The industry made a last-ditch stand in the senate.

I knew then that he had already bought forty thousand, and that this was the last-ditch stand.

There's stuff here I've never seen before, experimental types, I imagine, rushed in by the enemy for a last-ditch stand.

Nobody in his company should mention 1994, the year the Leinster men unleashed the mother of all last-ditch stands to ambush his team's All-Ireland dream.

This is why "Croppies lie down" and calls to last-ditch stands in defence of the Union are among the most potent slogans in Northern Ireland.