11.   It is billed as the last resort for people who the banks believe are too risky to back.

12.   It is, at best, a last resort.

13.   Its use in self-defence is entirely secondary and only employed as a last resort.

14.   Lithium was to be a last resort, and it looked as if she needed some in October.

15.   Loans are unsecured and there is no lender of last resort.

16.   Lucker holds my hand with the kind of grasp that men at sea learn as a last resort.

17.   Only as a last resort does he employ them.

18.   Only in the last resort, under careful international policing and after all other attempts at persuasion have been exhausted.

19.   Residential care should not be used as a last resort.

20.   The chances of this working are close to zero, leaving organic farmers without their biological weapon of last resort.