The selection process failed to meet the hopes of many world leaders who thought the contest would provide the first realistic chance for a non-European to take the top post in the globe's last-resort lender. ❋ Sudeep Reddy (2011)
The Brazilian's comments broke with the tenor of remarks the day before by several emerging-economy finance chiefs, who argued that countries with a growing share in the world economy be given a shot at leading the globe's last-resort lender. ❋ John Lyons (2011)
"I'm not looking for the state to become a shareholder—that's absolutely a last-resort option," Mr. Belka said. ❋ Gordon Fairclough (2011)
It's just another sign that except for CBS (and to a lesser degree the CW, with its fantasy combo), or unless you're a newsmagazine, it's kind of a last-resort time slot. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Finland's finance minister said the bloc will have to look to the ECB as a last-resort option "if nothing else works," and the Belgian finance minister said ministers would "put on the table some proposals" to give the ECB and the IMF a more active role. ❋ Stephen Fidler (2011)
Photo: EFE/ Zuma Press More than half of the total property-insurance exposure along the North Carolina coast belongs to the state's last-resort insurer, the Beach Plan, which was created in 1969 to cover barrier islands near the Atlantic Ocean. ❋ Erik Holm (2011)
The Senate's two party leaders have reportedly come to tentative agreement on a last-resort solution to the current debt ceiling standoff. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)
Workers started spraying fresh water on a reactor pressure vessel at No. 2 reactor Saturday, switching from a last-resort measure in which seawater had been used to cool reactors. ❋ Megumi Fujikawa (2011)
In case things don't sound unstable enough, Joe Biden appeared before the Democratic caucus and reportedly compared Republicans to terrorists, suggested that President Obama is open to a last-resort 14th Amendment option and, probably, ripped his shirt off and screamed for mercy from the Sun God Ra. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)
Utilities like Germany's E.ON AG and RWE AG, and most recently Poland's PGNiG SA have taken Gazprom to arbitration in a last-resort effort to compromise on gas prices. ❋ Jan Hromadko (2011)
Rather than finding a greater nobility in this voluntary commitment, far too many see it as mere opportunism, or even as accepting an option of last-resort from the government. ❋ William McNulty (2011)
Complicating matters further, China is likely to object to a last-resort specification. ❋ Nathalie Boschat (2011)
In addition, by trying to keep rates affordable for homeowners, the last-resort insurers help fuel coastal development that puts homeowners across the state at financial risk, some critics say. ❋ Erik Holm (2011)
"Trucking five litres of water per day as a last-resort lifesaving intervention to 80,000 people in Ethiopia costs more than $3m £2m for five months, compared to $900,000 to prepare water sources in the same area for an oncoming drought," it says. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The cajas are furiously preparing stock-market listings and sounding out private investors ahead of a government-set September deadline, in an attempt to avoid last-resort measures, such as capital injections from taxpayers. ❋ Christopher Bjork (2011)
Oh, for constant, low-level vexation over largely bugger-all: frittered grocery budgets, nomination-day crocodile tears, characters who confuse "keeping it real" with "being verbose tactless tits", spats over contraband Bourbon Creams and the edifying spectacle of D-list celebs weeping into cans of brand-obscured pilsner, before crawling around on astroturf snatching up old fag butts to build grim last-resort roll ups. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Mr. Bobb had already gained state approval for a last-resort plan to eliminate the deficit by 2014. ❋ Matthew Dolan (2011)
The intent was to have the starter motor as a last-resort option for getting the vehicle out of a bad situation. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Therefore, I think the government stepping in as the insurer of last-resort is a TERRIBLE idea. ❋ Unknown (2009)
