1.  Passage of the far-reaching campaign finance legislation was assured as opponents exhausted their last legislative means to stop it -- losing the cloture vote.

2.  Try to pull the dollarweed when you see it, and resort to herbicides only as a last means of defense.

3.  Prayong said the aerial photos should be the last means of proof because they have many weak points.

4.  Passage of far-reaching U.S. political campaign finance legislation was assured Wednesday as opponents exhausted their last legislative means to stop it.