah.
In a last-gasp effort, some are even deploying Anslinger's patented moral-panic strategy—sensationalizing gruesome homicides as evidence that cannabis really does create psychotic murderers out of unsuspecting weed smokers.
But the trade for Chris Paul after his rookie year reoriented the team towards contention, and Griffin's viral reaction to the deal proved to be the last gasp of its naïveté.
Having apparently rescued their tournament with a last-gasp winner against Sweden in their second match, Loew was convinced they would go on to beat the winless South Koreans and qualify.
HB 2 has been characterized as borderline unenforceable by North Carolina police, a last gasp of "prejudice and bigotry" by Bruce Springsteen, and "fucking stupid" by most people who read it.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Barely pausing for breath in a last-gasp election-day pitch for votes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed potential backers in live video election feeds on social media.
" Calling the "jolly clown" a "historical anomaly," Sadie Stein writes, "We are clearly witnessing the last gasp of the clown as a phenomenon, as opposed to the clown as a signifier.
After a foul and a steal in a last-gasp scramble, Arcidiacono had a chance to win the game with a shot at the buzzer, but it was off the rim short.
The last-gasp Republican drive to tear down President Barack Obama's health care law essentially died Monday as Collins joined a small but decisive cluster of GOP senators in opposing the push.
But events such as this are revealing all the same, about both the priorities of the campaign—in this case, its last-gasp struggle to win back women voters—and its semiotics.
RENNES, France (Reuters) - The Netherlands reached the women's World Cup quarter-finals for the first time when Lieke Martens' last-gasp penalty earned them a 2-1 victory against Japan on Tuesday.
For doubters thinking the rally is just a last gasp of the decadelong bull market, analysts who study charts to make buying and selling decisions believe there is more room to run.
It was the last gasp of the 250s, a time of Champagne, garish colors and bubbly disco dance-floor anthems, and the last time many people in Japan felt rich and ascendant.
Julia Azari of Marquette University makes a compelling case in Vox that Trump is more likely to represent the last gasp of a dying regime, much as Jimmy Carter did before him.
Devin Nunes called the hearing "the last gasp of the Russia collusion theory" and like his colleagues on the Judiciary Committee, criticized the Steele dossier and called claims of collusion "a hoax."
Jazz Fest meal bookings mark the "last gasp" for a local industry whose big-money season lasts roughly from the Saints first kickoff through Mardi Gras and into the festival-laden spring.
But Changsha was at the center of Japan's last-gasp offensive to defeat Chinese forces in World War II. Mr. Cai and his family joined the crowds streaming out of the city.
Chris Boswell made a 46-yard field goal with 42 seconds left and Pittsburgh's defense overcame a sloppy night to stop one Baltimore's last-gasp drive in the Steelers' victory Sunday night.
Nor is it likely to be the last gasp in the suffering of many of the women who accused him of abuse (accounts estimate the number to be more than several dozen).
Unfolding during the final years in the life of the actress Gloria Grahame (who died in 1981), the movie recounts her unlikely last-gasp love affair with Mr. Turner, an English actor.
VALENCIENNES, France (Reuters) - Barbara Bonansea scored twice to give Italy a surprise, last-gasp 2-1 victory against Australia in their opening Group C game at the women's World Cup on Sunday.
The shot lacks what muscle is required to lift it above the iron, and after Carmelo Anthony's forceful put-back also disagrees with the rim, Oklahoma City's last gasp ends before it began.
The uncertainty surrounding the last-gasp Brexit talks and news of an unexpected drop in U.S. retail sales last month have stalled world stock markets, with MSCI's all-country index unchanged first thing.
A new three-disc, 69-track box set called Third Complete collects and curates all the extant recordings—rough sketch demos, alternate takes, unreleased tracks and multiple mixes—from Big Star's last gasp.
So rather than think about Labor Day as the last gasp of summer or bemoan the loss of union clout, let's redouble our efforts to revisit its intent and recreate the middle class.
TCU moved to the Baylor 63 on its possession, but a holding penalty pushed it back to the 14 and Duggan's last-gasp pass into the end zone on fourth down was intercepted.
VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - A last-gasp eagle gave Scott Hend the outright lead in the BMW PGA Championship on Saturday, the Australian taking advantage as Danny Willett's challenge unravelled in spectacular style.
One of the leaders of a last-gasp fight to save pioneering dance club Fabric has warned that an engine room of British music culture is on the verge of being lost forever.
Michigan had needed a last-gasp 23-pointer by the substitute Jordan Poole to beat Houston in their game, and on Thursday Beilein wasted little time in calling on Poole, his emerging freshman.
Yet the biggest grab was a 21241-yard toe-tap along the sideline on the first snap of his team's last-gasp drive that put the Steelers near the fringe of Boswell's range.
