"After the last-minute attacks are forgotten, doesn't it really come down to who is going to fight for the people of this city?"

"It wasn't fair, not right," Mr. Brown said of the last-minute attack, a tactic he has not been above using himself.

To this day, Ms. Ferraro believes that she lost the 1992 Senate primary only because of last-minute attacks on her ethics by her Democratic opponents.

Instead, Mr. Kerry wound up losing, after badly misjudging the impact of last-minute attacks by his opponent and the hostile local newspaper.

The second surprise came when Ensign Garber had a last-minute attack of nerves and decided that the juggling act just wasn't going to work.

Gomez got a last-minute attack of cold feet at the sight of her.

As the cattle are being driven aboard, Gwion leads Cadwaladr's supporters in a last-minute attack.

They backed out of the room slowly, as if on guard for some last-minute attack.

George Bush's last-minute attacks on "gloom and doom" people just confirmed how out of touch he was.

He credited the last-minute attacks on Crane and Ishmael-the conspiracy theory-for his success.