Carlin had feared that it was "a diving catch, a
Hail Mary pass, betting the farm," but Trump made the gamble work.
The SEC lawsuit alleges that Kik's messaging app was failing and that one member of Kik's board of directors even described the plan to raise capital with an ICO as a "
hail Mary pass".
In American football, or hand-egg (as internet trolls would say), a
Hail Mary pass refers to a desperate last-ditch attempt to hurl the ball forward with the hope that something, if anything, happens.
"This is not a
Hail Mary pass for salvation of the church [as an] institution," she cautions.
Milan Vaishnav, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of a recent book on Indian politics, called the step "an 11th-hour
Hail Mary pass" by the BJP.
When other groups joined them, the EPRDF seems to have panicked, thrown a
Hail Mary pass and picked Abiy.
That was the game we won in the last second there,
Hail Mary pass. Two Catholics connected on a Hail Mary at a Mormon school to win the game."
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Hail Mary pass?: Moore offers bad advice to schools on football prayer
The Chicago Bears will rue the dropped passes as they lost to the New England Patriots by a single yard, yes a yard after a last minute
hail mary pass was thrown and caught at the one-yard line with time running out.
Both, however, are akin to a long-shot
Hail Mary pass. The manufacturing plants have been closed since 2009.
He had one final chance force overtime as the clock expired but his
Hail Mary pass was knocked down at the goal line to send Eagles fans wild.
He had one final chance to force overtime as the clock expired but his
Hail Mary pass was knocked down at the goal line to send Eagles fans wild.
For GNC--which lost its CEO in July, suffered an 8.9 percent same-store sales dip in third quarter, and watched its stock slide 65 percent last year--this Super Bowl ad will be the marketing equivalent of a
Hail Mary pass, not unlike struggling RadioShack's entertaining 2014 spot that tried (and failed) to reinvigorate the brand.
PLEASANT HILL - Wyatt Craig completed a 45-yard
Hail Mary pass to Bryson McDonald with two seconds remaining to give Plesant Hill a 41-40 win over LaPine on Friday night in a Mountain Valley Conference game.
My '
Hail Mary pass' would be that this contest will shake things up enough that politicians will work together, at least for a while, to deal with entrenched problems.