John McCain of Arizona returned to the Senate after a brain cancer diagnosis, enabling his party to bring its proposals to a vote but sinking its last-gasp measure with a decisive nay.
Among those who are moving to the island are high-net-worth individuals and companies seeking to take advantage of recent last-gasp legislative measures that offer significant tax savings for those relocating.
More than appreciative of Coughlin's accomplishments, the Giants could decide that the best course is to soldier on with their veteran coach, but recent days around the Giants have felt like a last gasp.
Two million public sector employees in Venezuela will only have to work two days a week, getting mandatory five-day weekends as part of the Venezuelan government's latest last-gasp attempt to save power.
After a foul and a steal in a last-gasp scramble, Arcidiacono (22 points) had a chance to win the game with a shot at the buzzer, but it was off the rim short.
The resistance to those who proliferate Islamophobia and racism, the resistance to the billionaires, and those who are mortgage profiteers and healthcare privateers—resistance to this last gasp of a dying white, male supremacy.
Dicker's kick came at the end of a last-gasp, 60-yard drive for Texas, after the Jayhawks had taken a one-point lead on a two-point conversion pass with 73:11 remaining.
Dicker's kick came at the end of a last-gasp, 60-yard drive for Texas, after the Jayhawks had taken a one-point lead on a two-point conversion pass with 1:11 remaining.
This is truly the last-gasp effort to repeal the ACA, one openly based on the political interests of one party (and Donald Trump as an individual) rather than what's good for the country.
Jayhawks' Frank Mason III scored a career-high 32 points, and Devonte Graham hit a clutch 3-pointer with 10 seconds left, giving Kansas a last-gasp hope of tying up in extra time.
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his chief rival, Benny Gantz, made last-gasp efforts to drive voters to the polls, some Israelis were wondering whether it was safe to cast ballots at all.
She's living through the "last gasp of the print magazine," and even as she rises through the ranks, it's clear there is a limit to how successful one can be by the late '90s.
"As what I hope is the last gasp of the anti-science movement, we have this extraordinary administration with extraordinary people heading up the Department of Education and Environmental Protection Agency [EPA]," he said.
And as it prepares to air the first installment of its eighth and final season on April 14, a last-gasp breath of Thrones-branded products has pervaded both internet ads and grocery store aisles.
VOLGOGRAD, Russia (Reuters) - A halftime pep talk and a step-up in pace were the keys to Saudi Arabia's last-gasp World Cup A win over Egypt on Monday, according to coach Juan Antonio Pizzi.
The current chaos of non-compliant cookie notices is thus a signpost pointing at an underlying privacy lag — and likely also the last gasp signage of digital business models well past their sell-by-date.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese soccer fans fought back tears and wondered what could have been after a last-gasp goal by Belgium crushed their dreams of a historic World Cup quarter-final berth in heartbreaking fashion.
San Diego State (103-0) went without a touchdown in the second half, but the defense provided critical stops, including Kelly's interception in the end zone and Thompson's interception on the Huskies' last-gasp effort.
The case "looks like the last gasp of the firm's litigious approach to US actions, and if it is to survive ... the firm will have to sue for lenient treatment from the Commerce Department," said Triolo.
The risk for Mr Sánchez is that his government is seen as a last gasp of the old political duopoly, discredited during the economic crisis as well as by corruption (which has spattered the Socialists, too).
A last-gasp deal to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) does nothing to improve the prospect of a meaningful breakthrough in the U.S.-China trade war, one market expert told CNBC on Monday.
The sculpture's cold satire — the breakdown of an individual, in this case, the artist, into his habits of consumption — struck an expressly nihilistic chord at the time, the last gasp of the crass, materialistic Reagan years.
Senate Republicans are trying to build momentum for a last-gasp bill to replace the Affordable Care Act, swearing that they are once again just a few votes short of delivering on their seven-year pledge.
The last gasp of real hope came late in the fourth quarter when the Eagles were forced to punt, but JoJo Natson, trying to return the punt for Los Angeles, fumbled without even sustaining any contact.
In a last-gasp effort to save the theater program at his Tucson school, he devises a show that's part "Jesus Christ Superstar," part "Back to the Future" and part "Hamlet" sequel, but so much worse.
JUAN WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think it was a last -- you know, a last gasp maneuver because he was having a rough week on this issue, as you&aposve -- as you&aposve explained, Chris.
Sentiment was lifted by a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rescuing a $1.2 trillion a year open-trade zone that had been about to collapse.
But it's also an integral part of a seven-month baseball season, which stretches from the last gasp of winter in April through the back-sweats of August and then back into the frigid embrace of October.
Supporters of a pro-army party that has nominated junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as its candidate for prime minister and the opposition Pheu Thai party will gather separately in Bangkok before sunset for last-gasp campaigning.
"There is a real risk that this general election could be used as a second referendum on the U.K.'s future relationship with the EU – a last gasp attempt to stop Brexit in its tracks," Macquarie said.
