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to the last

  1. To the end, especially to the end of one's life. For example, The defenders held out to the last but the bombs finished them. [c. 1600]



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In a statement confirming he had been identified and his remains returned to his family, Netanyahu's office said "we will not compromise ... and will spare no effort until we return all of the fallen abductees, down to the last one".

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He's obviously fighting against a superior car, which is the McLaren, but if it comes to the last race or whatever and they are tight on points, maybe in that moment he becomes the man to follow.

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Stretching from 1967 until the present day, Scorsese’s story provides a timeline of modern American cinema — the rise and fall of independent filmmaking, the historic and now-waning power of critics, the game-changing impact of cinematic violence with “Taxi Driver” and the burgeoning power of the religious right in its reaction to “The Last Temptation of Christ.”

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The Azzurri are desperate to qualify for the World Cup having failed to make it to the last two editions.

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Indeed, outside of some second-tier honours, you had to go back 40 years to the last time the Robins reigned supreme.

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