The North's
eleventh-hour decision to allow the South Koreans to join came just after Trump met South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Washington to try to keep the Kim-Trump summit from going off the rails.
Philippe Dauman's
eleventh-hour decision to skip Sun Valley robbed attendees of an awkward encounter between the Viacom CEO and Shari Redstone, who is pushing for his ouster.
The UK Government announced additional money months ago to allow the English NHS to plan for winter pressures, in contrast to this
eleventh-hour decision by Labour at the height of winter.
And the Saudis were bitterly disappointed by Obama's
eleventh-hour decision last year to back down from military action against Syria over chemical weapons attacks.
Writing in Hretz Bradley Burston, its senior editor, stated, "In his
eleventh-hour decision against attending the funeral of Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Netanyahu proved that he is not the smug, petty, vindictive, waffling, in-your-face insulting man he seems.
Certainly seems like a strange description to describe an essentially
eleventh-hour decision to hop aboard a train that was just about to leave the station, with some 70 senators aboard.
The
eleventh-hour decision to put off the signing came after the ruling Saenuri Party asked the government to allow the parliament to review the accord, citing negative public opinion and procedural controversies.
The board's decision regarding Lariviere's contract has the feel of a petulant,
eleventh-hour decision of a lame duck executive board.
The
eleventh-hour decision meant that, on Saturday, Stephanie could finally marry her childhood sweetheart Gavin Derrick at the same church in which her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother all tied the knot.
The 27 will be coming to an
eleventh-hour decision for or against the listing of bluefin tuna in Annex I of the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which enumerates the species in which trade is banned.
The Chancellor's
eleventh-hour decision to cut the planned 5% increase in business rates to 2% added to the cheer, coming as a welcome reprieve for beleaguered retail firms.
While a natural, no-calorie sweetener sounds like manna from heaven, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a Washington, D.C.-based consumer advocacy group, says the approval was an
eleventh-hour decision and is calling on the Obama administration to change the law that allows ingredients to be classified as GRAS without rigorous testing.
Barclay's made an
eleventh-hour decision to pull the plug on a deal that would have seen Gigi's reverse into Park Cafe, a chain of 27 upmarket restaurant bars.