A shock 1-0 opening loss to Mexico was followed by a last-gasp 2-1 victory over Sweden, with players like Marco Reus, Sebastian Rudy and Julian Brandt providing much of their spark in the latter.
Not content with upsetting sevens powerhouse New Zealand in the pool stage on Tuesday, the 10th-ranked Japanese knocked off world sevens series regulars Kenya and snatched victory over France with a last-gasp try on Wednesday.
Richardson hit one of two free throws and Duke missed a last-gasp half-court heave, which Coach K also wanted a foul on but let's be real dude, not even your Dukies are getting that call.
This week's media coverage has brought us nuggets like the emergence of his humane side, the gradual thawing of his icy heart, behind-the-scenes looks at his caring nature and last-gasp anecdotes praising his grit.
There was a great turnout for the first big march against the extradition bill on June 9 — about one million people, the city's largest demonstration until then — but it also felt like something of a last gasp.
His perfectly executed last-gasp grab stopped what would have undoubtedly become one of the tries of the World Cup with a tackle that will take a lot to top over the next six weeks in Japan.
Outside Italy, euro zone bond yields were 1-2 bps higher, as a last-gasp deal between the United States and Canada on Sunday to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) pushed investors to riskier assets.
Olympic champion Weertman had looked beaten coming into the final 25 meter sprint to the line but produced a remarkable last-gasp surge to touch the finishing board fractionally ahead of the long-time leader, Hungary's Kristof Rasovszky.
Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not to even hold a vote on the GOP's latest attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party's banner campaign promise.
Christie's last-gasp strategy is to turn Rubio into a limp, soggy chew toy, and the New Jersey governor was all jaws at the debate, where he dismissed Rubio as a jejune purveyor of pretty but practiced lines.
Double London medalist Zabelinskaya, who served an 18-month suspension for a banned stimulant and who got a last-gasp reprieve to compete after the IOC's attempt to ban Russia's previous dopers collapsed, had looked poised for victory.
James Fleming started the revival and, after Rosko Specman appeared to secure a Boks' victory, two moments of last-gasp magic from player of the final Fife won Scotland the title in their first appearance in a final.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Brazilian Lucas Di Grassi seized a last-gasp victory in a wild finish to the Mexico City ePrix on Saturday, with Belgian Jerome d'Ambrosio returning to the top of the all-electric Formula E standings.
Market sentiment was lifted by a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rescuing a $1.2 trillion a year open-trade zone that had been about to collapse.
He was dropped for their last-gasp win over Sweden but returned to the starting line-up for their final group match against South Korea but made no impact in a 2-0 defeat that sealed their elimination.
Footage released by Islamic State news agency Amaq entitled "Fighting till the last gasp" and allegedly filmed in Mosul's Maydan district showed militants mixed in with civilians and unidentified corpses lying amid the rubble of an urban battlefield.
In spite of all of the above, a last gasp could remain for the administration to reach the agreement with Europe to address Iran's support for international terrorism, ballistic missile program, and the sunset provisions of the JCPOA.
Brazilian Lucas Moura scored a last-gasp winner late on Wednesday to complete his hat-trick, and seal a 3-2 win to send London's Tottenham Hotspur past Ajax and into the Champions League final on away goals.
ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Iran forward Karim Ansarifard has called for the country's football authorities to convince coach Carlos Queiroz to extend his stay after the side's dramatic last-gasp 1-0 World Cup victory over Morocco on Friday.
The service, which began in late October as a little-noticed, last-gasp measure by a small group of local ministers, is now a national movement, attracting clergy members and congregants from villages and cities across the Netherlands.
"To me, it's the last gasp of a ruling group of Republicans who are on their way out the door," said Kia Hamadanchy, a son of Persian immigrants who is running for Congress as a Democrat in Irvine.
For Martin Heidegger, the will to power was the last gasp of metaphysics—an attempt to capture the "basic character of all beings," which Heidegger wishes to supplant with his post-metaphysical idea of being-in-the-world.
S. trade deal * Markets scale back risk of rate cuts around the world * Safe-haven bonds, yen fall away By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Asian share markets jumped on Friday as a last-gasp Sino-U.
With the satirizing "Troïka ou Clochette" (1960), I can think through the timeline of elegiac ideas of industrial splendor, made fun of by the work's nonchalant, jerky, absurd, awkward, dancing movements, which evoke a constantly deferred last gasp.
PARIS (Reuters) - France coach Didier Deschamps made clear he expected more from Paul Pogba after the midfielder went missing in the hosts' last-gasp 2-1 win over Group A rivals Romania in their Euro 2016 opener on Friday.
PARIS/MARSEILLE (Reuters) - Two of the outside contenders in France's presidential election, Francois Fillon and Jean-Luc Melenchon, whipped up support with mass rallies on Sunday, seeking a last-gasp boost ahead of an increasingly tight first voting round.
