1.  It became a last stand, all very dramatic.

2.  And because Bush has so dominated the polls and amassed so much cash, some campaigns said that Ames might be their last stand.

3.  A panicky last stand?

4.  A virulent and incurable fungus known as the pitch canker is sweeping through the last stands here, killing healthy trees and threatening to turn the verdant hills brown.

5.  A team that had come undone under duress four days earlier pulled itself together for a gallant last stand.

6.  Al-Amin may have come back to White Hall as a place to make his last stand, she said.

7.  But Greg Townsend supplanted him last year and Smith took over this year, relegating Bruce to special teams and last stands on the goal line.

8.  But Joseph made his last stand in the kitchen of his Flushing home on Monday evening.

9.  But it was their last stand.

10.  But the underground was still concerned that southern troops would stage a last stand in Saigon.