The president came in there, eleventh-hour appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2005] Reference

Anyhow they developed some eleventh-hour criticisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919] Reference

How are the media handling this eleventh-hour drama?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2000] Reference

We agree that there's some "eleventh-hour" smearing going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [PAC-ing Heat] Reference

Duke tried to close the gap with eleventh-hour attacks on Edwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saying 'No' To Duke] Reference

Even insiders were desperate eleventh-hour gambit to stave off confused.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Blockbuster Deal?] Reference

Gingrich put out a statement hailing McCain's eleventh-hour intervention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Troublemaker] Reference

But after an eleventh-hour appeal by Myers herself, Clinton overruled Panetta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Non-Shuffle Shuffle] Reference

But I wouldn't be shocked if they had tried to make an eleventh-hour deal with David.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leno: 'This Is A Big-Time Business'] Reference

And it was the most intense eleventh-hour pressure that just pushed aside Prime Minister Jaafari.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2006] Reference

To strengthen its case, the prosecution also plans to call an extraordinary eleventh-hour witness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bloody 'Army' On Trial] Reference

Speechwriter, adviser, and special assistant Pat Buchanan called in with an eleventh-hour conflict.    From Wordnik.com.  [All the Presidents' Men (and Women)] Reference

But in October, Congress inserted the Child Online Protection Act into its eleventh-hour omnibus spending bill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Talk About Sex] Reference

Assembly on Friday last week after four years of drafting, and eleventh-hour changes introduced by the majority ANC.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Critics have argued that the quota system, which was part of eleventh-hour amendments introduced by the African National.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

An eleventh-hour election ploy underscores both Thaksin's style and its tendency to backfire outside Thailand's borders.    From Wordnik.com.  [THAILAND: AN ANNOYING NEIGHBOR] Reference

He proposed to repeal Bush's eleventh-hour HHS regulation which gives health care workers personal views over medical care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Northup: Rewriting Science Fiction: Editing Politics from Plan B] Reference

Smuts was referring to former president FW de Klerk's eleventh-hour High Court bid to have sections of the report withheld.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is bracing itself for a flood of eleventh-hour amnesty applications from the African.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

That eleventh-hour boom has prompted some administration officials to see the chip deal as a potential model for the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Tough On Tokyo?] Reference

Two prominent Arab-Israelis, one a member of the Knesset, were in Gaza on an eleventh-hour mission to find a peaceful way out.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bloodied Prize] Reference

Will President Clinton's eleventh-hour use of the 1906 American Antiquities Act lead to a backlash against this venerable legislation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Minute Monuments] Reference

But, as legislation to authorize a ballot measure stalled, an eleventh-hour cost-benefit analysis turned near defeat into sure victory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Rogers: The Other New Jersey Race: Parks Make Dollars, and Sense] Reference

Now, however, as a result of an eleventh-hour change, ACES weakens this requirement by forcing the EPA to use faulty carbon accounting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frances Beinecke: Let's Not Go Backwards on Biofuels: Fixing the Climate Bill's Biofuels Provisions] Reference

Midnight appointments and pardons are one thing (Scooter, we haven't forgotten ye), but a wee bit of eleventh-hour warfare is quite another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nathaniel Bach: "Bomb 'Em and Bail" - Attacking Iran And The Collateral Damage To Our Democracy] Reference

Among all possible parties to play the role of eleventh-hour savior, there was our good ol 'US government - the IRS no less - just doing its job.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Talavera: What a Difference a Year Makes: Lessons From a Family $1,000 Away From Homeless] Reference

But traders said the eleventh-hour plunge came amid relatively light trading volume -- a sign there could yet be more sellers waiting on the sidelines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Drop Leaves Dow Down 200] Reference

Amid the market turmoil of the past several months, this tendency has often resulted in eleventh-hour downgrades of stocks that have already been roundly punished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill Is Bullish Again on Lehman] Reference

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who has been mediating between the two sides, for an eleventh-hour summit in Cairo on Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israel Threatens Offensive in Gaza] Reference

After a day berating Barack Obama ( "Shame on you!") in Cincinnati and making an eleventh-hour appeal to African-American leaders in New Orleans, Clinton still hasn't had enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayhill Fowler: Ground Report: Clinton Campaign Aimless in Texas] Reference