The five-time World Cup winners have been criticized at home for their performance in the tournament so far, drawing with Switzerland and securing a last-gasp victory over Costa Rica in the very final moments of the match.
But behind-the-scenes, the foundation served another purpose: It was a front organization for the South African government, bankrolled as a last-gasp attempt to prolong its existence, according to investigations by Newsday and the Observer in London.
Consecutive victories over quality opponents — including Sunday's last-gasp win over the Houston Texans — have kept alive their hopes of becoming the first to win consecutive Super Bowls since the New England Patriots in the 2003 and 210 seasons.
The last time gold prices rose more than 10 percent in a 20153-day stretch, the bullion market was in the last gasp of a decade-long rally that soon peaked at more than $1,920 per ounce in 2011.
The Honda rider pulled out a rapid last-gasp lap of the Texas track in two minutes 02.741 seconds to deny Vinales, winner of the season's first two races for Yamaha, the top slot by 0.130 of a second.
With our legislature composed mostly of millionaires, elected through a gerrymandered system, funded by a precious few and managed by an established elite, Mr. Trump's supporters — and Bernie Sanders's — may represent a desperate last gasp to reaffirm true democracy.
In "Democracy and Dysfunction," a book published last month that Balkin wrote with the constitutional scholar Sanford Levinson, Balkin describes the Trump administration as a "disjunctive" presidency, the last gasp of the vanishing Reagan era that began in 1980.
Although it was originally opened by movie star Jonny Harlowe (after being convinced by his friend Frank Sinatra that it was a good idea), it shut, but was reopened in 2019 for a last gasp of old Hollywood glamour.
The success of "Parasite" makes me wonder if the best picture win for a middlebrow nothing like "Green Book" last year was more anomalous than it seemed — that it represented more of a last gasp than a serious retrenchment.
The other piece of good news is the likelihood of a last-gasp trade deal between the United States and China that will remove the risk of another slug of tariffs being imposed on Chinese goods from Dec. 27.
In the end, it was two men who made the crucial breakthrough; Edwin Cardona may have provided the sweet, chipped finish which sealed their last-gasp win, but he couldn't have done it without the help of Carlos Bacca.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Subdued by three bailouts, record high unemployment and a maelstrom of taxes, Greeks were in no mood to party on Friday at news of a last-gasp deal pulling them from the brink of a financial abyss. Again.
It was that he is the most cartoonishly 1950s chauvinistic version of a white dude, almost like that's that world's last gasp before it finally goes out, is to put this … demonic, accelerated version of itself out there one last time.
Serbia (2-3), the only team with a losing record to make it out of group play, shocked second ranked Australia 73-71 while Spain needed a last gasp buzzer beater from Anna Cruz to get past Turkey 64-62.
Last month, Indian buyers lifted purchases of Iranian crude to 502,000 bpd, up 111,000 bpd over August, in "a last gasp" of purchases "before sanctions actually hit," a U.S.-based trader said, adding that those additional barrels displaced U.S. crude.
Pop stars, celebrities and scantily clad dancers entertained big crowds across Manila, two days from an election shaken up by a last-gasp appeal from President Benigno Aquino for a united front to stop Duterte converting his runaway popularity into victory.
But the last gasp of winter, forecast to drop as much as 6 inches (15 cm) of snow on Boston, was expected to be brief, with temperatures expected to rise to about 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius) by the afternoon.
In summer's last gasp we already had one under our belt: "Operation Finale," based on the true story of Mossad agents in 1960 who captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and took him to stand trial in Israel.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - World champions Germany's last-gasp victory over Sweden on Saturday unleashed a wave of euphoria among players and coaching staff but head coach Joachim Loew said changes would be needed for their final Group F game against South Korea.
After previous inversions since the 103s, the S&P 500 has typically fallen about 5% over one or two months, followed by a "last gasp" rally of an average of 17% and lasting about seven months, according to Bank of America.
SYDNEY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Teenager Rieko Ioane scored a dramatic last-gasp try to give New Zealand a 733-24 win over Australia in a thrilling final on Sunday and dash hopes of a home triumph in the inaugural Sydney Sevens.
"Those outdated steel mills, local governments and local banks are lingering in the last gasp," said Xu Zhongbo, head of Beijing Metal Consulting, which advises Chinese steel mills, adding that they were doing all they could to delay the capacity cuts.
Those enticed by the federal government's offer to pay 90–100 percent of new Medicaid expansion costs should recognize this as Obama's last-gasp attempt to rescue the Affordable Care Act from the fire, by marrying it to state budgets.
We debated whether the Democratic platform tussle over a carbon price and natural gas policy between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, resolved a few days ago, was the last gasp of climate change as a big issue in the presidential campaign.
