Donna Donovan, the party press secretary, said some members, "as a last-ditch option," believe the party should sit out the presidential campaign this year and build for the future instead.

"Killing them's only a last-ditch option," Gold said, "and knocking out the gravity'll hardly matter."

Eventually, casinos were seen as a last-ditch option.

That last-ditch option remains open today, though.

Only as a last-ditch option, of course.

They are down to some last-ditch options, including an across the board reduction in all spending, a meat cleaver approach that leaves Republicans vulnerable to accusations from Democrats of gutting popular programs.

Normally, the expulsion of the core was a last-ditch option employed if a critical, unstoppable overload was in progress, but Dax had laid a path for sh'Zenne to exploit.

It was viewed only as a last-ditch option in case Europe and Asia were overrun by the fascists or Communists.

That was definitely a last-ditch option, however.

If she absolutely had to, she could use her battle armor's internal com to contact General Conflans, but that had to be a last-ditch option.