last-ditch effort

Moss made a last-ditch effort for his team at the end but came up short.

It may prove a last-ditch effort to make the industry work.

"The parents are in a last-ditch effort at this moment and have run out of legal options."

Even so, we made a last-ditch effort to bring the Republicans to some sort of compromise.

He would reform the system in a last-ditch effort to save it.

In a last-ditch effort, I called a family friend who owned a travel agency.

It was at the very end, a last-ditch effort to make things work.

In 1996 a last-ditch effort was made to save the church.

"It is a last-ditch effort to keep students in a structured program of some sort so they can move forward."

He probably said this in some last-ditch effort to save himself from destruction, but I did not care what his reasons were.