Davis made one of two free throw attempts with 16 seconds remaining, and the Racers' Miller and guard Jerami Grace each missed from 3-point range on the ensuing possession in their last gasp to cut into the lead more.
After Meisha Tate's last gasp finish of Holly Holm in the co-main event of UFC 196, the overwhelming majority of the spectators in the MGM Grand Garden Arena believed they had witnessed the most significant upset of the night.
Mary had been an increasingly unappealing and uninteresting character since the death of her first husband, Matthew, in Season 3, and the last-gasp, final-season romance with Henry was a meeting of cold fish, a veritable buffet of poached salmon.
Victories over Canada and Portugal as well as a last-gasp draw with hosts Australia put the world champions into Sunday's quarter-finals at the stadium where Williams once strutted his stuff in the colours of rugby league's Sydney Roosters.
The Blue Samurai came within a whisker of giving Asia their first quarter-finalists since the continent first hosted the tournament in 2002 before Belgium came from two goals down to knock them out with a last-gasp Nacer Chadli strike.
A last-gasp goal by host Alavès dealt Real Madrid, the European champion, a 1-0 defeat in La Liga on Saturday, extending Madrid's scoring drought to four straight games — almost seven hours of game time without finding the net.
Colombia missed one penalty and saw another saved in the shootout to go down 4-3 after forcing the game to extra time courtesy of a last-gasp equalizer by Yerry Mina that saw them level the scores at 1-1.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - A revamped but businesslike Croatia topped their World Cup Group D as Ivan Perisic's last-gasp goal helped them maintain their perfect record with a 2-1 win that also ended valiant Iceland's tournament on Tuesday.
United States The United States and Canada forged a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.
The Asian powerhouse bowed out with a typically attritional 1-1 draw against Portugal on Monday, their fans heartbroken after Mehdi Taremi missed a last-gasp effort that would have fired them into the knockout rounds for a first time.
" That, too, has changed: In November, when the Times editorial board criticized police and prosecutors' attempts to block modest bail and discovery reform measures, they were blunt and prescriptive, calling the efforts "A Sad Last Gasp Against Criminal Justice Reform.
The Democratic party tried several last-gasp efforts to placate American officials, including dispatching a key lieutenant to Washington and announcing plans to move Moldova's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, a decision intended to impress President Trump.
Today's forecast for New York City is pretty similar to that for most of New Hampshire, where the presidential hopefuls (a few of whom have ties to New York, of course) have their last-gasp chance to campaign for the country's first primaries.
Tennessee's last-gasp TD pass sinks Georgia ATHENS, Ga. — On the 15th anniversary of Georgia's famed "Hobnail Boot" win at Tennessee, so affectionately called by late Bulldog broadcaster Larry Munson, the 143-ranked Volunteers flipped the script with Saturday's amazing 34-31 victory.
PARIS (Reuters) - Scotland were knocked out of the women's World Cup on Wednesday after Argentina came back from 3-0 down to snatch a 3-3 draw with a last gasp re-taken penalty following a dramatic intervention from the video assistant referee.
For much of the second half it looked like Iceland would again triumph on the back of a flawless defensive performance and packed midfield always a step ahead of their rivals to clear the danger, albeit with some desperate last-gasp interventions.
AUBURN 18, L.S.U. 13 Daniel Carlson kicked six field goals, and host Auburn (2-2, 1-353 SEC) stunned No. 18 Louisiana State (2-2, 1-1), with officials negating a last-gasp pass from L.S.U. quarterback Danny Etling for an apparent score.
Love grabbed 14 rebounds Sunday night, had a Game 7 plus-minus of 19 — the highest mark by far of any Cavalier — and held defensively steady as Curry frantically and foolishly launched a last-gasp 3-point attempt that did not come close.
"I didn't see the defeat coming," Hodgson said on Tuesday, before revealing that he had drawn great encouragement from his side's three group-stage fixtures: a careless draw with Russia, a last-gasp win over Wales, and an insipid 0-0 with Slovakia.
Both teams had qualified before kickoff and they will be joined in the knockouts by Cameroon, who finished with three points and advanced as one of the best third-placed teams thanks to a last-gasp 2-1 win over New Zealand.
The affable 38-year-old Yorkshireman, who is to unveil his spring 2020 collection — described as "a paean to the last gasp of British florals and tweeness in the early 1990s" — at London Fashion Week Men's on Saturday, started his label in 2015.
"The conventional wisdom used to be that North Korea would use only nuclear weapons as part of a last gasp, twilight of the gods, pull the temple down upon themselves kind of move," said Klingner, who now works for the conservative Heritage Foundation.
To fill the stands, he provided the last-gasp professional stops for Jose Canseco and Rickey Henderson, rented a crop duster to drop 5,000 $100 bills on fans of the Yuma Scorpions and hired a female knuckleballer to start for the Chico Outlaws.
