21.  Foreign Taliban fighters, the subject of so much speculation, were nowhere to be seen, vanished like the stories of their fanatical preparations for a last stand.

22.  Forbes is not the only candidate who may be making his last stand in New Hampshire.

23.  For pro-British loyalists, hardliners who want no part of accommodating Catholic nationalists who aspire to a united Ireland, this is their Alamo, their last stand.

24.  Granite Mountain stands like a giant soldier, watching over the last stands of wild cactus, cholla and creosote left in north Scottsdale.

25.  George W. Ball, the undersecretary of state, was making one last passionate stand for a milder course and tried to enlist Bundy.

26.  I know this is my last stand.

27.  If the three strikes rule is as applicable to the music business as it is to baseball, Joi Gilliam-Gipp is about to make her last stand.

28.  If the Stars have a last stand, they have to make it Monday night.

29.  In retrospect, it was a marvelous achievement, one that unfortunately was probably his last stand in hockey.

30.  Instead, there is the Spirit of Drumcree, a radical wing of Orangemen who say this is the last stand, the Alamo of Northern Ireland.