True, Singer's hedge fund Elliott Management is no longer demanding a new CEO, but the deal—reportedly negotiated after Twitter chair Omid Kordestani and board member Patrick Pichette made a last-gasp pitch to save Dorsey's job—has more strings than a zither.
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday officially abandoned the latest plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, shelving a showdown vote on the measure and effectively admitting defeat in their last-gasp drive to fulfill a core promise of President Trump and Republican lawmakers.
"It's that last gasp of beauty before death," said C. Edward Wall, the founder and curator of Hortus Tulipus, an attempt to collect broken and old tulips in the United States that was inspired by Hortus Bulborum, which preserves them in the Netherlands.
Trungelliti's last-gasp journey from Barcelona, and the travelogue-style photos and videos his wife posted along the way, was the buzz of Paris on the claycourt Grand Slam's second day of action; and his victory proved the icing on the cake.
" MEANWHILE, IN WASHINGTON: From POLITICO's Burgess Everett and Jennifer Haberkorn: "Senate Republicans' last-gasp Obamacare repeal effort is gaining steam, with key senators who tanked the last push in July signaling new openness to the latest attempt and GOP leaders growing increasingly bullish.
Indeed, some future generation may see Brexit, the backstop, and the DUP as a last gasp of Unionists to uphold the inviolability of the Union: recent polling suggests the DUP are trying to turn a tide that may one day sink them.
Monte dei Paschi di Siena is to be rescued by the Italian state using a new €20.02 billion (£16.8 billion) bailout package, as a last-gasp private sector rescue plan for the world's oldest bank looked set to fail, forcing losses on bondholders.
What once glittered with seasonal displays and pretty department store girls spraying perfume is now in disarray, as if college students returned home for the summer and dumped their stuff — the messy, last-gasp remnants of a century of polite, sociable capitalism.
If Washington sticks to its stance of no sanctions relief until North Korea gives up the proverbial keys to its nuclear kingdom, then Trump's latest meeting with Kim "may be remembered as the last gasp of a strategy that was predictably doomed," Narang said.
"Dear Environmental Protection Agency: Just writing to remind you that your job is to secure clean air, water, affordable energy, and healthier lives for the AMERICAN PEOPLE, not to secure the last gasp for your fossil-fuel allies in their dying industries," wrote another.
Both versions encountered opposition from enough GOP senators to doom the effort, but McConnell is making a last-gasp attempt this week after Trump insisted that senators not leave town for the August recess without sending him some kind of health overhaul bill to sign.
Why it matters: Even though the CMS numbers are rosier than other estimates, they still show states like Alaska and Arizona would be worse off under Graham-Cassidy, making it that much harder to wrangle the votes needed to pass the last-gasp Republican plan.
The Central American nation reached the World Cup for the first time in their history thanks to a last gasp 2-1 win over Costa Rica, while Honduras ended fourth and will play Australia over two legs for a place in Russia next year.
" Still, Grasso acknowledged what some might be wondering about this surge higher, "Is it that [investors are] reaching for the last thing and it's the last gasp of the rally, or is it just throwing in the towel and knowing that we're going higher overall?
The 7-footer also recorded one of his 51 double-doubles with 15 points and 16 boards earlier this month in a win over the Pelicans, who are making a last-gasp push for a playoff spot with six wins in their last eight games.
Mitt Romney's bold declaration of independence from Trump, issued in a Washington Post op-ed, tees the former presidential candidate and new senator as either the new leader of Trump-skeptical Republicans or the last gasp of resistance to the President within his own party.
Yet Republican legislators were so set on overturning Barack Obama's signature achievement that "skinny" repeal, as a last-gasp version became known, nearly became law anyway—it took three GOP senators voting against their own party in the dead of night to kill it.
If Saturday's final was the event's last gasp, it had a breathtaking finish, with Federer and Bencic prevailing in an 18-shot rally on a winner-take-all final point against Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber, clinching a second straight title for the Swiss pair.
Oakland's center fielder, Rajai Davis, ended last season as a near hero for the Cleveland Indians, tying Game 7 of the World Series with a homer in the eighth inning and driving in a run in a doomed, last-gasp rally in the 10th.
What's next: This may manifest on the campaign trail as a referendum not only on reversing the tax cuts and implementing a Green New Deal, but then moving in the exact opposite direction — Trump as the last gasp of trickle-down economics, Axios' Dan Primack notes.
In their first match, on a sweltering afternoon in Verona with Ronaldo making his debut, they trailed 23-1 at Chievo with 15 minutes left before an own goal by Mattia Bani and a last-gasp winner from Federico Bernardeschi gave them a 3-2 win.
It was also that, as a civil rights historian, I needed to understand whether this newly violent and visible form of bigotry was the last gasp of a backlash to a half century of civil rights progress or the beginning of a new upsurge against it.
If a candidate can combine Sanders's economic populism with the ability to articulate that message in the South, then the future will belong Sanders, and Clinton's triumph will be seen as the last gasp of the centrism that dominated the party in the long aftermath of Reaganism.
Meanwhile, the United States and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.
And its failure or success as the Senate takes up Obamacare repeal will reveal if this is either the last gasp of a fading small-government crusade or the start of a welfare state rollback effort that will eventually expand to cover Medicare and Social Security as well.
The Blue Devils certainly remember the last time the Hurricanes blew into town in 2015 as Miami pulled out the 30-27 victory with a controversial last-gasp 91-yard kickoff return that featured eight laterals and four missed calls that resulted in suspensions for the ACC officiating crew.
If the hours leading up to midnight -- and with it, another fundraising deadline -- were all about securing a few last-gasp donations, the first morning of the election year has been full of everything from resolutions to wishes for 2016 to an early round of jabs at rival candidates.
If the 22020 warplanes on board the Admiral Kuznetsov join the bombardment of Syria, the carrier will have its first active combat role since it was launched more than three decades ago as part of a last gasp by the fading Soviet Union to challenge American naval power.
Dennis P. Eichhorn's Extra Good StuffBy Dennis P. Eichhorn and various illustrators (Last Gasp) I bought one of Eichhorn's old comics about true stories from his actual life about a decade ago and wondered why he thinks he is interesting enough to be the subject of his own comics.
Alabama (13-0, 8-0) unleashed all its weapons against the overmatched Gators, scoring on an interception and a blocked punt in the first half, snuffing out Florida's last gasp with a goal-line stand, and wearing down the Gators at the end with a dominant running game.
Rather, Mr. Trump, his followers and the current dysfunctional government are the result of a last-gasp throwback to the time when, as Mr. Brooks describes, you "climbed the corporate ladder if you golfed at the right club" — a time that Mr. Trump would like to return to.
As Carter straddled the old New Deal-Great Society liberalism and the age of Reaganism and neoliberalism to come, so Trump's presidency is at once the seeming last gasp for the Reagan coalition and a possible doorway into a future where socialism and right-wing populism contend for mastery instead.
EditorsNote: Adds detail on Chargers' last gasp (fourth graf); a few other minor tweaks Deshaun Watson connected with tight end Jordan Akins for two second-half touchdowns to lead the Houston Texans to a 27-20 come-from-behind victory against the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday at Carson, Calif.
While Manchester City (second) and Arsenal (fourth) have to juggle Premier League games with domestic cup and Champions League matchups, Leicester City has been eliminated from the League and F.A. Cups and, with its last-gasp dash to avoid relegation in the Premier League last year, did not qualify for European competition.
It's possible that some contestants didn't plan to make their name by publishing their five days' worth of cheery observations about why Mall of America is certainly not an oppressive organization that tracks political protestors on Facebook, or the last gasp of a failing consumer model being rapidly replaced by online shopping.
PELICANS 117, NETS 115 Jrue Holiday highlighted a 26-point performance with a pull-up jumper near the foul line with two seconds left, Anthony Davis stole the Nets' last-gasp inbound pass, and the New Orleans Pelicans remained unbeaten by scoring 9 straight points over the final 1:49 Friday night.
For those that see the latest fad of American natural gas pipeline projects for what they are—a last-gasp attempt by energy companies hoping to capitalize on juicy government subsidies as the planet careens into a climate crisis—it's difficult to channel the necessary energy for opposition to a single project.
An afternoon here — particularly if you splurge on lunch at the on-site restaurant, where the menu was conceived by Argentine fire-master Francis Mallmann — is a delight, and a last gasp of upscale indulgence (with concomitant prices) before entering the department of Rocha, where everything immediately becomes much more laid-back.
A group of senators is making a last gasp effort to repeal some of the law and replace it with a block grant program to the states, though many Senate Republicans are pessimistic they will be able to get the 50 of their 52 senators needed to support it in the coming days.
A keeper made a huge number of saves to keep the team level, the game was tied at 0-0, forcing extra time, the better team (not the U.S.) got two goals that were a long time coming, the U.S. managed a last-gasp goal, and in the end, the better team won out.
Others warn that Europe needs to "fix the roof while the sun is shining" (to quote former U.K. Finance Minister George Osborne) especially when the region is continuing to enjoy the last gasp of low interest rates thanks to the European Central Bank's quantitative easing program, expected to finish at the end of this year.
Showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields have always been very explicit that this series is more about marriage than anything else, and this final season sure feels like a last gasp of turbulence before what I'd guess — or maybe more accurately, hope — will be some kind of mutually destructive, romantic-as-hell Thelma & Louise moment.
The Australian duo broke out in 2008, emerging alongside M83, Miike Snow, Owl City, and pre-oontz Calvin Harris as part of the late 00s twee-DM wave—that soft-around-the-edges crossover between the last gasp of indie rock and the incoming electronic takeover best described as Garden State: The Next Generation.
Ronaldo headed his fourth goal of the tournament after four minutes, following his last-gasp equalizer in a hat-trick in the 3-3 draw with Spain, to take the European champions to four points and top of Group B. Iran have three points and Spain one ahead of their meeting later on Wednesday.
AP Photo/StapletonIf you try to imagine the most pathetic gathering of humans ever, it would probably look a lot like this group of people who have amassed their fortunes by stripping the Earth of its fossil fuels and are desperately trying to squeeze the last gasp of relevance out of a backwards-thinking, planet-strangling industry.
As one of the most prolific, consistent and prodigious rappers to emerge in recent years, Mr. Staples, who turns 24 in July, has already been held up as a last-gasp protector of many things thought to be endangered: hip-hop lyricism, West Coast gangster rap, in-the-trenches protest songs, social-media authenticity and so on.
It was the last gasp of a pre-internet age without tweeting and instantaneous blogging—where a candidate could offer some semblance of their actual self on the campaign trail without being plunged into instantaneous controversy by a constantly needy machine of fresh hot takes, partisanship, and permanent warfare that's all required to keep the money, clicks, and adrenaline flowing.
Retrospectively, this looks like the last gasp of belief in incremental but progressive change toward a better future through the attainment of ever greater knowledge, although, ironically, we could argue that the death of Modernism brought with it an opening for the voices that were previously marginalized or silenced and was in fact further progress and an expansion of Enlightenment humanism.
A few minutes after his team had staged its staggering, last-gasp comeback to beat Ajax and seal a place in its first European Cup final, Pochettino had sat down in front of the assembled news media and announced — entirely unexpectedly — that if Spurs won club soccer's grandest prize, he would consider walking away, a man with no worlds left to conquer.
S. trade deal * Safe-haven bonds, yen fall away * Markets scale back risk of rate cuts around the world SYDNEY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Asian share markets were set fair on Friday on reports a last-gasp trade deal had averted new U.S. tariffs on China, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party looked to have won a clear majority in UK elections.
Letter To the Editor: Re "England's Last Gasp of Empire" (July 13): When the ancient Athenians voted overwhelmingly for foolish decisions — like their decision to execute the entire adult male population of the city of Mytilene in 427 B.C. — they at least had the option of meeting the next day and voting again (they reversed themselves.) But the Brexit vote offers no easy remedy.
When I look back at the 2016 election, what is really striking is how much influence over the course of events was exercised by the relatively small numbers of voters in super-white municipalities and counties and by the politician who ignited them — how the last gasp of a small fraction of the electorate set the nation on such a dangerous and destructive course.
As I watched, I realized these weren't just random or offhand comments; they're the last gasp of a political elite that's been radically out of touch with the lives of normal people for most of the 21st century, increasingly inept at explaining the enormous pain and discontent felt by the working- and middle-class voters who make up the base of the Democratic Party.
Toronto used explosive plays to heat up a wintry night in the Canadian capital turning a Grey Cup record 100 yard touchdown catch by DeVier Posey, a championship record 109 yard fumble return for another touchdown from Cassius Vaughn and an interception in the endzone by Matt Black to snuff out a last gasp Calgary scoring bid to bring the CFL season to breathless conclusion.
S. trade deal * Safe-haven bonds, yen fall away * Markets scale back risk of rate cuts around the world By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Asian share markets were set fair on Friday on reports a last-gasp trade deal had averted new U.S. tariffs on China, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party looked to have won a clear majority in UK elections.
It was a living monument to Lower Manhattan's lineage of multicultural artists and thinkers — people who often get overlooked in favor of narratives of and by successive generations of self-destructing, gentrifying white bohemians — but it was also an all-hours open house, where all were welcome (even the gentrifying white bohemians) and an essential site of Lower Manhattan's last gasp as the center of the avant-garde.
The last gasp effort by bipartisan immigration warriors on Capitol Hill — the late Senator Ted Kennedy, and Senator Lindsey GrahamLindsey Olin GrahamGraham warns Trump on Taliban deal in Afghanistan: Learn from 'Obama's mistakes' Appropriators warn White House against clawing back foreign aid Trump meets with national security team on Afghanistan peace plan MORE — tried and failed to negotiate comprehensive immigration bill that would have set the stage for a rational stream of workers and the tightening of the border.
Florida is set to become a last-gasp state for Republican donors desperate to stop 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, with major anti-Trump groups coordinating their strategies and pouring millions into a frantic effort to defeat the billionaire in Marco RubioMarco Antonio RubioTrump moves forward with F-2628 sale to Taiwan opposed by China The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Trump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move MORE's home-state primary on March 28503.

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